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October 30, 2008
Ratner no king for queens
The Brooklyn Papers
By Sarah Portlock
Here's the story of one community group that didn't suck up to Ratner:
Brooklyn’s gay community is moving forward with a plan to create a community center in or near Downtown, even without promised space from developer Ratner.
Last year, Ratner and Borough President Markowitz had discussed providing space for the “Brooklyn Pride Community Center” in a Ratner-owned building Downtown, but the Lambda Independent Democrats, a gay political group, had a falling out with the Atlantic Yards developer and his chief cheerleader over suspicion that gays would need to support the mega-project in exchange for getting the community center.
Now, organizers of the pride center are moving full-steam ahead without Ratner.
Posted by lumi at October 30, 2008 4:26 AM