Going, going, gone: city nixes auction of Markowitz and Brooklyn memorabilia
City bureaucrats won’t allow outgoing Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to auction off the memorabilia he has received during his 12 years in office to benefit a non-for-profit group he founded to send lower income kids to summer camp.
As first reported in the New York Daily News, the city’s Law Department, Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Conflict of Interests Board and the Department of Records have jointly determined that the numerous tee shirts, baseball caps, decorative items and other stuff that Markowitz got as gifts must be retained by the city, and will be sent to storage when the borough president leaves office.
Markowitz had intended to auction off the items to raise money for Camp Brooklyn, which pays to send local kids whose family can’t afford the respite to sleep-away camp. It costs about $700 to send each child to camp.