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June 4, 2009
The Power 100: The Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate
An Observer List! Who Runs This Town?
NY Observer
The Observer has updated its list of the most powerful people in New York real estate, and Bruce Ratner's not half the titan he used to be.
No. 23: Bruce Ratner (2008: 8)
CEO of Forest City Ratner
He controls prime real estate in downtown Brooklyn and has two architecturally distinct new Manhattan towers, one unfinished. But his real test will be whether he can cobble together the money and political support to launch the project that has defined Forest City for the past half-decade: Atlantic Yards.
Here's the complete list.
Atlantic Yards Report, The Observer's Power 100: Ratner drops down the list; Gehry, Oder, Lipsky drop out
Norman Oder, no longer among the powerful, runs down the notables.
Last year, according to the New York Observer's quite arbitrary list of the 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate, Bruce Ratner was #8, Frank Gehry was #51, and I was number #77.
Things sure change. Ratner has dropped to #23 in The Power 100: The Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate, indicating uncertainty about Atlantic Yards, and Gehry and I have been dropped from the list--as has lobbyist Richard Lipsky, who snarked at my selection.
Well, Gehry appears to be off Atlantic Yards. And I sure can't be too powerful if elected officials holding an oversight hearing don't bother to consult the questions I've publicly posed.
Posted by eric at June 4, 2009 7:48 AM