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WBAI staffers accuse parent
company of lying about debts
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The nation’s largest open-air food market,
Smorgasburg, is moving indoors
to a Williamsburg venue next month.
The weekly grub fair will open at
25 Kent Ave., between N. 12 and N. 13th
streets, on the second fl oor on Nov. 2, a
staffer working inside the building told
this reporter.
Smorgasburg’s alfresco events will
run Saturdays in East River State Park
and Sundays in Prospect Park until the
end of October, before switching over to
the new indoor venue without missing a
beat the following weekend.
The nine-story offi ce tower at 25
Kent Ave. — located just a few blocks
away from East River State Park — has
served local thrill-seekers as an events
venue ever since it opened earlier this
year, and is currently home to Halloween
Mimi Rosenberg (shouting), Borough President
Eric Adams, and Councilwoman Laurie
Cumbo joined WBAI supporters on Oct. 15 to
protest Pacifi ca’s sudden closure of the station.
Photo by Rose Adams
themed pooch wonderland “Best
Dog Day Ever,” where furballs can dress
up in costume and drink non-alcoholic
beer.
An exhibition on street art and graffi
ti also showed at the building in June,
Gothamist reported .
Last winter, the foodie organizers
moved their emporium to Fort Greene’s
Atlantic Center Mall on weekends,
along with a night market on Fridays
at the Williamsburg event space Villain,
with music performances and art
exhibits curated by the media company
Vice Media. That year’s indoor market
featured about a quarter of the 100 vendors
that hawked treats outdoors previously.
Smorgasburg’s organizers did not
immediately return requests for comment.
BY ROSE ADAMS
The national nonprofi t radio company
attempting to shutdown Brooklyn’s beloved
99.5 FM WBAI lied to the public
about debts owed by its listener-funded
broadcast, according to executives at
the radio station, who claim their taxexempt
overseers simply want to strip
the station for parts.
“The four-million-dollar fi gure is
a complete and total fi ction,” said Alex
Steinberg, a member of the local and national
station boards that oversee WBAI
and Pacifi ca. “They just created it to
make WBAI look like a deadbeat.”
Big shots at the California-based
Pacifi ca Foundation claimed WBAI was
drowning in $4 million of debt after they
fi red most of radio station’s Boerum
Hill-based staff and took over the station’s
programming.
But the $4 million fi gure claimed by
Pacifi ca is complete bogus, according
WBAI general manager Berthold Reimers,
who said the station only owes
$700,000 to Pacifi ca and other outside
lenders.
Steinberg accused Pacifi ca’s new director,
John Vernile, of making a rouge
decision to close the station — and circulating
the exaggerated debt as justifi cation
— in an elaborate scheme to sell the
station’s 99.5 FM signal, which is worth
between $20 and $40 million.
“Their game plan, I believe, is to sell
the signal,” said Steinberg.
But higher-ups at Pacifi ca claim that
the WBAI’s leadership has mismanaged
the station’s fi nances to the point of no
return, and that Pacifi ca no longer had
enough funds to pay the station’s staff.
“The other stations are not generating
suffi cient income to be able to continue
paying for WBAI’s employees,
and, in fact, the Foundation as a whole
has insuffi cient income to continue paying
for WBAI’s payroll,” wrote Pacifi ca
board member Bill Crosier on Oct. 12.
A 2017 audit of the Pacifi ca’s fi -
nances posted on the nonprofi t’s website
states that previous WBAI debts
forced the parent company to take out
a $3.46 million loan — and that the station
still had a number of other outstanding
payments.
Still, WBAI broadcasters argue
that personal disagreements, rather
than debt, caused the shutdown, citing
a dispute that blew up in September
after longtime host Mimi Rosenberg
cried out “Shut down Trump” — which
executives at the station’s parent company
feared would threaten their Federal
Communications Commission license,
according to Arthur Schwartz,
a lawyer and broadcaster with WBAI.
“This is about content. It’s not about
fi nances,” said Schwartz.
After the abrupt shutdown on Oct.
7, WBAI fi led an injunction against
Pacifi ca, arguing that the company
violated its own bylaws by shuttering
the station without board notice or approval.
Smorgasburg moves inside for the winter
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