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July 25, 2007
Mid-Summer Classic
Fans For Fair Play
We present the Fans For Fair Play Mid-Season Classic, one of our classic, patented bulleted lists. It's suitable for readers with short attention spans (the bulleted points are short) or long attention spans (this thing could go on forever!):
- Atlantic Yards is mired in federal and state court.
- Barclays, who paid $400M for the naming rights to the arena, is still making Brooklynites cringe.
- Our overdeveloper overpays (again) for an aging franchise player, but no worries taxpayers still get to overpay for Atlantic Yards.
- Ratner re-signed head coach Lawrence Frank, ensuring that Nets fans will get more of the same as the lame duck franchise eyes a move to Brooklyn,
- When all the professional sports scandals makes the NHL look like a bunch of girl scouts, why does hero worship and civic pride in having a hometeam even matter?
- Long live the Community Bookstore, the likes of which you never see in a Ratner mall.
- When the trough of available funding for affordable housing in NYC can't cover eligible projects even before Atlantic Yards cuts the line, shouldn't ACORN's Bertha Lewis have something to say?
- And, what's up with Hakeem Jeffries? Can a fence-sitting politician really do the right thing, sometimes?
Posted by lumi at July 25, 2007 9:14 AM