Walk around Wards

From Lost City
"(By the way, does anyone remember that character from the movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" called Mark "The Rat" Ratner? He was the dweeby guy who ends up with Jennifer Jason Leigh. I always wondered why no one has recycled this nickname and applied it to Bruce. Bruce "The Rat" Ratner. It seems obvious to me. He's pretty much a rat, isn't he? Looks a little rodentlke too.)"

Hmm don't remember that character.... but the names I have for Ratner have gone way beyond relatively pleasant ribbings like 'the rat'. Regarding Ratner's looks, being a hetrosexual male I don't often offer comment on other men, but damn he is one ugly, creepy looking bastard, as I have said before its' almost like a reverse Dorian Gray.


A strange thing happened while I was checking out Ward's. The block was bereft of all life save for one ramshackle, little, red four-door with the motor running. On the driver's side sat a stout, bearded Hasidic gentleman in a full gray beard and shirtsleeves. One the passenger said was another fat fella, bald as a cueball and what you'd call a tough character. (I kept thinking of the B-movie baddie Lawrence Tierney). They spoke for about 15 minutes, then baldie got out and walked back to a blue car parked behind the red one. They both then drove away.

Lots of shady stuff surrounds Atlantic Yards, however this little incident might shed some light on the curious support from Hasidim at the ESDC 'hearings' (as Atlantic Yards Report pointed out they had the gall to call us "NIMBY's" - I have no problem with their insularity, but their hypocrisy is infuriating). Its' well known they trade support for favors - recall three crooked Hasidim being pardoned by Clinton (Bill) and Hillary receiving something like 99% of the vote in the upstate town they were from. So can we speculate that the Hasidim are somehow involved and it's, well, not Kosher?