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January 22, 2008
Our Condolences
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn on the death of Heath Ledger:
We offer our condolences to all of Heath Ledger's loved ones. Our heart goes out to his young daughter. His passing is very sad news.
Heath was a member of our Advisory Board. He was not afraid to speak out against the entrenched power and corporate back room deals that the Atlantic Yards represents. He felt passionately that this project was wrong for Brooklyn. DDDB thanks him and celebrates his life.
We are grateful that Heath chose to contribute to our efforts, and hope to honor his memory through our ongoing work.
Gawker, The NY Press and amNY mentioned Ledger's stance against Atlantic Yards in their obits in reference to his relationship to actress Michelle Williams and his life in Brooklyn:
In Brooklyn, with fiancee Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger became a Hollywood actor that the more sensitive among us could love, or at least tolerate. Why? Well, he lived in Brooklyn, wasn't afraid to kiss a dude in Brokeback Mountain, and showed us all that achieving (temporary, at least) domestic happiness was indeed possible. He and Williams went to community meetings to protest the Atlantic Yards development, hung out in the same places the rest of the parents in their neighborhood, took their kid to Prospect Park, and just generally behaved like normal people.
After Michelle Williams left Ledger, he seemed to drift from the public eye for awhile after being quite vocal in protesting the Ratner Atlantic Yards development. But we chalked it up to being depressed and alone, and it fit that moody artist stereotype.
New York a big part of Heath Ledger
Ledger maintained a low-key lifestyle in the borough but joined an advisory board for Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn in 2006. The group opposed developer Bruce Ratner's plan to build a New Jersey Nets stadium in Prospect Heights.
Posted by lumi at January 22, 2008 9:22 PM