Hepcat read about it on Radar, which may not be the most reliable source. But here’s the story anyway:

Our Borough’s first lady, Jamie Snow (the wife of Marty Markowitz), attended Thursday night’s fancy, $1,000-a-plate dinner and ball at the Brooklyn Museum (where Bruce Ratner was being honored and protesters were demonstrating outside) and is said to have swiped eight valuable placemats designed by the artist Takashi Murakami, meant as party favors for the guests (one per customer).

Radar had this to say:

Without a doubt, the person who got the most out of Thursday night’s Takashi Murakami retrospective opening at the Brooklyn Museum of Art was Jamie Snow, the wife of Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz. She grabbed eight of the limited-addition Murakami technicolor fiberglass place mats that were being given out as gifts to party-goers—mats that fetched up to $1,000 on eBay after similar events. And she was wasn’t about to give even one of them up.

If the story is true: shame on you Jamie Snow.

Did you think you were at a wedding where it’s sometimes okay to grab the flower arrangements at the end of the night?

Or were you being like greedy kid at a birthday party, who takes more than one goody bag. I mean, what were you thinking? As far as I’m concerned, you’ve got a lot of explaining to do.

According to Radar:

The mats were intended to be taken by seated guests, but after wolfing down dinner, the enterprising Snow, perhaps sensing a business opportunity, rounded up eight of the mats and rushed over to Murakami to have them signed. When party-goers who ended up placemat-less asked her if she would kindly relinquish one, Snow snidely remarked, “You guys really should have acted faster. This is Brooklyn,” and skulked away.

This is Brooklyn?

And what did you mean by that? Your husband may be Brooklyn’s number one booster, but you’re giving the borough a bad name.

“Just try being married to her,” was all Marty Markowitz would say.