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Not Just Nets

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Cut Ratner off

Editorial: He’s already getting $2 billion in public subsidies — and now Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner “wants more”? The Paper’s Editorial Board offers a handy place to put that request. Comments (2).

Big box for Shore Pkwy

Bensonhurst: A discount wholesaler might give Costco some competition when it anchors a seaside shopping center along Shore Parkway in Bensonhurst. Comment.

BREAKING NEWS: Post reports Ratner’s Yards subsidies at $2.1 billion!

Atlantic Yards: Monday’s New York Post reported a story that is quite familiar to Brooklyn Paper readers: That Bruce Ratner’s $4-billion Atlantic Yards project is floating on more than $2.1 billion in taxpayer subsidies. Comments (3).

Jamie is queen of swag

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner got the award, but Borough President Markowitz’s wife got the goods. Comment.

Protesters call Bruce’s honor a ‘dung deal’

Atlantic Yards: Dozens of opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum’s gala last Thursday in protest to the art institute’s decision to give the controversial developer its highest honor. Comments (2).

Houses for hipsters

Williamsburg: Buying homes isn’t just for the stuffy, old and rich anymore. But if you’re young, artsy, cool and fashionable — in short, a hipster — you still need help. One broker is offering it — in bars! Comment.

Ratner seeks … more tax dollars!

Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner is poised to ask city and state officials for more public subsidies to keep afloat his faltering mega-project — but at least two councilmen are just as ready to stop the money grab. Comments (10).
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