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April 27, 2007
Who put the Rat in Ratnerville?
By chance, Atlantic Yards had its own mascot yesterday (with sidekick Ratner VP Bruce Bender on the far left). The irony was noted by a couple of commenters in other blogs that posted photos from the site of yesterday's collapse, and earned its own special post in Curbed.
The Rat was in front of Henry Weinstein's building, currently leased by developer Shaya Boymelgreen, who is being stalked by the unions all over Brooklyn for his use of non-union labor.
What's particularly bizarre is that The Rat is parked in front of the same building that Boymelgreen tried to lease out to Bruce Ratner, who, despite Weinstein's protestations and a pending lawsuit, repeatedly claimed he controlled. Earlier this year, a judge sided with Weinstein and the deal between Boymelgreen and Ratner was voided, returning "control" of the property to Weinstein, who has since joined the federal eminent domain lawsuit.
If Boymelgreen (the anti-Christ of the local trade unions) had succeeded, then Ratner (the patron saint of the local unions) would have had Weinstein in a headlock.
Posted by lumi at April 27, 2007 10:50 AM