Marty Axes CB6 Members Who Opposed AY Project
In a move likely to cloud his legacy as the Brooklyn’s biggest professional cheerleader, Borough President Marty Markowitz purged Community Board 6 yesterday of nine members, apparently as retribution for having voted against the proposed plan for the Atlantic Yards project back in September 2006. I’m rather disappointed. I think that it could have been…
In a move likely to cloud his legacy as the Brooklyn’s biggest professional cheerleader, Borough President Marty Markowitz purged Community Board 6 yesterday of nine members, apparently as retribution for having voted against the proposed plan for the Atlantic Yards project back in September 2006. I’m rather disappointed. I think that it could have been handled better and I think that I will continue to work for my community and the greater good of the community through the Community Board, Jerry Armer, who had served on CB6 for more than two decades, told the NY Observer. What we were doing was giving the community a voice and reflecting the community. Today on the Atlantic Yard Report, Norman Oder notes that Armer and other dismissed members purposefully did not align themselves with the most vocal opponents of the project. Instead, Oder notes, he “participated in numerous meetings of the Brooklyn Borough Board Atlantic Yards Committee, cordially raising some worthy questions…He spoke courteously, even ponderously, in testimony to the Empire State Development Corporation.” What an embarrassment.
Project’s Foes Shown Door in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Markowitz Purges Community Board 6 [NY Observer]
The Ironies of the CB 6 Purge [AY Report]
Arena Foes Slam Dunked [NY Post]
CB6 Letter, 9/29/06 [DDDB]
9:22,
Marty has “demonstrated his contempt for the people of Brooklyn”? Hardly. Remember that he has done many other things besides Atlantic Yards and once you leave the yuppie bubbles of Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, PLG, etc. Marty is beloved.
I concur with 9:28. I, too, would vote for Marty and I have faith that many other Brooklynites would, as well. You just won’t hear about it at the Tea Lounge.
Just hold on now, someone said that Brooklyn didn’t love the Dodgers. You can talk all the crap you want children, but don’t mess with the way we felt about our Dodgers. You weren’t alive at that time, and you have no idea how we felt. Brooklyn was wonderful back then. Just because you don’t know the history of our boro, don’t
distort the facts.
It is now said that seventy nine percent of the people who live in Brooklyn weren’t born in the borough. If you want to know what’s wrong with Brooklyn, I
would start there. I meet ex Brooklynites in my travels we all say the same thing, the boro has no heart.
Why would I want to live amongst the
disoriented.
I will vote for Marty Markowitz for mayor in a heartbeat! He is a man of business who thinks really well about what is best for the community in the long run. He reminds me alot of Bloomberg way of thinking. Just look where we are today. A sucessful NYC!
One thing for certain- Marty is one of those people who plays to the press. He loves the limelight and now that it has gone to his head he wants power. Didin’t I see somewhere he is thinking about running for Mayor? And there was a time I owuld have thought that was a good idea. Being borough president gets your press, not power. They’re basically figureheads, so think how puffed up with his own importance Marty feels today? And how clearly he has demonstrated his contempt for the people of Brooklyn by not just putting out the welcome and step all over us mat, but making such an obvious a**-kissing I am here for you Ratty move only proves what a sellout he has become. What an embarrassment to Brooklyn. To New York. And I know his press office combs the media for him- I hope they are reading this thread. They could use a dose of reality.
I had been involved with the Borough President’s office on issues in the past, and I had found Markowitz to be a caring, feisty guy who would go to bat for you and even answered his own emails. I am truly sorry to see what he has become.
5:17, you’re kidding, right? Because if your comment was anything but satire, then you seriously need some help!
Our Boro President has doomed himself
politically. What will he be next. I know he can work for Ratner as a spokesperson.
I hate saying it, but fat body,fat head.
just got home and saw 11:34 called me a moron. this has to be a complement from a person who writes “10:42, you’re a moron! those locations (CI, RH, B and ENY) are indeed better because: (a)it will provide a much needed economic boost to otherwise depressed areas; (b) provide nearby residents with jobs and easy access to work and stadium events; and (c) the stadium will be located close to player’s homes, family and friends”
C is the best one, yeah all the players will be close to their homes in Crown heights, bed stuy,red hook and east new york. so let me get this straight, all the NBA players are black, born in brooklyn and of course with their millions in salary will continue to live in east new york to be near their i assume black friends and families. i surrender.
This is such a waste of time, I’m ashamed of myself for even reading these comments.
i just want to say for the people who keep calling the BARCLAY CENTER (all you NIMBYS get use to the name!) a STADIUM you are basically liars. in London there is wembley atadium which holds 80,000 people and wembley arena holds 15,000 people. madison square garden holds 20 K people. and the new BARCLAY CENTER in Brooklyn will hold 18 to 20 thousand people. Oh and by the way 11:34 who says the NETS will never sell out and will do terrible I promise when you cant get in to the basketball game i will scalp you a ticket.