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March 20, 2008
Yards foes to picket Ratner
The Brooklyn Paper
by Dana Rubinstein
Atlantic Yards opponents — some of them Brooklyn Museum members — will picket the Museum’s April 3 gala to protest the institution’s decision to honor developer Bruce Ratner.
“Honoring Ratner is entirely inappropriate,” said Michael White, a Brooklyn Heights–based urban planner, Museum member and Yards opponent.
“Part of the job of public institutions with non-profit status like the Brooklyn Museum is to be a good neighbor,” said White. “You don’t accomplish that by honoring someone who has been a bad neighbor.”
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“We’re not against the museum accepting money from Bruce Ratner, but we do have a big problem with the museum honoring and celebrating Bruce Ratner,” said Daniel Goldstein, spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, which is helping organize the protest.
Posted by eric at March 20, 2008 11:17 PM