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April 28, 2010
Greetings from Scott Turner: Let’s Start Not Forgetting
via Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn
Scott Turner is flying from Seattle (where he recently moved) for Friday night’s closing party for Freddy’s. It’s like meeting someone at a funeral: great to see you, sorry it had to be for this.
Hi, all…
I’m a long way away — in a land where the daytime high in the mid-50s was swell in February and a drag in mid April. A land where bike riders think they’re Lance Armstrong, where it doesn’t rain as much as New York. A land where I can see and hear freight trains, cargo ships and landing planes out my front window. A land where here, too, a dumb-ass government has spent years shoving a rich-person’s development project down everyone’s throats.
…a land not too far to grieve over the passing of Freddy’s Bar & Backroom.
That would be this Friday, April 30, at the corner of Dean Street and Sixth Avenue — the future site of not a school, not a health clinic, not an AIDS or cancer research center, not a job-training facility, not an emerging small business, not an artists’ colony, not a community center, not one stitch of affordable housing, not open space or green space or free space or peoples’ space. The future site of some ancillary structure connected to a Russian oligarch’s basketball team’s arena.
Posted by eric at April 28, 2010 11:22 AM