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January 9, 2009
A Letter to the Editor of the Newark Star-Ledger
Atlantic Yards Report
The Star-Ledger prints a letter to the editor from Norman Oder, which sets down the more modest facts of Norman Oder's initial encounter with Brett Yormark, who at the time was boning up on Brooklyn to try to impress then-prospective employer Bruce Ratner:
The article claims that Yormark "hired a tour guide for a fairly large sum." Yormark's memory is faulty. The sum was about $100 and we spent less than two hours; he didn't have the time to get out of his vehicle, for example, to see Prospect Park.
At that time, the Atlantic Yards project had not gone through any public evaluation, and I knew relatively little about it. Yormark's certainty that the project would be officially approved helped provoke me into later launching a watchdog blog about it.
NoLandGrab: What we love about Brett Yormark is that the guy is larger than life: he hired Norman Oder for "9-10 hours," he works 18-hour days, etc. We'll grant Yormark true superhero status when he can rub two of Ratner's dimes together to make twenty cents.
Posted by lumi at January 9, 2009 5:15 AM