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October 24, 2008
Brooklyn's Top 50 Most Influential No. 11 - 20
Brownstoner
Grabbing the #11 spot on the Bstoner most-influential list is Atlantic Yards Cheerleader in Chief Marty Markowitz. The thin-skinned Borough President is probably still pouting about not making the top ten, though yesterday's City Council vote to extend term limits may have bucked him up a bit:
11. The Atlantic Yards arena and high-rise mega-project has two daddies: Developer Bruce Ratner and Borough President Marty Markowitz. The exact circumstances surrounding the project's conception are murky, and for a while the comedic Beep seemed to favor an NBA arena in Coney Island, but most reports agree that Markowitz did press Ratner to carry out his dream of bringing professional sports to Brooklyn. Besides Atlantic Yards, endlessly espousing every virtue of our fair borough, and throwing his weight behind most major development projects (one exception is Thor Equities' competing vision for Coney Island), Markowitz has been influential in promoting tourism here, and likes to take credit for landing Brooklyn in Lonely Planet's list of must-see world destinations. He is also responsible for all those catchy signs with Brooklyn slogans at every bridge leading into the borough.
Click here for the rest of yesterday's list.
Posted by lumi at October 24, 2008 4:25 AM