Bridge march rips Brooklyn development

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By Jess Wisloski
The Brooklyn Papers

Nearly 500 protesters crossed the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday evening in a show of solidarity against Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards development and other contentious projects.

Marchers from Yonkers, NY, and Greenpoint joined Brooklynites in slamming Ratner and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose administration masterminded the Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning plan. Yonkers is the site of another Ratner retail and housing project. Like his Brooklyn site, the one in Yonkers would award Ratner an allotment of government-owned land.

A giant check written out to Forest City Ratner — symbolizing government subsidies — was pinned to the front of a podium, where protesters headed after crossing the bridge, at the corner of Broadway and Park Place in Lower Manhattan.

“Hey-hey, Ho-ho, Ratnerville has got to go!” chanted marchers as they poured off the bridge. <snip>

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