Showing posts with label historic presevation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historic presevation. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Textbook Ratner

Sometimes Ratner can be quite poetic. Think of all the symbolism behind this: Ratner - the "mastermind" behind the ugliest building in Brooklyn :is set to demolish one of the nicest buildings in the Footprint, Ward's Bakery:


There is no better illustration of this developer's crassness, incompetence and indifference to aesthetics and the community. Well, don't just bitch: you can do something about it, sign the online petition and pass it along.

Funny, the National Trust considered it worthy of preservation and Ratner calls it blighted . I suppose his definition of blighted is anything that gets in the way of his stubby little fingers on more greenbacks. Were it politically expedient, I am sure he would pull down the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity. He hasn't gotten that arrogant...yet.