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March 25, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere...
Queens Crap, Good government group crosses the line
QC follows up on recent criticism of sleeping watchdog Citizens Union.
No call for an investigation as to how Ratner got away with bidding less for the railyards than competitors an winning the bid? No outrage over eminent domain abuse? That's some 'good government' group.
Bleacher Report, New Jersey Nets Win, Forget Breaking Sixers Record
Before Bruce Ratner bought the team, this team was actually contending for the championships.
Ratner decided to strip the team when he realized no one in New Jersey cares about this franchise. Who can blame the people of New Jersey? There's no reason for them to root for a team that is heading to NY.
NoLandGrab: No, Ratner decided to strip the team before he bought it, knowing full well that the Nets meant nothing more to him than a front for a land grab.
LindaHua.net, DID SOMEONE WRITE F*CK WILL RATNER ON A STREET CONSTRUCTION SIGN?
Gained in (re)translation?
Less than dual weeks after New York genuine estate aristocrat Bruce Ratner and his buddies in the state and city governments hold their large groundbreaking rite for the Atlantic Yards boondoggle, an forward Brooklyn protester took counts in to his or her own hands this sunrise by hacking in to a single of the signs redirecting trade around the building a whole site. Photographic justification first, around Curbed (caution: contains bad language), afterwards a little contribution from the New York Daily News: Workers private the summary around 10 a.m., but not prior to hundreds of drivers and pedestrians upon the bustling frame saw it.
It’s misleading who was at the back of the vandalism, assumingly achieved by violation a close upon the sign’s carry out box.
Steve de Seve, a internal romantic at the back of multiform new anti-Yards stunts, pronounced he had zero to do with it—but combined which most people could be the culprit.
Posted by eric at March 25, 2010 10:38 AM