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SARASOTA FL A LITTLE SLICE OF NEW YORK CITY, SAME NEWSPAPER SAME CHIEF OF POLICE SAME HIGH END REAL ESTATE, EVEN THE 9/11 HIJACKERS VACATIONED HERE.

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SARASOTA FL A LITTLE SLICE OF NEW YORK CITY, SAME NEWSPAPER SAME CHIEF OF POLICE SAME HIGH END REAL ESTATE, EVEN THE 9/11 HIJACKERS VACATIONED HERE.

If you are an Upper East Side, West side or Central Park South denizen then Sarasota Fl is the place for your second (or third) home away from home.

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is the daily newspaper located in Sarasota, Florida. It is owned by The New York Times Company and part of its regional news group.. The Sarasota Herald Tribune, as solely owned by the New York Times, runs all the Times articles with their heavy handed left wing slant on life (when their not revealing the secrets of the US Military or the FBI), if it is the Times today it is in the Herald Tribune the same day, only with some slight additions of local news on the front page, it helps cut down on paying for those pesky local columnists or reporters.

Oddly enough The New York Times Company owns the Boston Red Sox Baseball team and Fenway Park the forever rivals of the hometown New York Yankees, Sarasota was home for spring training for the Boston Red Sox for 14 years in the 1940’s and 1950’s, (the New York Yankees have spring training up the road in Tampa).

Sarasota, Florida, where former Queens New York precinct Commander Peter Abbott, (now Chief of Police in Sarasota) has slashed crime by double digits over a two year period. However, Police Chief Peter Abbott was put on administrative leave in July /09 over the mishandled criminal investigation of an officer who was recorded on video kicking a handcuffed man (who was drunk and covered with urine and vomit). City Manager Bob Bartolotta said Abbott would remain on paid leave pending the outcome of an administrative investigation. The move came the day the Herald-Tribune reported that the lead detective in the criminal case was told to take “$400 cash for an instant settlement” to his first interview with the man who was kicked, Juan G. Perez, 21 (the drunk who was covered with urine and vomit).

Mohamed Atta and at least four other of the 9/11 hijackers spent at least 12 months in Sarasota County buying a used car and taking flying lessons in Venice Fl, living in Nokomis Fl and hanging out on Siesta Key and in the downtown clubs of Sarasota (all in Sarasota County) and then attacking New York City with a suicide commercial aircraft attack on 9/11/2001.

New York City has ultimate ponzi scammer Bernie Madoff, Sarasota has mini-me ponzi scammer Art Nadel. New York City has apartments with “The Park View” for only $3,000,000 plus upkeep, Sarasota has condo’s for only $3,000,000 plus upkeep with a Bay Front View (see above). Sarasota, where if you drive a BMW you are as commonplace as a VW among the Rolls Royce, Mercedes, Maserati’s, Bentleys, Lambo’s and just about every high end exotic vehicle you have ever heard of and some you haven’t.

New York City had the Queen of Mean Leona Helmsley who was a billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname “Queen of Mean”, Leanoa Hemsley had her winter home in Sarasota at her Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel. Sarasota now has her dog “Trouble” living on only $2,000,000 on Lido Beach at the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel.

New York has it’s art and museums and Sarasota has it’s John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. New York City has the Ballet and so does Sarasota. The Sarasota Ballet is announcing a revised 2009-2010 season which takes advantage of various cost-saving measures made possible by the generous support of international ballet stars and choreographers. New York has the Opera and so does Sarasota, the Sarasota Opera House is an intimate venue on the scale of European opera houses with less than 1,200 seats. The acoustics in the theater are superb and there is not a bad seat in the house. It’s small scale means that our audience is closer and more a part of the action than in a larger opera house.

Sarasota Fl much like New York City, just on a smaller scale.

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