Atlantic Yards Propaganda Backlash

It hasn't been a particularly good few days for Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner. First, the glossy Atlantic Yards brochure mailed out in huge quantities was greeted like a skunk wandering into a garden party by many recipients and certainly by critics. Of note is the particularly brilliant deconstruction by the Brooklyn Paper's Gersh Kuntzman. His Brooklyn Angle column included a comment by an actress featured in the brochure (an anti-Atlantic Yards Prospect Heights resident) that unwittingly flacking for Atlantic Yards is "one of the most nightmarish experiences of my life."

Today, of course, news broke of the star-studed anti-Atlantic Yards Advisory Board that includes Rosie Perez, Steve Buscemi, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Safran Foer, Heath Ledger (!) and Jhumpa Lahiri among others. No members of The Strokes noted, though.

Note to Bono: Can you move to Brooklyn for a spell and sign on?