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September 1, 2008
FCR's Russian outreach: "Everything is Better in Brooklyn"
Atlantic Yards Report
No, Forest City Ratner isn't trying to make nice with the increasingly restless Russian bear — they're just letting our Russian-speaking friends in the borough know that "Everything is Better in Brooklyn."
At the Brighton Jubilee on August 24, Forest City Ratner's booth distributed bilingual Russian/English fliers (below; click to enlarge) touting the Atlantic Yards project, including 15,000 union construction jobs (that's actually job-years, and it's hardly clear that will "mean jobs for Brooklynites") and 38% affordable housing (without acknowledging how long that might take or who exactly might be eligible).
NoLandGrab: Things in Brooklyn would be downright peachy if Forest City would just fold the Atlantic Yards tent and go home.
Posted by eric at September 1, 2008 11:31 AM