Ratner Tight-Lipped on AY Details

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In an interview with Crain's, Bruce Ratner is guarded about the shape of things to come for Atlantic Yards, refusing to talk about the development's timeline or when/whether it will include office towers. Ratner also declines to share current designs for AY, saying, “This isn't a public project. We will follow the guidelines.” Develop Don't Destroy quickly published a rebuttal to Ratner's statement, saying, "Presumably this means he'll return all the public money he has gotten and is supposed to get and renounce eminent domain for the project." Few new details about Atlantic Yards come to light in the profile, and it's perhaps most notable for Ratner's hell-or-high-water statements: He says he's "not nervous" about it happening and speaks with what AY Report calls "some not necessarily warranted optimism" when saying "we'll figure something out" if the Court of Appeals rules against the use of eminent domain.
Tenacious B [Crain's]
Crain's Calls Ratner "Tenacious;" Wouldn't "Desperate" and "Strategic" Also Apply? [AY Report]
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Cheap looking shoes.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at November 9, 2009 11:16 AM

I think he went to the DSW right before the photo shoot.

Posted by: Brokedeveloper at November 9, 2009 11:23 AM

HAHA! They are! I wear cheap shoes too... but my net worth is less than his suit (even if it's a cheap suit from Men's Warehouse) I do, however, buy my shirts from Brook's Brothers.

Posted by: tybur6 at November 9, 2009 11:26 AM

Bruce has "FU" money. He can wear any damn shoe he pleases.

Posted by: benson at November 9, 2009 11:27 AM

FU = Felonious Underhanded?

Posted by: DitmasSnark at November 9, 2009 11:35 AM

Sensible shoes for a sensible gentleman.

Posted by: BSD at November 9, 2009 11:53 AM

Shoes are "SK"s for walking through deep doo-doo.

Posted by: Arkady at November 9, 2009 12:16 PM

Marty Markowitz needs to be thrown out on his ear. He and his creepy rich developer buddies are turning Brooklyn into a place that looks like the blandest and ugliest parts of rest of the country, complete with strip malls, fast food slops and parking lots. Is there anyone out there with integrity to take on Markowitz/Ratner in the next primary? Please!

Posted by: Epiphany at November 9, 2009 12:19 PM

I don't recall seeing anyone else running for Boro Prez on the ballot...was I blind that day or did someone challenge him this year?

Posted by: InsertSnappyNameHere at November 9, 2009 12:29 PM

Ratner gets $50 mill in affordable housing money from New York taxpayers and buys a new Bentley. His ethics are disgusting, but he's got . . . well let's keep it clean and say chutzpah.

Posted by: Johnny at November 9, 2009 12:37 PM

Hmmmm;

Those shoes won't go with the Bentley.

Posted by: benson at November 9, 2009 12:39 PM

those are brooklyn slippers.
he keeps his expensive, clean shoes in the bentley.
duh.

Posted by: antidope at November 9, 2009 12:50 PM

I hope we see Ratner in Timbs next time.

Posted by: Kensingtonian at November 9, 2009 12:58 PM

quote:
He and his creepy rich developer buddies are turning Brooklyn into a place that looks like the blandest and ugliest parts of rest of the country, complete with strip malls, fast food slops and parking lots.

no, it's not him. it's the familes that move to brooklyn FROM the suburbs who bring that mentality here under the phoney guise of being new "urbanists".

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at November 9, 2009 1:34 PM

ROB- you are exactly right. the obnoxious 30 and 40 something families have flooded parts of brooklyn with their attitude. this is my first posting ever and i have to say that i agree with you just about all the time so keep up the good posts. you seem like the only cool one on this site. like yourself rob, i am the DE-GENTRIFIER of my neighborhood. ha!

Posted by: dieselfuel222 at November 9, 2009 1:56 PM

"no, it's not him. it's the familes that move to brooklyn FROM the suburbs who bring that mentality here under the phoney guise of being new "urbanists".

Well, even in their new familiar looking mall-like surroundings, after being stuck in traffic, ripped off in taxes, ripped off in rent, ripped off by the infamously sleazy NY realtors, ripped off at the grocery store, ripped off on the street and having atrocious public schools to consider (or spending a bunle on private schools), they'll probably consider packing it up, moving out of their insulated brownstone enclaves, and high tailing it out of NYC for good. It'll be especially unattractive if they live near AY and don't like litter on the street, rude drivers, horrific traffic, horns honking, bad air or The Nets.

Posted by: Epiphany at November 9, 2009 2:06 PM

To the tune of "Jolene" by Doly Parton:

"Ratner, Ratner, Ratner, Ratner
We’re begging of you please don’t take our yards
Ratner, Ratner, Ratner, Ratner
Please don’t take ‘em, why are you so hard?

Your power is beyond compare
With influence that makes us mad
And you’ll claim any land you can capture
You smile for all the press and blogs
Wave hi to all the powers that be
And we cannot compete with you, Ratner

We plot against you all our days
Spend money, time, tears ’til we fray
But all we read about is you, Ratner

And we can easily understand
How you can easily take that land
But you don’t know what it means to us, Ratner

Ratner, Ratner, Ratner, Ratner
We’re begging of you please don’t take our yards
Ratner, Ratner, Ratner, Ratner
Please don’t take ‘em, why are you so hard?

You could have your choice of land
But we will never move again
Here’s the only place for us, Ratner

We have to get this through to you
Brooklyn’ future depends on you
And whatever you decide to do, Ratner

Ratner, Ratner, Ratner, Ratner
We’re begging of you please don’t take our yards
Ratner, Ratner, Ratner, Ratner
Please don’t take ‘em, why are you so hard?"