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September 24, 2012
Ratner and Prokhorov's Arena is Built for a Bank, Not Brooklyn
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Some of the press gets it. Barclays Center was built for a bank, a scandal ridden one at that, and one which Mark Jacobson describes thusly in his excellent NY Mag cover story, "The Nets are owned by a Russian oligarch and will play in an arena named for a bank (which reportedly paid $200 million for the naming rights) whose senior officials in France voluntarily handed over names of its Jewish employees to the Nazis, a hedge just in case the Germans won the war. Oh, yeah, let's go bang a thunderstick for them."
NoLandGrab: Yay, team?
Posted by eric at September 24, 2012 8:02 PM