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November 14, 2009
Follow-up on Violence From Ratner Mall
The ESDC's blight study used to justify eminent domain for the proposed Atlantic Yards project claimed a high crime rate for the area, but most of it occurs in Bruce Ratner's malls adjacent to the site. A promotional event gone out of control this past week served to emphasize this point.
The Local - Buffalo Wings Exec: ‘It Was the Perfect Storm’
The Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant at the Atlantic Terminal mall had been trying for three weeks to address growing crowds of kids coming out for the Tuesday night 50-cent wings special, a top executive said in a telephone interview today.
But a confluence of forces — the restaurant’s location in a major transportation hub, the ability of social networking to rally people, and the interest of a large number of kids wanting to gather on the night before a school holiday — all combined to set the stage for the violence that broke out later that night in nearby Fort Greene, he said.
The Brooklyn Paper - Shooting ends chicken wing gravy train at Buffalo Wild Wings
By Stephen Brown
Buffalo Wild Wings has plucked the feathers off its weekly cheap wings promotion after hordes of rowdy students descended on the sports bar, resulting in two separate shooting incidents on Tuesday night.
The three teens caught in the crossfire were not seriously injured, but that did not stop some local leaders from calling for a crackdown on the spicy appetizer emporium inside the Atlantic Terminal Mall.
Councilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort Greene) pointed the finger at the management of the sports bar for recklessly promoting its 50-cent “Wing Tuesdays” to students.
“I want this Tuesday restaurant promotion stopped, or the lease of this business revoked,” James said.
Posted by steve at November 14, 2009 6:56 AM