The lockdown of the Nethermead is almost complete.
Curious, how gated communities, the security state, and private takings of the public sphere all begin to look alike.
According to the Brooklyn Paper, the Prospect Alliance is expected to make “at least $75,000” from the Great Googa Mooga Shit Pile. Or put another way, something less than $3 dollars per attendee. Or, considering the set-up and take-down days as well as the three-day festival of consumption itself, perhaps $7500 per day. Seems to me they whored out the public’s park rather cheaply.
The stage is located next to a Green Heron nest. I hope the brooding mother isn’t thrown out because she lacks a VIP Backstage Pass.
Update: As you can tell, I’m not happy with this situation. The fact that the returns for all this trouble seem paltry indeed only adds fuel to my fire. Perhaps intemperately, then, I called the Prospect Park Alliance suckers on their Facebook page for taking such a lame deal, and linked to this post. They deleted the comment and link — they can do whatever they want, of course, being a private entity — but if you think other “friends” of the park, if not necessarily of the Alliance, would be interested in reading this and yesterday’s post, I can’t stop you from adding this link to their FB page.
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