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September 24, 2012
Yet One More Bald-Faced Lie From Bruce Ratner
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
The NY Times' article, "In Brooklyn, Bracing for Hurricane Barclays" has an accompanying slideshow, which includes a photo of Bruce Ratner in his arena with this caption:
Bruce C. Ratner, the chairman and chief executive of Forest City Ratner Companies, which built the New York Times' Midtown headquarters, is proud of the arena. "We have changed the landscape, we will have created a beautiful work of art, and created a place for entertainment and sports that will be wonderful for generations," he said. "Our biggest critics complained that the arena wasn't built. Now that the arena is done, they switched to something else."
Mr. Ratner must think we are all idiots, because that is an absurd, bald-faced lie.
Our biggest complaint is that his project is a corrupt land grab. And the fact that many community organizations (not including the ones that partnered with Ratner in the bogus Community Benefits Agreement) are attempting to hold him accountable for the broken promises of 10,000 permanent jobs and 2,250 affordable housing units.
We can assure Bruce that one complaint he's never heard from us is that the arena wasn't built. Quite the opposite.
NoLandGrab: "The delirious Bruce Ratner."
Posted by eric at September 24, 2012 1:44 PM