Ratner Tight-Lipped on AY Details
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…
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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ratner = in control
goldstein, dddb = irrelevant
ratner is more than “shmuck who wears nice shoes to construction site”? WOW, good one!
ratner > shmuck who wears nice shoes to construction site
daniel goldstein = homeless
dddb = sports talk radio
Awww… a little spark of love perhaps? Hmm… so cute!
your very welcome pitbull. 🙂
thanks dieselfuel222 🙂
*rob*
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?”
“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.
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!