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March 23, 2008
Ratner’s lies
The Brooklyn Paper, letter to the editor from Michael D.D. White, Brooklyn Heights
Forest City Ratner will not correct misrepresentations on its Atlantic Yards website unless hounded to be truthful (“Another Ratner lie! Gehry was NOT ‘born in Brooklyn,’” March 15).The Gehry misrepresentation is a case in point.
The Web site also still misrepresents that the mega-development will be “primarily situated over the MTA/LIRR’s Vanderbilt Rail Yards.” In fact, only 40 percent of the mega-development is over the rail yards.
Lost in this misrepresentation is any acknowledgment that additional acreage is being taken through gratuitous eminent domain abuse that allows Ratner to seize control of what will be.
FCR leaves misrepresentations on its Web site because it benefits them when press-release-reading “journalists” promulgate the inaccurate stories.
Witness the way the New York Times has misreported and then failed to make its own corrections.
Posted by amy at March 23, 2008 1:44 PM