By Stephen Brown
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Atlantic Yards: A welter of community groups and politicians joined the legal pile-on on Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project on Thursday, claiming in a lawsuit that the state shirked its duties by approving major modifications to the project over the summer without a review of the environmental consequences.
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By Stephen Brown
Atlantic Yards: State officials have finally put a price on Daniel Goldstein’s opposition to the Atlantic Yards project — it’s going to cost the activist $80,000.
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Editorial: Our editorial board weighs in on the Issue of Our Time: What is a Met fan to do with a Yankees-Phillies World Series? Bite the bullet and root for the team from the Bronx.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: Has the state let the developer off the hook on his affordable housing promise?
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Editorial: Our editorial board offers yet another example of how state officials have failed to serve the public as they keep kowtowing to Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Julie Rosenberg
Atlantic Yards: If the seven judges of New York State’s highest court have any sympathy towards a small group of landowners suing to block the condemnation of their properties so Bruce Ratner can build a basketball arena, they had a funny way of showing it on Wednesday.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
SHoP Architects
Atlantic Yards: One day before a climactic court hearing that could clear a major legal barrier for Bruce Ratner, opponents of the developer’s residential, retail, office and arena mega-project filed another lawsuit this week, this time challenging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s mid-summer “sweetheart” renegotiation with Ratner.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
SHoP Architects
Atlantic Yards: He couldn’t say nyet to the Nets!
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By Ben Muessig
Atlantic Yards: The billionaire bachelor who might rescue Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project made his fortune in the mines and spends his time at play.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Here’s our cartoonist’s take on the latest Atlantic Yards development.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Atlantic Yards: Enjoy the new renderings of the Barclays Center while you can — because if the economy gets back on track, the look of the rippling steel building will be altered radically to include new buildings, including one atop the arena’s signature entrance way.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
SHoP Architects
Atlantic Yards: The basketball arena at the core of the Atlantic Yards mega-project is actually a money pit that will cost city taxpayers nearly $40 million more over the next 30 years than they will get back in revenues, according to a new report issued last week.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist thinks the new Atlantic Yards arena is no better than other versions.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
SHoP Architects
Atlantic Yards: The “hanger” design has been abandoned in favor of something a lot more bold.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist Cristian Fleming sees the one main problem in Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign-year promise to fix the F train.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Mike Short
Mean Streets: Critics are calling it “Ratner Road,” but it was city workers who turned a Pacific Street sidewalk into a lane of car traffic.
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By Ben Muessig, Mike McLaughlin and Jared Foretek
The Brooklyn Paper / Mike Short
Atlantic Yards: They’ve said it before — and they said it again.
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By Jared Foretek
Vox Pop: Both sides of the Atlantic Yards saga — mostly construction workers in favor and neighbors of the project footprint in opposition — were out in force at Wednesday’s hearing in Downtown. Here’s what our sharp-earred reporter heard.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist offers his take on this week’s hearings.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Atlantic Yards: Last night’s public hearing about the recent changes to the Atlantic Yards proposal that gave would-be developer Bruce Ratner sweeter terms degenerated into mayhem as supporters and opponents shouted at each other and the state panel overseeing the stalled megaproject.
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Letters: Our online readers are going nuts about the filth in Prospect Park
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Letters: Our online story about a Bay Ridge group’s efforts to ban food vending (“Sh-WAR-ma! Ridge group seeks city ban on food vendors,” June 26) received an astounding number of comments. Here’s a fair synopsis.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist Cristian Fleming offers his take on the latest Atlantic Yards court battle.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: In a twist that could be disastrous for Bruce Ratner, New York’s highest court surprised many and agreed to hear an appeal that the state has illegally used its power of eminent domain to spearhead the embattled $4.9-billion Atlantic Yards project.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: State officials threw Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner two lifelines this week in an effort to salvage the bare bones of his original 16-skyscraper office, residential and basketball arena complex.
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Editorial: Our editorial board believes that this week’s moves by two state agencies comprises a bailout of Bruce Ratner.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist has an idea.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: As expected, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a massive public bailout of the struggling Atlantic Yards project today, changing the project’s financing to save developer Bruce Ratner hundreds of millions of dollars.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards, as you know it, is dead. Here’s why.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will move ahead with a massive public bailout of the struggling Atlantic Yards project, changing the project’s financing to save developer Bruce Ratner hundreds of millions of dollars.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: A coalition of Brooklyn politicians has asked the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to postpone Wednesday’s vote to renegotiate a deal with Bruce Ratner for control of railyards at the center of his Atlantic Yards project.
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Letters: Our readers react. Negatively, in case you were wondering.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: Nine property owners inside the Atlantic Yards footprint moved last week to appeal last month’s Appellate Division ruling that said the state could use eminent domain to seize privately owned land for the controversial arena and skyscraper proposal.
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Editorial: The Brooklyn Paper editorial board restates its longtime support for the Atlantic Yards arena.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards’ biggest foe, Daniel Goldstein, headed to Cleveland this weekend to confront development company officials in the wake of the firing of architect Frank Gehry.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Gehry Partners
Atlantic Yards: Chronic financial problems at Atlantic Yards have caused another casualty on the embattled project — Frank Gehry’s ambitious design for both the arena and the rest of the 16-building project has been scrapped for a cheaper and widely criticized blueprint.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner is poised to receive new, generous terms from the MTA that supporters say could jumpstart his stalled mega-project even as a new report revealed that the cit y would actually lose money on the basketball arena at the heart of the $4-billion housing and office complex.
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By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Atlantic Yards: Rejected! Hizzoner tells the Atlantic Yards developer that no more public money is forthcoming.
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner won an important court victory against nine property owners inside the project’s footprint who had argued that the state Constitution bars the use of eminent domain for any development that includes luxury housing.
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By Ben Muessig
Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards builder Bruce Ratner gave his long-delayed mega-development a rare sign of life when he purchased a new parcel in the project’s footprint for the first time in over two years.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: Starchitect Frank Gehry quickly recanted — sort of — a statement he made earlier in the week that the Atlantic Yards project is dead.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: Councilwoman Letitia James has found a Brooklyn angle on the nation’s populist outrage against AIG, calling on the British bank Barclays to not use the billions in taxpayer funds funneled to it by the insurance giant on its $400-million naming rights deal at the proposed Atlantic Yards arena.
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By Aisha Gawad
Atlantic Yards: The massive Atlantic Yards development project inspires rage in some and hope in others — but in Guy Ambrosino, it inspires a twisted art installment.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: One of the state’s highest courts has given Bruce Ratner a big court win.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: A key case against Atlantic Yards may turn on this simple question: Does Bruce Ratner’s expect profits overshadow a “minor” public benefit of Atlantic Yards?
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By Mike McLaughlin
Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards ombudsman Forrest Taylor faced down an inquisitive public on Wednesday night — but many left the meeting feeling that the project’s troubleshooter had nothing to offer.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: Some real news — though not from the ombudsman
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Editorial: Our editorial board says that the federal stimulus package has changed the equation and it’s now time to build the Atlantic Yards arena on Washington’s dime. A rare signed editorial by Publisher Ed Weintrob!
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Atlantic Yards: Add another voice to the chorus of city officials who say that the city should renegotiate its deal with developer Bruce Ratner, whose Atlantic Yards mega-project is in jeopardy due to the economic crisis.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist Cristian Fleming offers his take on the mayor’s Coney Island plan.
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Editorial: Our editorial board says that the new calls to cut costs at Atlantic Yards are par for the course for developer Bruce Ratner: promise the stars, shoot for the moon, get state officials to approve the clouds, then build a project that barely gets off the ground.
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By Cristian Fleming
Atlantic Yards: Now, Atlantic Yards cheerleader Marty Markowitz falls prey to our cartoonist Cristian Fleming’s rapier pen.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Gehry Partners
Atlantic Yards: Borough President Markowitz, one of Bruce Ratner’s staunchest allies, dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, saying that the $1-billion basketball arena at the heart of Atlantic Yards is no longer “economically feasible” and that Ratner and state officials need to give the expensive design “a second look” so that the structure can actually get built.
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