Touche, Tish!
The chief of staff to one of the highest-profile opponents to the Atlantic It is unclear what Janella Meeks, former chief of staff to City Councilwoman “Oooh, this is too good,” cooed one supporter of Atlantic Yards Sources say that James and Meeks —sister of pro-Atlantic Yards Rep. “Janella felt very alone in Tish’s office,” said a colleague But James said Meeks quit simply because she moved to New Jersey — “Obviously she needed a change,” James told The Brooklyn Papers. “I guess she needed additional income and she took advantage of a News of Meeks’ defection first appeared on The Brooklyn Papers’
Yards project has quit her job to work for her former boss’s biggest
foe — Bruce Ratner.
Letitia James (D-Prospect Heights) will be doing for Ratner, but the still-unpublicized
revolving-door move certainly had insiders buzzing.
— and an opponent of James’s. “How does it look for Tish
James to lose her chief of staff to Bruce Ratner?”
Gregory Meeks (D-Queens) — disagreed on Ratner’s plan to build
a basketball arena and 17 skyscrapers within James’s district. Before
going to work for James, Meeks was an aide to arena cheerleader Assemblyman
Roger Green (D-Prospect Heights).
in city government.
a jump across state lines that made it illegal for her to remain on the
city payroll.
“She was looking for an opportunity, and Forest City offered it.
deal I couldn’t provide her with,” James added.
website Monday. Neither Meeks, nor Forest City Ratner, returned phone
calls.