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Atlantic Yards

Atlantic Yards: Camera shy
Atlantic Yards: New Yorker critic slams Gehry
Atlantic Yards: DDDB walks for buck$
Atlantic Yards: Lawmaker: Give us Atlantic Yards info!
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Development archive

Not Just Nets

Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006

Camera shy

Suit: Ratner had me arrested when I took his spy cam off my building

By Dana Rubinstein
Atlantic Yards: One of the remaining property owners in the footprint of the proposed Atlantic Yards project is suing developer Bruce Ratner for mounting a surveillance camera in his building, and then having him arrested for taking it down. Comment.

Aquarium designs are Coney’s latest freak show

By Ariella Cohen
Development: Will the next freak in the Coney Island be a 50-foot jellyfish, a phosphorescent whale with a gaping mouth or the architectural love child of a Beluga and the Cyclone? Comment.

Stop hiding, Gargano

Editorial: Just who does Charles Gargano think he’s working for — the public that pays his salary or developer Bruce Ratner? Comment.

Church conversion halted in Fort Greene

By Ariella Cohen
Development: A developer’s plan to turn a 118-year-old Fort Greene church into a playground for the rich was temporarily derailed last month by city landmarks officials who took issue with the scale of the 13-condo project. Comment.

‘Landmark’ building on the block

By Dana Rubinstein
Development: That wacky house that everyone knows as “that wacky house” in Park Slope on Second Street and Seventh Avenue, is again on the market — for a wacky price. Comments (1).

Steps taken to save mansion

By Claire McTaggart
Development: The city Landmarks Preservation Commission has taken up the cause of protecting a Civil War–era mansion in Clinton Hill that is slated to be torn down for luxury condos, The Brooklyn Papers has learned. Comment.

New Yorker critic slams Gehry

By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: A card-carrying member of the Manhattan establishment has turned on Bruce Ratner’s starchitect, Frank Gehry, calling his design for the Atlantic Yards project “a large part of the problem.” Comment.

DDDB walks for buck$

By Christie Rizk
Atlantic Yards: Raising money to fight Bruce Ratner has never been as healthy, delicious or entertaining as it will be next week. Comment.

Lawmaker: Give us Atlantic Yards info!

By Gersh Kuntzman and Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Journalists and opponents of the Atlantic Yards aren’t the only ones complaining that the mega-project’s lead state agency is withholding public information — now a local state legislator is making the same claim. Comment.

Casket company is packing it in

By Ariella Cohen
Development: Only the dead leave Brooklyn. Comment.
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