AUTHOR: Eustacia Vye
TITLE: Ratner Keeps His Tax Break
DATE: 11:09 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_aUlFK5Hylos/RqjWd2lC_fI/AAAAAAAAA7w/dll0U-MJTkM/s1600-h/blackandwhiteAY.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_aUlFK5Hylos/RqjWd2lC_fI/AAAAAAAAA7w/dll0U-MJTkM/s800/blackandwhiteAY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091555187097796082" border="0" /></a><br />We like the Daily News' definition of "slash tax break" in <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/brooklyn/2007/07/26/2007-07-26_pols_slash_taxbreak_on_atlantic_yards.html">their Atlantic Yards story today</a>: Bruce Ratner gets out of paying property  taxes for a mere 15 years, rather than 25 years as originally planned. Norman Oder provides <a href="http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2007/07/behind-closed-doors-compromise-on.html">annotation and analysis</a> over at Atlantic Yards Report.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/atlantic yards.html">atlantic yards</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Bruce Ratner.html">Bruce Ratner</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Forest City Ratner.html">Forest City Ratner</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Michael Bloomberg.html">Michael Bloomberg</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/New York Daily News.html">New York Daily News</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/Norman Oder.html">Norman Oder</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/property tax.html">property tax</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/britinbrooklyn/labels/tax breaks.html">tax breaks</a></p>
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