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Selective Nostalgia
The photo above is from the Daily
News' coffee-table book, Summer
In The City, about New York's presumed Golden Age of Baseball -- the
1950s.
The photo depicts a Brooklyn Dodger outpost -- "a
bar on Dean Street and 6th Ave., Brooklyn" -- just after the Yankees
have defeated the Dodgers in the 1952 World Series.
The Daily
News' editors and and a single dishonest
columnist use the paper's pages to endorse
the destruction of this little bar. But in their sepia-colored coffee-table book,
the News presents Freddy's as shining symbol of Dodgers nostalgia --
the same nostalgia Bruce Ratner, Marty Markowitz, Charles Gargano, Mayor Bloomberg,
et. al. are exploiting in order to, among many other things, destroy the bar.
Freddy's, worthy of nostalgia and many visits, has a chock
full calendar of events, a great crowd and is standing up for itself and its
constitutional rights as
a plaintiff on the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of eminent domain
for the "Atlantic Yards" project.
Unlike the Dodgers who left town on their own volition, Freddy's is
fighting to stay in the town it loves and that loves it.
There is no
nostalgia for a TGIFridays.
Fans For Fair Play, expert on all things sports, Freddy's and counterfeit nostalgists,
has a thing
or two to say about the picture above vis a vis Ratner the pushers of his plan.
Here is a sampling:
A Picture
...Freddy's serves working people from Prohibition days 'til now. Before the
Eighteenth Amendment is repealed, Freddy's is a speakeasy. There is also bowling
for a spell. Freddy's is for factory people, including the pressmen from the
Daily News plant around the corner -- Freddy's wets striking whistles
during the tense 1990 strike. Closer to now, Freddy's is a cop bar. These days,
everyone from punk rockers to firefighters to opera singers to local barflies
call Freddy's home.
This photo appears in Summer In The City, a nice coffee-table photo
book put out by the New York Daily News and written by Daily News columnist
Vic Ziegel. The Daily News fails on many levels, but it has the city's best
and most forward thinking sports columnists -- Mike Lupica, Filip Bondy, Michael
O'Keefe, Lisa Olson, T.J. Quinn, Christian Red.
Those smarts do not extend to the paper's publisher and editors. The publisher is a man whose bloated wealth comes from real estate. The editors, who can know where they get their ideas? Maybe it's powerful types whispering in their impressionable ears.
One thing is clear: the Daily News wants to see Freddy's Bar torn down
to make way for Ratner's obscene and wasteful project. Much like the New York
Times, the Daily News is a business partner with Bruce Ratner. The
paper is in the cross-promotion game with Ratner's Nets basketball team, an
enterprise that needs all the promotion it can get.
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Read the full post.
Posted: 1.08.07
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