Lots of Ratner News
Atlantic Yards is dead. May it rest in pieces.
But death, alas, won’t end the Ratner fleeces,
For close observers of the giveaway plots
Are warning of the coming of parking lots.
Now these would flood the Flatbush/Atlantic area,
Where demolishments already cause hysteria,
With 20 acres of cars dumped by their drivers
Who’ve quickly turned into new-style contrivers
To grab the nearby subway –so enticing–
And beat the eight-buck cost of congestion pricing.
Why drive into Manhattan for that fee
When riding the train is practically free?
(With vehicle armies marching in and out,
All traffic will be snarled without a doubt.)
Once congestion pricing is adopted,
Miss Brooklyn (recessionary climate stopped it)
Along with Ratner’s office tower and housing
Will be the objects of no one’s carousing;
The only structure likely to go up
Is the basketball court, where rich folks watch and sup.
Surrounding it, the multi-billion fright
Amounting to a field of Brooklyn blight.