Atlantic Yards: To the surprise of many Prospect Heights residents, enormous drills have begun test borings of the earth below several sites within the 24-acre swath upon which developer Bruce Ratner plans to build his Atlantic Yards arena and high-rise development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A developer is moving forward with plans to build a hotel smack-dab in the middle of Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards site. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A spokesman for the city’s Independent Budget Office told The Brooklyn Papers this week that the agency finally has a starting point to analyze the public benefit of developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed basketball arena, housing and office development in Propsect Heights. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Community Board 6 has prepared a list of issues members hope will be considered in the anticipated environmental review of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan, which proposes to build a basketball arena and 17 high-rise residential, office and retail buildings on a 23-acre site emanating from the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues and stretching into Prospect Heights. Comment.