John Zucotti Worries About His Legacy

[LeighAnn]

From the NY Daily News (ugh)


It's possible no New Yorker paid closer attention to the reclaiming of Zuccotti Park than the respected elder city statesman for which it is named.

John Zuccotti, 74, is co-chair of global real estate giant Brookfield Properties, the owner of the half-acre slice of pink granite and honey locust trees the Occupy Wall Street movement took over.

And even though the NYPD removed the tent city that crammed the park, friends say Zuccotti worries his legacy is forever intertwined, if not over-shadowed by the showdown.

“He was very worried about it, former Mayor Ed Koch told the Daily News after speaking with Zuccotti recently. “He said, 'Everybody knows my name, Zuccotti, not because of what I’ve done as an individual, but because of the park.’”


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[BeyondGeography]

1. The co-chair of Brookfield Properties?

From anonymous real estate schlub to NYC immortality. Be thankful, dope.

[EFerrari]

2. So, this rich guy is worried, not about the people and what they're going through

but about his reputation.

What a selfish jerk.

[aquart]

3. If they really knew what he's done, he would be in jail.

Zuccotti the fixer. Corrupting government one favor at a time.

[Zorra]

4. I'd be stoked. Dude needs to lighten up and seize the moment. nt

[Poll_Blind]

5. I...uh...Well, I read the whole article to see if that would snap things into a bit better focus.

Didn't work.

In fact, for a two-pager (albeit short pages), there really isn't much to chew on. I think that's intentional, which makes it...even more ephemeral.

PB

[MADem]

6. Well, I don't know Zucotti from zucchini, frankly. What's he worried about?

That people who had never heard of his ass before know his name, now?

What, he was expecting to be a footnote in the history books for being the co-chair of "Brookfield Properties??"

Please. Such hubris! If he wants his name to go down in history, he's going to have to pony up sufficient money so that a permanent Civil Rights exhibit at a major museum bears his name, or perhaps he could fund a major NYC museum addition that highlights the era where he did his thing for the city--it's not like he can't afford it:

Zuccotti spent decades building his reputation as a virtuous, civic-minded powerbroker.

As then-Mayor Abe Beame’s first deputy mayor, he is widely considered the white knight who restored public trust and fiscal order as the city teetered on the brink of bankruptcy in the mid-1970s.

Before that, the registered Democrat participated in Rev. Martin Luther King’s 1968 Poor People’s march on the D.C., and chaired the City Planning Commission under former Mayor John Lindsay. He also worked in President Lyndon Johnson’s administration in Housing and Urban Development department.



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[999998th word]

7. 'Brookfield properties co-chair' No one gives a shit about your so called 'legacy'.

[999998th word]

8. .