Screw Ratner and Pinch
NO! NO! NO! NO!NO! NO!NO! NO!NO! NO!
These bastrds got all the rope they needed and now they deserve to hang. Read the damn contract, whiteshoes:

While everyone wants the building to go up, the stakes are all on Mr. Ratner’s side. Written into the agreement between Mr. Ratner and the city was a stipulation that Mr. Ratner had to begin construction in 2004; failure to obtain the financing for it kills the deal. That means the state gets its development lot, and the $85.6 million condemnation fees, whether Mr. Ratner builds there or not.

"We understood that the tenant market might be weak, and we had the developer assume an absolute obligation to pay all condemnation costs," said a source at the ESDC. "The Times is either helping this great building go up, or they’re paving the way for another building to rise."

SCREW YOU BASTARDS! You had the city chase people off their property, upset countless lives, because you said you could pull this off. So don't you freaking dare try and pull off everyone now that you realize you bit off more than you could chew. You arrogant bastards.

And "Hey Yo! Pinch?" Like the article says, where the hell you gonna go? Because I can tell you now, you threaten to pull out of this city if it doesn't knuckle under, your mastehead is gone, asshat. You ain't near enough a member of the NYC "community" that we don't all go wolf on your corporate ass.

And we'll burn all of Ratner's Brooklyn 'gimmees' in the process, which means you'd catch it from both sides.