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February 7, 2008
Real Estate Round-Up
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
This week's Round-Up notes the strange claim by Forest City Ratner that Frank Gehry is a Brooklyn native.
Forest City Ratner’s attorney may be trying to help the company change the future of Brooklyn, but he is also changing the past, according to the AtlanticYardsReport blog. The blog reported that in the case challenging an environmental review of the Atlantic Yards project, pre-appeals papers prepared by Ratner attorney Jeffrey Braun falsely claim project designer Frank Gehry to be a “Brooklyn native.” According to the blog, the line reads: “The project is being designed by Frank Gehry, a California-based Brooklyn native who is one of the preeminent American architects of our era.” By all other accounts, Gehry was born in Toronto, Canada, and now resides in Los Angeles, Calif.
The blog allows the mistake to be just that: an innocent mistake, which it probably is.
Posted by steve at February 7, 2008 5:19 AM