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June 15, 2007
THE WORST OF 'TIMES'
NY Post
By Steve Cuozzo
A Post columnist takes the Gray Lady to task for its Lower Manhattan real estate coverage, and wonders if stifling the competition had anything to do with the culture of gloom. It might, when your business partner, Bruce Ratner, has 28 floors to fill:
Today, of course, companies and residents are moving into lower Manhattan as fast as new buildings can open their doors. Stores and restaurants are clamoring to join the rush.
No thanks to the Times. But what prompted its effort to finish off downtown for good?
Just maybe an institutional wish to stifle competition for the top half of the Times Co.'s new Eighth Avenue headquarters, where its development partner, Bruce Ratner, had 27 floors to fill.
Only when Ratner began landing tenants did the Times finally start covering Ground Zero more responsibly.
NoLandGrab: At the very least, as in the case of the Times's Atlantic Yards coverage, it requires that the paper cover the issue more "responsibly."
Posted by lumi at June 15, 2007 6:54 AM