By Dana Rubinstein
Red Hook: What do you get when you put the future of Red Hook into the hands of some of the Ivy League’s brightest young architects? A big parking lot.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Atlantic Yards: In what is being billed as the “first comprehensive survey of local opinion” on the Atlantic Yards project, nearly 90 percent of residents of three Prospect Heights blocks oppose Bruce Ratner’s mega-development.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: A self-admitted “unsympathetic” developer is battling the two titans of Brooklyn real estate — Bruce Ratner and Shaya Boymelgreen — whom he claims colluded to cheat him out of millions of dollars.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner has called in the big guns — his cousins Charles and Albert — for a cash infusion just as his Atlantic Yards development nears state approval.
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By Joe Ferris
Atlantic Yards: On Aug. 27, 1776, the Battle of Brooklyn, the first and largest in the War of Independence, was fought right here in what are now the streets of Gowanus, Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery.
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By Rachel Monahan, Gersh Kuntzman, and Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Three community boards surrounding Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards mega-development held hastily scheduled, little-publicized and legally irrelevant public hearings last week to give Brooklynites a chance to vent.
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Editorial: The New York Times, which is working with Bruce Ratner to build a new Times headquarters in Manhattan, continues to trumpet its enthusiastic view of its partner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development. In a City section editorial that capped a string of upbeat “news” articles and unreported stories, Times writers seemed to be working off a Ratner press release. As a service to our readers, some of whom may also occasionally read the Times, we present a more nuanced view.
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By Eleazer Gorenstein
Atlantic Yards: Get ready, volleyball fans and beachgoers.
The Association of Volleyball Professionals league is making
its first-ever tournament stop in New York, coming to Coney Island
from Thursday, Aug. 17 through Sunday, Aug. 20.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Bridge ‘Park’: Senator Hillary Clinton criticized Brooklyn Bridge Park as “yet another luxury condo project” — and in doing so, became the highest-profile elected official to speak out against the housing, commercial and open-space development that’s being promoted as a park.
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