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April 8, 2008
Marty Markowitz's Wife Hogs Swag at Murakami Gala
Gothamist
Sheesh! Who knew that at last week's Brooklyn Ball honoring Bruce Ratner, the Atlantic Yards overdeveloper would be the classy one?
Gothamist sums up the Radar Online and NY Daily News coverage of the Brooklyn's First "Lady's" boondoggle:
Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner wasn’t the only one causing controversy at the Brooklyn Museum’s gala celebration for the Takashi Murakami retrospective last Thursday night. Some attendees say Jamie Snow, wife of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, was rather boorish in her accumulation of freebies at the event.
Snow grabbed eight of the limited-edition placemats, and when those left empty-handed complained:
According to Radar, she had little sympathy: "You guys really should have acted faster. This is Brooklyn!” Other placemat pleas reportedly elicited responses such as, “You snooze, you lose, buddy. Forget it.” And when her husband, the borough president, was asked to intervene, he responded with a shrug: “Just try being married to her.”
What do the truth and pregnancy have in common? According to the Borough President's wife, you can have a "little" of it.
The Daily News confirmed the contretemps with Snow, who admitted it was “a little true.” So Marty Markowitz has vowed to sell the placemats to raise funds for Camp Brooklyn, a program that sends low-income kids to camp. "She didn't steal, she didn't thieve, she didn't take from anyone else," Markowitz told the News.
Posted by lumi at April 8, 2008 4:46 AM