'Angry' Anti-Ratner Protest at the Brooklyn Museum
Between 80 and 100 people showed up to a Develop Don’t Destroy-organized protest outside the Brooklyn Museum last night, according to Atlantic Yards Report, to publicly decry the cultural institution’s decision to honor Bruce Ratner at a gala. AY Report’s Norman Oder says the protest “was notably angry,” with some in the crowd holding up…
Between 80 and 100 people showed up to a Develop Don’t Destroy-organized protest outside the Brooklyn Museum last night, according to Atlantic Yards Report, to publicly decry the cultural institution’s decision to honor Bruce Ratner at a gala. AY Report’s Norman Oder says the protest “was notably angry,” with some in the crowd holding up signs that said things like “Ratner is a liar” or calling the developer a “con artist” or proclaiming Atlantic Yards a “dung deal.” In a separate post, Oder notes that the Forest City Ratner Companies Foundation gave the museum $100,000 in 2005 and another $100,000 in 2006; the foundation’s donations from last year have not yet been disclosed. The gala last night cost from $500 to $1000+ a plate.
“Shame!” Crowd Outside Museum Shouts “Ratner’s Bad for Brooklyn” {AY Report]
Photo by Brit in Brooklyn.
4:13,
Community opinion is determined by elections?
Hahahaha.
George W. Bush is president of the U.S. of A.
And by the way, New York’s constitution does not provide for ballot initiatives, cretin.
4:13, you ignorant “looser.” What’s a “looser?”
two fucking loosers with vampire sign,go back to NORTH DAKOTA
4:02 – community opinion is not determined by your unscientific, non-random sampling poll – it is determined by elections.
You are against ED, you are against tall buildings, you are against density – fine- organize, run some candidates or get a ballot initiative and see what the community feels and to what extent.
But a few dozen people holding up signs does not make “the community” oh and I didnt call anyone old, trust funders or yuppies – I called you NIMBYS; anti-everything and bad for the enviroment,economy and anyone trying to find affordable housing.
I wish the people insulting those who are not in favor of this project would make up their minds. Sometimes we are trust fund kids. Sometimes we are yuppies. Now we are old people. Why don’t you just call us what we are – the community. A year or so ago, when Ratner’s promises were new and shiny a group did a survey of people walking around the neighborhood on Vandy. We asked them if they lived here and if they did asked them about AY. We polled everyone walking down the street who would stop (we wanted to finish our quota). Virtually everyone I spoke to was against the project. Maybe one or two favored it, but everyone else was against it or had strong reservations. So no, the community doesn’t favor the project.
I want to build a hospital on your apartment and I have the funds to do it, so since that is for the public good, can I have your place? Will you selflessly please finally show your identity so I can do this?
Please?
Will you pay me 1.5x-2x the fair market value? – if so, its all yours….
God I hope they build this just to shut all these whiney NIMBY’s up. I know all you wealthy housewives already own your nice Prak Slope brownstones (or your husbands do, rather) but to the rest of us these projects put more units on the market and the more units of housing the more affordable it will be for people who would like to own.
You cant be so naive as to think that there is anything so unique to Emminent Domain that takes it out of the realm of decisions that we as a society give to others ALL THE TIME. So yes collectively it seems that we have determined that paying a handful of people more then fair compensation and making them move, so that 2.5M people can have a world class entertainment venue, new housing and office space and the covering of a ugly eyesore – is a fair trade-off.
Yes you are right, I can’t be so naive.
But can you be this Naive?
When the NIMBYs actually can show through elections and/or referendums that society/”the community” thinks it isnt fair – then and only then would I feel that it is “wrong” to “take” someone’s home under these circumstances –
Why don’t you start a NIMBY HATER meet up group?
I want to build a hospital on your apartment and I have the funds to do it, so since that is for the public good, can I have your place? Will you selflessly please finally show your identity so I can do this?
Please?
So I guess you are really standing for the VERY important travesty of counterfeiting and the visionary, Ghandi like behavior of these “NIMBY” types below.
These are going to be your neighbors…have fun.
Radar Online
The Brooklyn Museum’s curators might want to take inventory today.
Without a doubt, the person who got the most out of Thursday night’s Takashi Murakami retrospective opening at the Brooklyn Museum of Art was Jamie Snow, the wife of Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz. She grabbed eight of the limited-addition Murakami technicolor fiberglass place mats that were being given out as gifts to party-goers—mats that fetched up to $1,000 on eBay after similar events. And she was wasn’t about to give even one of them up.
Hundreds of wealthy Manhattanites braved the light drizzle by taking hired towncars out to the Brooklyn art museum for the multi-tiered extravaganza. Some were there in honor of bulldozing developer Bruce Ratner, who was being given an award by the museum for donating lots of monies. (The gaggle outside protesting his Atlantic Yards project probably disagree with the museum’s selection.) Some were there for the opening of the gigantic Murakami exhibit, which also includs a full-service Louis Vuitton store (Murakami-designed “Monogramouflage” handbags are $1,500 and up). Some were there to see Kanye West perform and check out Marc Jacobs’ “performance art” installation, in which Jacobs sought to bring attention “to the serious issue of counterfeiting” by setting up a fake Canal Street stall. Still others were there to eat food catered by Nobu, drink a lot of wine, and hoard swag.
Snow was in the last category.
The mats were intended to be taken by seated guests, but after wolfing down dinner, the enterprising Snow, perhaps sensing a business opportunity, rounded up eight of the mats and rushed over to Murakami to have them signed. When party-goers who ended up placemat-less asked her if she would kindly relinquish one, Snow snidely remarked, “You guys really should have acted faster. This is Brooklyn,” and skulked away.
I promise to stop going to the Brooklyn Museum from today.