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October 9, 2009
And from the mailbag...
The Brooklyn Paper, Letters
To the editor,
I saw your cover story on the Russian billionaire who bought the Nets (“Shooting Tsar,” Sept. 25) and thought this: The class war continues — billionaire developer, billionaire mayor, and billionaire oligarch against the poor and middle class of Brownstone Brooklyn.
Robert Ohlerking, Park Slope
To the editor,
So this tall Russian has theoretically bought into the Flatbush Avenue failure. The interesting thing is that once again, Ratner is playing with other people’s money. This moneybags however, may prove to be more gas than substance. Just because he is living large, doesn’t mean he is a legitimate investor. Have we forgotten how respectable Bernie Madoff looked just two years ago?
And the bottom line is that this is still a stunningly ugly project that, if built, would bring unmanageable crowds to an already constipated traffic grid. How this overblown nonsense is supposed to help Brooklyn’s economy needs much explanation.
Barbara Charton, Brooklyn Heights
Plus one from the online mailbox:
I’m very disappointed in the Brooklyn Paper. I started reading your paper a few years ago when your coverage of Atlantic Yards was fresh and incisive. With this endorsement, I can only guess that corporate pressure from above has caused you to jettison all pretense at journalistic integrity. Sad.
R, Fort Greene
Posted by eric at October 9, 2009 10:23 AM