Gothamist: Ratner Starts Spreading His News

lumi

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 05:45:20 -0500

To riff off Forest City Ratner's business parnter in Times Square, here's a good slogan for The Standard: "All the news that's printed to fit" Rocknrope was curious about the advertisers in The Brooklyn Standard. I don't have it in front of me, but I recall that there was a full-page ad from BAM and NY Aquarium. Bruce Ratner is on the board of BAM, but the Aquarium connection is a mystery.

daniel

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:06:00 -0500

sorry about the hacky formatting.

daniel

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:14:39 -0500

jim

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:59:57 -0500

About the proposed "Atlantic Terminal" development, my attitude on all these public projects is it's OK as long as I don't have to pay for it. By that I mean I don't want to pay for more cops to patrol the area, I don't want to pay for subsidies for the builders, or pay more taxes because they are getting tax breaks, or pay to have streets widened, or any other changes to infrastructure caused by the building or its subsequent use, or pay the local building owners for their homes to be torn down, or pay the salaries of EPA and DOB buildings working on this project, or anything else. I know something's going to get built on those rail yards. Somebody will make a lot of money on the deal. The least the City can do is lessen the impact on me.

Steve O.

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:23:45 -0500

Check out NY Press columnist Aaron Naparstek's recent take on the A' Yards. He's a genius! http://www.nypress.com/18/28/news&columns/aaronnaparstek.cfm

Gringcorp

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:31:00 -0500

No worries. The go-to place for Ratner/stadium antics is nolandgrab.org. It's a bit more comprehensive than the DDDB site.

Jen

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:17:54 -0500

Gringcorp - true, it seems we're late to the party on this one! Thanks for pointing this out... I haven't been blessed with receiving this myself.

daybird

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:00:47 -0500

the NY Times was a Robert Moses Cheerleader as he paved over ever square inch he could get his hands on, so their love of Ratner is no different. When the lady at the Bergen 2/3 handed the Ratner Rag to me this morning, I was going to get into it with her, but it was obvious she had no clue about it either way. Oh how I wish Marty M or Mister Ratner himself would get out there and do their dirty work.

Rocknrope

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:57:43 -0500

I took one at the 7th Avenue Park Slope station. I knew it was a Ratner propaganda rag as soon as I saw the title "BROOKLYN BOOMING!" As Jack mentioned, clearly transparent. I tossed it as soon as I walked onto the platform. I did wonder about the companies who advertised in it though. Did they comp advertising in it, or was it just dirt cheap?

alan

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:49:38 -0500

You mean the 2 and 3 stop at Grand Army, Hijiki? I can't stand either of those guys. Now there's going to be three idiots that I have to get past in order to get into the subway station. What ever happened to just having a paper stand by the entrance? As for the Ratner Standard, it's just sickening. Propaganda at its foulest...

rh

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:46:03 -0500

Hey careful what you say HR--the sheep soooooo might follow you back to Manhattan! You know, being sheep and all.

Gringcorp

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:45:53 -0500

Dubious indeed it is. Three weeks old, also, it is, as I discovered when, um, breaking this myself. http://gumbyfresh.blogspot.com/2005/07/one-for-hamster-cage.html

mrf

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:36:06 -0500

The Brooklyn Papers (eg the Park Slope Paper) have been covering Ratner very unfairly, seemingly going out of their way to find stories that paint Ratner in a bad light (for several weeks they were beating the drum about a rash of...pickpockets (gasp!) at Ratner's new Atlantic Center. Meanwhile, the NYT has taken the opposite tack, casually dismissing critics of the plan in every article they write. (Of course Ratner building the new NYT headquarters couldn't have anything to do with it...I hope.) Anyway, while I was initially really turned off by the Daily Ratner when I saw it a few weeks ago, it's not that bad. It doesn't try to hide its source and Ratner is entitled to whatever means he feels is appropriate for getting his voice heard by the public.

hijiki

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:33:15 -0500

at my subway stop in prospect heights, where there are normally 2 guys handing out 'metro' and 'am new york', both were abscent and only a 'brooklyn standard' guy was there. hmm.

Jack

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:26:27 -0500

This is so crass and transparent it's pathetic. But it begs the question: Why? It seems as if Ratner is the 800 lb. gorilla of the Atlantic Yards project. So why this? And why now? What can Ratner gain at this point by putting out this shilling broadsheet?

hr

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:13:54 -0500

Ahhh.. SOOOOOO glad I moved back into Manhattan when all the sheep suddenly discovered how great brooklyn was. was.