From a New York Times profile today of Nick Sprayregen, the winning (so far) main plaintiff in the challenge to eminent domain for the Columbia University expansion:
He pulled out a copy of the inaugural address by Columbiaās president, Lee C. Bollinger, in 2002, and read several passages. In one, Mr. Bollinger described the universityās need to expand and said, āI will do everything in my power to build this new Columbia.āIt also sounds a lot like Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner's statement, upon the December 2003 announcement of the AY plan: "We are going to get the Nets to Brooklyn if itās the last thing I do."
āThat almost sounds like itās coming from a religious figure,ā Mr. Sprayregen said. āDo they think this is fallow land with no one on it, and theyāre settlers and there are a bunch of illiterate Indians here and itās their God-given responsibility to tame us and take control?ā
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