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May 6, 2008
Atlantic Yards Rally Urges for Time Out
GlobeSt.com
by Natalie Dolce
Real estate web site GlobeSt.com covers the recent developments in the battle over Atlantic Yards, including a rather outlandish claim about the size of the Forest City Ratner-orchestrated counter-demonstration.
Developer Bruce Ratner says the Atlantic Yards project is moving forward--and he's vowing to break ground on a basketball arena this year. On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of people came together both to support and to protest the $4-billion project. A Forest City Ratner Cos. spokesperson tells GlobeSt.com that "we had about a three to one ratio, at least, of people in support to those opposed."
NoLandGrab: Opponents of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project are quite used to the developer's obfuscations and prevarications, so it's no surprise that the company's spinmeisters would claim vast superiority in the number of protesters; neutral observers estimated that the respective crowds were much closer in size. And if you were to subtract those "supporters" who stand to benefit financially from the project, you might get an altogether different ratio.
Posted by eric at May 6, 2008 3:57 PM