The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brookyn-related information and images. Pro-AY Groups Have Contributed $680,000 to Marty’s Coffers [NY Post] Today is the Last Day to Register to Vote in New York [Gothamist] A Con Ed Worker in ENY Was Killed in a Manhole Explosion [City Room] Cops Are Ticketing Bikers Exiting the Manhattan Bridge [Streetsblog] What’s Next for [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Being the biggest booster of Brooklyn's controversial Atlantic Yards project has really paid off for Borough President Marty Markowitz. Since 2003, Nets owner Bruce Ratner and others involved in the $4 billion plan for an NBA arena and apartment...
The Real Estate (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The New York Post 's Chuck Bennett and Rick Calder report today that Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner and other project backers have "funneled" at least $680,000 to nonprofits set up and championed by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Mr. Markowitz, of course, remains one of the downtown Brooklyn project's biggest cheerleaders. (He last year purged a community board opposed to Atlantic...
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Being the biggest booster of Brooklyn's controversial Atlantic Yards project has really paid off for Borough President Marty Markowitz. Since 2003, Nets owner Bruce Ratner and others involved in the $4 billion plan for an NBA arena and 16 apartment and office towers in the heart of Brooklyn have quietly funneled at least $680,000 to three nonprofit groups set up by Markowitz to run pet projects, a...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, pictured here at last week's Atlantic Antic , is still drawing fire over the way he runs several non-profit groups that put on free Brooklyn events and promote tourism. Last month city comptroller Bill Thompson said he was "very concerned" about $680,496 in taxpayer-financed no-bid contracts Markowitz awarded to the non-profits, and the Brooklyn Paper saw...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
ARENA-PLAN GROUPS BOO$T HIS PROJECTS NY Post by Rich Calder and Chuck Bennett All this time, we thought Marty Markowitz was all-in on Atlantic Yards because he missed the Dodgers so much. Wrong! Being the biggest booster of Brooklyn's controversial Atlantic Yards project has really paid off for Borough President Marty Markowitz. Since 2003, Nets owner Bruce Ratner and others involved in the $4 billion...
