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As anticipated, last night's gala event at the Brooklyn Museum honoring real estate developer Bruce Ratner attracted protesters opposed to the $4 billion Atlantic Yards stadium and residential development proposed for a 22-acre site just a stone's throw from the museum. Atlantic Yards Report was at the scene and writes: "The protest organized by Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn last night outside the museum was notably angry, with some 80 people gathering at one point, many chanting 'Ratner is a liar' and 'Shame on you' at vehicles coming to drop off their passengers."
Inside, museum donors and other invited guests enjoyed the opening of the Takashi Murakami retrospective and later a performance by Kanye West. No word yet on just what the "one-night-only Louis Vuitton performance in support of the protection of intellectual property" was, but outside the museum Vuitton did present an ironic installation of street vendors' tables heaped with authentic Vuitton goods, not knock-offs. (See photos.)
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An art exhibition about the vicious cycle of the ota in Japan, juxtaposed with the vicious cycle of development in New York.
Ratner..."c" Murakami...cancel my museum membership.
People protesting for a little decency shouldn't look like freaks. Makes me think they deserve to be driven out of the nabe.
Think again suckaz
The Brooklyn Museum, The Botanic Gardens and even the Prospect Park Allience does exactly this...without question
Provide those select New Yorkers to have the PoPo keep the rabble out.......
u new Brooklynites betta learn how 2 enjoy congestion pricing now gets you to pay for park use.......fools
Taz the poor because Bloomberg has to pay Sport teams and developers for destroying NYC.
This aint sex in the City and poppa is preaching...u mofos killed NYC.
So when real NYer start killing ya over $20...realize it aint just for the jackson.
is that guy in the bush mask in a free speech zone?
Posting this to make sure that it is clear why we called the protest.
Below is is the text from the flier DDDB handed out to attendees going to the Museum's gala, celebrating and honoring Atlantic Yards proposer Bruce Ratner. The Museum presented Mr. Ratner with it's highest award.
Here is the text:
We don’t question the Museum’s right to raise funds to support itself. We don’t even question the Museum accepting donations from Bruce Ratner. What we do take extreme issue with is honoring and celebrating Bruce Ratner in light of what he has done and proposes to do to Brooklyn’s communities. What does he plan to do? Override all local zoning, demolish a low-rise residential neighborhood and replace it with a sports arena and 16 skyscrapers—the densest project in the United States—smack in the middle of some of the great urban, residential neighborhoods in the country.
In the Brooklyn Museum’s words, Bruce Ratner will be commended, when he is celebrated and honored at tonight’s gala with the museum’s highest honor—the Augustus Graham award—for his “generous support of various activities of the Brooklyn Museum.”
But in celebrating its honoree Bruce Ratner, the Museum conveniently ignores Ratner’s divisive and abusive 4-year old campaign to promote his Atlantic Yards development proposal, and the disastrous effect it would have on Brooklyn’s neighborhoods—the very same neighborhoods which the Museum calls home. While the Museum has stated that their award to Ratner does not suggest support for the Atlantic Yards proposal, by celebrating Bruce Ratner the Museum explicitly ignores the community’s sentiment about the developer and his proposal, and gives tacit support to and acceptance of Ratner’s public actions in pursuit of the project.
Ratner’s Atlantic Yards is now nationally recognized as a poster child for bad development and bad urban planning, yet locally one of Brooklyn’s great institutions has decided to honor and celebrate the promoter of that poster child. To the demonstrators here today and so many others, that is unacceptable.
Ratner’s Atlantic Yards campaign has, and continues to be, a campaign that has run roughshod over the Brooklyn community as well as the broader civic and political fabric of the city, in so many ways including:
Subverting Democratic Processes
Eminent Domain Abuse
Inexcusable Use Of Over $2 Billion In Public Subsidy For A Hugely Profitable Project And A No Bid Deal
Broken Promises
Intolerance For Any Public Criticism Or Community Input
Outmoded Urban Planning Principles
Utterly Out Of Scale And Character Architecture
Intentionally Divisive Tactics
Mass Demolitions (including landmark buildings)
...And On And On.
DWM2008 wrote:
What the fuck does congestion pricing have to do with park use?the authentic LV tables are hilarious
The real New Yorkers that night were outside protesting.
Enough. I can't wait for the Ratner project to be built! It will be great seeing basketball and concerts in Brooklyn! As for the folks who have been displaced, well, they have been well paid. As for the ones protesting, hey, stop standing in the way of progress. Sure, you don't want the traffic, well tough shite because this is NYC and that's what you get. If you don't like it, move back to whatever town you originally came from.
I love all these entitled yuppies screaming, "NOT IN MY BACKYARD!"
Yo...
Money talks! U voted for all those people allowing developers to do what is is doing...searching for an in between, where poorer communities are easily developed with a routing brute squad mentallity...the same should go for all.
To be Honest why only 100 supporters came to that protest and the numbers remain small in such protests is because time after time, in this city has the middle classes have willingly looked the other way as self sustaining poorer communities are over-run with landlords looking to get out older families at lower rent for the newer, younger and silghtly better employed "wanna-be" NY neophites wanting to say they live in Brooklyn...
This is allowable for Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace and the Poorer families being moved out of Mitchell LLama housing to secure other properties...
The best and largest part of the life of this city is gone, holding on now is seeminglya bit racist as NY, reflecting in blogs like this one, lack a representation of people of color......
As the remaining are sold out by the CBOs serving them up for sale because funding osn't there (ACORN. UPROSE), the people , the real numbers causes like this one need, aren't there.
Tenants have a hard time fighting for landlords charging way too much for way too little....and most mofo in nyc rent..so having empathy for sch is difficult....
U voted for Bloomberg and u have let NYC be sold out by a money grubbing closeted freak from Boston.....suckaz
Fool called JMH
Park useage fees are included in PLANYC...
PERMITS for useage for groups are already required for groups of 10 or more.... billing is about $35 per hour and a half
Congestion pricing and the development of downtown Brooklyn are the first steps of PLANYC..
maybe JMH don't know how to read.....
You would have loved us all the more if you'd come to the protest, had any semblance of respect for the families in Ft Greene, and saw how 'entitled' and 'yuppy' we all really are. Lovely generalizations.
You want to see the Nets? Go to Jersey.
Forget housing prices, has anyone considered that AY is just plain UGLY? It is way too big for the neighborhood and the wavy buildings scream a contemporary style that will not age well.
Congestion pricing is entirely separate from any fees people might be charged to use parks. The fact that they might both be part of a greater scheme doesn't make them the same thing.
Reality Czech, this isn't about NIMBY, it's about eminent domain abuse. if you don't know the difference then you should learn a little before you post.
Third picture from the left on the bottom, the dude in the green jacket. HILARIOUS.
Hah! That was Marc Jacobs. Shows what I know.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/62-knowing-whats-best-for-poor-people/
i'm not really sure if "eclipsed" is the right words, the people on the inside seem to be having a much better time than the sour-faced protestors outside. i'd say they won.
Wow,
What does making the population pay for property it already owns......and pay for access that have always been free called? PLANYC
Is PLANYC realted to the Atlantic Yards development and congestions pricing? Say this with me....YES.
Who wins....not you thats for sure.....but at least you get to see the jigga nigga and his hoe at the "insert cooperate name here" stadium that you are paying for wait, ...you still gotta buy tickets......Suckaz.....
gentrification really didn't get rid of those uppity negro folk, just the ones without the cash........wipe that dirt off your shoulder, but sometimes voting republican.....you cant wash it off...
Welcome to NYC.....PLANYC.. where you paying for everything and screw you you cant afford it.....
y still get robbed in nyc but this time it is by the politicians padding slush funds and having taxpayers flip the bill as they rent out prime Harlem park space to only the most exclusive high schools.....
At least back in the day......well..nevermind..
no one hate what it was, but no one has an idea of what NYC is to become...mikey will fiddle as it burns.....
i'm not really sure if "eclipsed" is the right words, the people on the inside seem to be having a much better time than the sour-faced protestors outside. i'd say they won.
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well if you can't have fun shelling out thousands of bucks to rub shoulders with those-who-sit-behind-tinted-windows, while eating rubber chickens and sushi, while gazing at ejaculating anime sculptures, listening to an inarticulate bald buffoon billionaire pat himself on the back for doing the opposite of what he says he does...then where you gonna have fun?
Anyone who thinks that those opposing the Atlantic Yards project are entitled yuppies is sadly in need of a reality check. These are working people who refuse to sell out. That so-called "community groups" have been bought off does not mean this project has any popular support among people affected. This project is a disaster.
Here's a little interesting tidbit of information:
Did you know that the SENIOR DEVELOPMENT OFFICER at the BROOKLYN MUSEUM is BRUCE RATNER'S NEPHEW!!!!!
Any more connections ring clear?