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April 11, 2007
Ian Schrager: Viewing Studio 54 From Age 60
The man who forever placed ‘boutique’ before ‘hotel’ talks about his High Line plans, Brooklyn dreams, and why he wouldn’t mind selling One Madison’s clock tower
The NY Observer
By Max Abelson
It's hard to imagine two developers whose personal styles are more unalike than Ian Schrager and Bruce Ratner, which is why we nearly fell off the chair when Schrager mentioned "you know who."
What Brooklyn neighborhood excites you most as a potential place to work?
Williamsburg, I suppose, or even downtown Brooklyn, where Bruce Ratner is doing a lot of work; around B.A.M. [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]—I have been asked to do a couple projects over there. I am thinking about it, but there is only so much you can do …. I haven’t been entertaining offers about doing anything in New Jersey yet, but I might if the right project came along.
NoLandGrab: Phew, we felt better after Schrager clarified "Downtown Brooklyn" to mean "around B.A.M.," because only Forest City Ratner executive Jim Stuckey seems to think that Brooklyn's hipness translates to Downtown Brooklyn, which is dominated by Bruce Ratner's hulking souless MetroTech office campus.
Posted by lumi at April 11, 2007 6:40 AM