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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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*
I hope we see Ratner in Timbs next time.
those are brooklyn slippers.
he keeps his expensive, clean shoes in the bentley.
duh.
Hmmmm;
Those shoes won’t go with the Bentley.
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.
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?
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!
Shoes are “SK”s for walking through deep doo-doo.
Sensible shoes for a sensible gentleman.