May 08, 2006

Celebs join Nets fight

Actors Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez, and Heath Ledger and novelists Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jonathan Lethem are among the members of a 33-member advisory board put together by Develop Don't Destroy, the neighborhood group fighting Bruce Ratner's planned Brooklyn Nets arena and apartment-tower complex. Said Lahiri in a statement: "This is a vibrant, historic neighborhood that has been steadily growing and improving from within; the last thing it needs is to be so radically altered in the name of development." Somewhere, Jane Jacobs is smiling.