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March 18, 2007
Two Veterans of Bad Old Days in Brooklyn
NY Times
STEPHEN P. WILLIAMS
LITTLE BUDDY, a k a Jack Solomita, age 3, stood on a dining room chair and swung a blue and green key chain decorated with a logo for the still-a-dream Brooklyn Nets basketball team. His father, Pete Solomita, a chef who bakes cookies at home for his Little Buddy Biscuit Company, winced.“He loves that key chain,” said Mr. Solomita, 49, looking around the ground floor of his family’s three-story brick town house on 16th Street in South Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Jack didn’t yet understand that his parents are not as enthusiastic about Forest City Ratner’s plans to build rental apartments and condominiums, office towers, a hotel and a sports arena for the Nets in Brooklyn.
Mr. Solomita and his wife, Jill Vinitsky, 47, are both from Long Island, but they have each lived in long-neglected South Brooklyn for decades. While they aren’t against development, per se, they contend that too much thoughtless building is going on in the borough.
Posted by amy at March 18, 2007 3:16 PM