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June 6, 2008
Ratner cooks up rally for Brooklyn project
NY Daily News
by Brooke Naylor, Ayala Falk and Melissa Grace
Scores of people turned out to support the controversial Atlantic Yards project on Thursday at a rally paid for by the developer.
As part of Brooklyn Day celebrations, Forest City Ratner handed out free hot dogs and T-shirts at Columbus Park near Borough Hall. The developer's $4.2 billion project in downtown Brooklyn includes offices, apartments and a basketball arena for the Nets.
"This is Brooklyn's future," Borough President Marty Markowitz said from the stage. "Nobody is going to hold it back, nobody. We deserve it."
The developer said 3,000 attended the rally, held on a day city public schools were closed.
NoLandGrab: Those kids look like they'd rather be in school than listening to speeches by the likes of Marty Markowitz.
Posted by eric at June 6, 2008 9:21 AM