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August 13, 2009
Anti-Bloomberg Group’s Newspaper Hits the Streets
The Indypendent
Note to Bruce Ratner: Your Atlantic Yards megaproject is on the short list of what's wrong with Mayor Bloomberg.
A new, free rag has hit the streets of our city, put together by a group calling itself the Fed Up New Yorkers Coalition (FUNY). Billing itself as “the best of NYC blogs about the worst of NYC politics,” the coalition boasts some impressive names: Nat Hentoff, a former writer for the Village Voice; Ira Glasser, the former national director for the American Civil Liberties Union; and John Scott, the downtown “club chair” for the Working Families Party. The founding member of the coalition is Neil Fabricant, who publishes BloombergWatch.com.
Their main line of attack is that “no third term means no third term,” although inside the paper you will find plenty of anti-Bloomberg screeds ranging from criticism on mayoral control of schools to his support for the massive development project known as Atlantic Yards.
Posted by lumi at August 13, 2009 4:44 AM