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September 12, 2012
Victory lap: in Bloomberg interview, Ratner calls arena "whole big good," claims "we've done a huge amount" to placate neighborhood
Atlantic Yards Report
Norman Oder dissects another insipid Bloomberg TV love-fest with Bruce Ratner.
Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner, speaking yesterday with Tom Keene, Sara Eisen and Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance," got the typical hero treatment from unskeptical business reporters.
Asked Keene, "What did you learn about NIMBY, not in my backyard?"
"Too much," responded a grinning Ratner. "When you live around a project and near a project of this size, it's likely that you will be opposed to it.... And it's understandable on one level. On the other, when you look at the whole big good, it's not understandable."
The "whole big good" that says the arena's a loser for the city, according to the Independent Budget Office?
NoLandGrab: Ah, we get it now. This isn't a real interview. It's a Second City spoof starring Eugene Levy.
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Posted by eric at September 12, 2012 11:45 AM