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March 15, 2010
You can't make this stuff up -- Atlantic Yards edition
NY Daily News
by Elizabeth Benjamin
Hard to believe, but this one somehow eluded our grasp last week.
Jay-Z is an investor in the project, but his wife Beyonce seemed to stir up the most interest from the crowd. Rev. Al Sharpton said he wished he were seated next to her -- but Markowitz brought his own special brand of game as he introduced Jay-Z:
"Just last week I had the extreme pleasure -- the extreme pleasure -- of meeting his lovely and altruistic wife Beyonce at the opening of her new cosmetology school," he said, before taking out two 8x10 photos and waving them to the crowd.
"I have to tell you, Jay, I think she really liked me. In fact, here's proof! This is how we met. (top photo) But now let me show you the other picture! (bottom photo) Yes, Jay, that's your wife giving me a kiss -- giving me a kiss on my right cheek, and I haven't touched it since then."
The crowd was roaring, but Jay-Z wasn't smiling. Markowitz tried to hand the rapper the kissing photo; Jay-Z looked at it like it was Problem #100, then took it and placed it upside-down on the podium. Markowitz kept going:
"It's obvious she likes Brooklyn guys, we know that. And I really believe that if I had met her before you, I woulda been a contender."
NoLandGrab: [Cringe.]
Posted by eric at March 15, 2010 1:50 PM