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September 28, 2012
Ratner: “We’ve Kept Every Single Promise We’ve Ever Made”
NY Observer
by Kit Dillon
So Barclays Bruce Ratner told Charles Bagli today. In typical fashion, The Times scribe cut the Brooklyn developer down to size without so much as uttering a nasty word against him, as he has done to so many big builders and outsized egos over the years.
We could count the ways in which Mr. Ratner has broken his promises over the years, on jobs, housing, subsidies, timetables, architects… the list goes on and on, but we’ll leave that up to Norman Oder.
After all, Mr. Ratner qualifies his promises in the conditional, adding, “We’ve built the arena. They said we’d never build it. And I’m going to build the affordable housing.” Fair enough.
Better still, let’s let Mr. Bagli himself count the ways in which Mr. Ratner has snookered the city over the years. His writing is as understated as Mr. Ratner’s work is bombastic.
Posted by eric at September 28, 2012 12:04 AM