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May 09, 2006
Why is this woman smiling?
Not only did New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner's new glossy brochure depict an arena as an open field - it's apparently supposed to be a private roof garden, but you tell me - but it managed to use an arena opponent as one of its cover girls. Brooklyn Papers' Gersh Kuntzman reports that actress T. Sahara Meer, pictured in a full-page photo being smooched at the Prospect Park Bandshell, is a diehard arena opponent who calls the day she posed for an unknown photographer "one of the most nightmarish experiences of my life: I have become Bruce Ratner's poster girl."
For that matter, what's a picture of the Prospect Park Bandshell doing in a brochure for Ratner's planned Atlantic Yards development, which would be more than a mile away? Given that the mailing's cover photos include Park Slope brownstones (Ratner's plan is all high-rises) and the Brooklyn Bridge (well over a mile distant), it seems like somebody's hoping to distract Brooklynites from what he actually wants to build.
Yeah, couldn't they have found enough pictures of happy and relieved people who'd just managaged, after several hours, to find their way out of the labyrinthian Atlantic Center Mall?
Posted by Eric M. on May 10, 2006 06:53 PM
I hear David Blaine considered spending a week in the Atlantic Center Mall, but decided a water-filled bubble would be less taxing.
Posted by Neil on May 10, 2006 07:04 PM