Bruce Ratner is someone who reminds us all the time that, even in difficult financial times, we need to be a city that continues to grow 
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Renowned Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, centre, is seen, during a concert in Tskhinvali, Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. In front of a half-destroyed government building, on a plaza flanked by armored personnel carriers, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a requiem Thursday for South Ossetia's victims of war.
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President Hugo Chavez meets with managers of the New SIDOR to discuss ' Plan of the New SIDOR Socialist, during a television broadcast in Caracas, Venezuela. August 21, 2008. Venezuela is about to reach a compensation agreement with Argentina's Ternium over the nationalization of steelmaker Sidor, Chavez said during a television broadcast on Thursday.
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BEIJING - AUGUST 21: Silver medalists from the United States, gold medalists from Japan and bronze medalists from Australia pose for a group photo behind the year 2016 spelled out in softballs (signifying their desire to reinstate softball as an Olympic sport since it will not be during the 2012 Olympic summer games) during the medal ceremony after USA lost 3-1 to Japan during the women's grand final gold medal softball game at the Fengtai Softball Field during Day 13 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 21, 2008 in Beijing, China.
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United States' Jeremy Wariner, front, reacts after United States' LaShawn Merritt, back, won the gold in the men's 400-meter final during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.
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NAPLES, FL - AUGUST 19: A man hold his shoes while walking home from work in street flooding from Tropical Storm Fay August 19, 2008 in Naples, Florida. Fay moved inland Tuesday after making landfall in southwest Florida, bringing soaking rains and gusty winds but failing to reach the minimal hurricane status that had been predicted.
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Tropical Storm Fay is pictured over the state of Florida in this satellite image taken on August 19, 2008. Fay, currently located inland about 30 miles east-southeast of Ft Myers on the west side of Lake Okeechobee, is expected to remain over Florida through Saturday.
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This August 20, 2008 NOAA satellite image shows Tropical Storm Fay located south of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Tropical Storm Fay was heading eastward toward Florida's Atlantic coast early August 20, with forecasters saying it will more than likely make a return trip to the waterlogged state after it finally moves offshore."This storm is going to be with us for a while. That's obvious now," Florida Governor Charlie Crist said late Tuesday."It looks like it could be a boomerang storm." Forecasters said Fay may stick around through Thursday or later. Fay on Tuesday slammed into Florida's southwest coast, buffeting the Sunshine State with severe winds and drenching rains, while also spawning tornadoes and severe flooding.
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Quotes about Bruce Ratner
Bruce Ratner is someone who reminds us all the time that, even in difficult financial times, we need to be a city that continues to grow
said Anthony Weiner
in No Land Grab
I don't remember any of Bloomberg's four stooges on the MTA board raising their voices about the less-than-50%-of-the-MTA's-own-appraised-value giveaway of the Vanderbilt Railyard to Bruce C. Ratner. Et tu, Bloomy?
was said
in Streetsblog
It creates jobs it brings people to our community ... But there's no reason for us to be subsidizing this development, and there's no reason for Bruce Ratner to use his powers, to use his connections to force Lower Manhattanites to make decisions and to subsidize his projects.
said Paul Newell
We have been waiting for this school for far too long to allow it to be held up at the whims of Bruce Ratner's development schedule ... Once again, Shelly Silver has sided with his big money donors over the interests of Lower Manhattanites. The corporate welfare of millions of dollars in unwarranted tax breaks to Bruce Ratner is an insult to New York City's children in this time of fiscal belt tightening.
said Paul Newell
in No Land Grab
Though Ratner is attempting to manufacture support for more public subsidy for his failing project, the developer cynically calls his 'rally' a 'Brooklyn Day Celebration.' But the Atlantic Yards proposal is nothing to celebrate ... Today Bruce Ratner celebrates a vision of Brooklyn that only works for him, not Brooklynites.
said Daniel Goldstein
in No Land Grab
Quotes from articles mentioning Bruce Ratner
How this man looks every day in a positive way at all the hate that's been directed to him, I will never know
said Marty Markowitz
in No Land Grab
Bruce Ratner is someone who reminds us all the time that, even in difficult financial times, we need to be a city that continues to grow
said Anthony Weiner
in No Land Grab
