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+ Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:16:51 +0530
The Battle of Starrett City
by Nicholas Jahr
The news came with a knock on the door just before 6 a.m. One of Max Abelson’s neighbors was out in the hall. Had he heard? It was all over the news. Starrett City was on the block.
Months later, Max and his brother Alan—“They call us the Brothers,” Alan tells me—are still upset they didn’t get the score straight from Starrett’s owners. What hurt most, Max says repeatedly, is that the announcement that Starrett was to be sold came on December 1, right at the start of the holiday season.
Once he gets talking, Max’s patter is high-pitched and rapid, with the old tones of Jewish Brooklyn: “I used to work in the Bronx in Co-op City, and it’s no comparison to this place,” he says. “Starrett is kept nice. And what I like about this community—it’s an integrated community…we’re family. We know each other all these years. That’s why when they came along with this, we all got upset, because our roots are here.”
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http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/4/local/the-battle-of-starrett-city
Photos of Starrett City (March 2007)
©Lauren Lancaster/Veras Imagesphotos by Lauren Lancaster
by Nicholas Jahr
The news came with a knock on the door just before 6 a.m. One of Max Abelson’s neighbors was out in the hall. Had he heard? It was all over the news. Starrett City was on the block.
Months later, Max and his brother Alan—“They call us the Brothers,” Alan tells me—are still upset they didn’t get the score straight from Starrett’s owners. What hurt most, Max says repeatedly, is that the announcement that Starrett was to be sold came on December 1, right at the start of the holiday season.
Once he gets talking, Max’s patter is high-pitched and rapid, with the old tones of Jewish Brooklyn: “I used to work in the Bronx in Co-op City, and it’s no comparison to this place,” he says. “Starrett is kept nice. And what I like about this community—it’s an integrated community…we’re family. We know each other all these years. That’s why when they came along with this, we all got upset, because our roots are here.”
cont'd....
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/4/local/the-battle-of-starrett-city
Photos of Starrett City (March 2007)
©Lauren Lancaster/Veras Imagesphotos by Lauren Lancaster
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