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NewsHour (PBS) at Freddy's? — Brooklynian

NewsHour (PBS) at Freddy's?

crustythor
crustythor
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights

Subject: NewsHour (PBS) at Freddy's?

i left at 6:30 - did PBS show? was PH made to look good? will the story air?

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  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    NewsHour reporter Ray Suarez did show up, fashionably late. I saw him conduct several interviews, but I don't know the details, as I had to leave fairly early myself.

    I had a really strange encounter with an anti-Ratner activist. I think the activist overheard us discussing Soda Bar, and then started to complain, unprompted, about Russian-owned businesses ruining the character of the neighborhood.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    dailyheights wrote: I had a really strange encounter with an anti-Ratner activist. I think the activist overheard us discussing Soda Bar, and then started to complain, unprompted, about Russian-owned businesses ruining the character of the neighborhood.
    I wonder how he feels about Albano...
  • alex
    alex
    dailyheights wrote: NewsHour reporter Ray Suarez did show up, fashionably late. I saw him conduct several interviews, but I don't know the details, as I had to leave fairly early myself.

    I had a really strange encounter with an anti-Ratner activist. I think the activist overheard us discussing Soda Bar, and then started to complain, unprompted, about Russian-owned businesses ruining the character of the neighborhood.
    That seems about right. I used to live across the street from Freddy's and every time I would walk over it seemed like a bunch of people complaining about some outside influence ruining the neighborhood or detracting from their lives somehow. That grows old pretty fast, but I did have some good times there.

    Sorry if you like the place but that's just how I feel about it.
  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    [BACKSTORY: NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is doing a piece on Ratner and Atlantic Yards, so they ducked into Freddy's--which has become a spiritual homeland to anti-Ratner sentiment--to get the community perspective.]

    Brooklyn Papers just published an article about the PBS news crew coming to Freddy's. Link below. Hey Jess, great article, but you got the reporter's name wrong... it's Ray Suarez, not Luis...

    Read more...

    LINK: Ratner arena foes pack Freddy’s Bar amid word of ‘NewsHour’ interview [BrooklynPapers.com]

    brooklynpapers.com_28_34freddys.jpg
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