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June 16, 2007
Hypocrisy in Brooklyn: Bill and Marty
The Daily Gotham
Bill [de Blasio] is one of Ratner's biggest cheerleaders. He fully supports Ratner's project that will abuse eminent domain to uproot an entire chunk of Brooklyn that was once called "up and coming" to replace it with a giant monstrosity which will suck a huge amount of taxpayer's money from the state and local levels and won't really deliver affordable housing...or at least not housing that is considered affordable even by the definition used in Manhattan.Fine. Bill supports something I don't. We agree to disagree on much of it.
Now Bill turns around and suddenly plays community activist against an evil developer. As reported in the Park Slope Courier, Ratner's biggest cheerleader on the City Council is playing his own NIMBY game with a different developer.
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Ummm...I got news for you Bill. Ratner is worse. Ratner's plan is far larger, goes BEYOND being inappropriate for the community and simply uproots a community, and has proven that the only interest Ratner has in the community is to squeeze it for $100 million to buy the land for a project he is far too lazy, or devious, to provide a business plan for.
Posted by amy at June 16, 2007 10:29 AM