essential reading bklyn

as you know, bruce ratner is planning to gut a major part of bklyn and condo it up, forcing out many longtime area residents, bringing that manhattan bourgie shit, driving up rents, building butt-ugly condos and further transforming new york into a city for rich people. et cetera, et cetera
today the times reported he’ll chop down the size of the development. Not good enough, but proof that his critics are getting to him.
so here’s a good blog on the topic