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September 25, 2007
NAY! (Not in Atlantic Yards)
Here's just the type of column that the Post never wrote about the astroturf coalition that Bruce Ratner assembled in support of Atlantic Yards. Can you blame Columbia University for taking a page out of Ratner's tried-and-true landgrabber playbook?
NY Post, COLUMBIA'S ASTROTURF
FAKING GRASSROOTS SUPPORT FOR EXPANSION PLAN
COLUMBIA University is making great efforts to pre vent community objections from derailing its plan for a massive expansion in West Harlem. But its methods seem to rely more on big-money power politics than on listening to the folks who live and work where the school wants to build.
At a meeting held last month by West Harlem's Community Board 9, for example, a good chunk of the school's "local supporters" looked to be patients from an East Harlem drug-rehab clinic.
Several people were outside handing out pamphlets castigating area business owner Nick Sprayregen, the expansion's most vocal critic. Visnja Vujica - a recent Barnard grad and member of the anti-expansion Student Coalition on Expansion & Gentrification - says she discovered that the pamphleteers were patients from East Harlem's Addicts Rehabilitation Center (ARC).
Posted by lumi at September 25, 2007 10:49 AM