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September 24, 2010
Gentrifier Rick Moody Drops F-Bomb on Atlantic Yards
NY Observer
by Matt Chaban
The only thing hated more by writers than their editors—at least within Brooklyn's sprawling literary scene—is Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards development. Jonathan Lethem is the movement's de facto leader, but Jennifer Egan, Chris Smith, Philip Lopate and even Jimmy Breslin (sorta) are among those who have lifted their pens in protest. Now none other than Rick Moody has made his displeasure known—not that it's going to stop this thing—in an aside for one of TONY's weekly Own This City neighborhood guides about his beloved Prospect Heights, which sits on the Atlantic Yards border.
NoLandGrab: "Not that it's going to stop this thing?" Au contraire, Matt Chaban. Don't discount the China Syndrome.
Posted by eric at September 24, 2010 12:21 PM