I tried all morning to come up with a clever way to analogize the developer’s most recent scam, but it never came, so I’ll just say that this is shameless — even for Bruce Ratner.
Fans For Fair Play, a group fighting the Atlantic Yards project, reports that Ratner wants to give free Nets tickets to people without jobs. Scott Turner writes on the Web site that 1500 tickets are being offered over the next two months, or the next 18 games. If you do the math, that boils down to only 83 tickets a game. Says Scott:
“Offering Nets tickets as an inducement is a lot like paying someone with Monopoly money. The team, gutted of star players in a desperate bid to land LeBron James two years from now, is mediocre at best. Pre-season prognosticators don’t have New Jersey even making the playoffs.”
There has been little to no coverage of the ticket scheme. A Google News search today turned up only one item, a USA Today blog post applauding the effort.
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