April 12, 2004
Ratner hints at moving building
In his latest salvo in the news-leak war over his planned Brooklyn Nets arena, "sources close to" developer Bruce Ratner tell Newsday he may consider using giant rollers to move residences that are in the path of the development. Newsday notes that Ratner used a similar trick to relocate the Empire Theater off Times Square in 1998, but fails to observe that that building was merely slid from one end of a block to another on rails; buildings such as the old Spalding sporting-goods factory, now filled with high-priced loft co-ops, would have to be moved across a busy street and then rotated 90 degrees, or else co-op owners would walk out their front door into the middle of someone's backyard.
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