Atlantic Yards: He doesn’t build amusement parks, but 2005 was a roller-coaster ride for Bruce Ratner. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: At first glance, the carolers — with their red-and-green felt hats, their sheet music and their accordion accompaniment — appeared to be just another group of holiday mirth-makers on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It has begun: Bruce Ratner has started clearing the site of his proposed Atlantic Yards arena, residential and office mega-project. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: The company that wants to build an arena for the struggling New Jersey Nets had a bad third quarter of its own. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: If 19,000 cheering Nets fans come pouring out of an arena at the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues someday, the MTA is not going to add service to help get them home. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Is Fulton Mall the next Soho? Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: Red Hook’s gritty industrial waterfront will become a maritime-themed tourist attraction, under a new plan for the neighborhood’s piers unveiled by city officials this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Even world-renowned architect Frank Gehry thinks his design for the Atlantic Yards project — a scheme so massive that even its supporters grumbled after it was unveiled in July — was “horrible.” Comment.

Atlantic Yards: How big is Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards development? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner has reportedly sent his world-renowned architect Frank Gehry back to the drawing board to revise the developer’s 24-acre arena-and-skyscraper project at the Atlantic Yards. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: City inspectors have found dangerous levels of mercury vapor in the Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower, the landmark building at 1 Hanson Place which is being converted into luxury condominium apartments by Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s development company. Comments (2).

Atlantic Yards: Speaking before fellow state legislators at a hearing on eminent domain last Friday, assemblyman Roger Green challenged the legality of exercising eminent domain in his Prospect Heights district, where up to 11 acres could be condemned to accomodate Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A dispute over the number of affordable housing units planned for Forest City Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards mega-development surfaced several times in a short speech given Oct. 28 by Fernando Ferrer, Mayor Bloomberg’s Democratic opponent in next Tuesday’s election. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Forest City Ratner is considering the acquision of the former St. Mary’s Hospital in Crown Heights, leading some to speculate that the 3-acre site could be used for the affordable housing component of the proposed Atlantic Yards mega-project. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: A private meeting between Forest City Ratner executives and the executive committee of Community Board 2 has left some who were excluded up in arms. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A top Forest City Ratner official for the first time this week acknowledged that the development company has been paying large sums of money to organizations offering what they’ve presented as grassroots neighborhood support for the proposed Atlantic Yards development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The boos of dissenters and jeers of supporters resounded throughout a packed Downtown Brooklyn auditorium Tuesday night as the state agency leading developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards project heard testimony in the first of two public hearings on the plan. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Praising The Brooklyn Papers “on a courageous piece of work” in its “Not Just Nets” coverage of developer Bruce Ratner’s “Atlantic Yards” plan, the National Newspaper Association this week awarded the newspaper its top prize for Best Investigative or In-depth Story or Series. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: If you fund BUILD, they will come … and support your project. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: Plans for a glorious, 52,000-square-foot publicly accessible recreational space on the roof of Bruce Ratner’s proposed Frank Gehry-designed basketball arena will not be open to the public, according to a document released last week by the state authority acting as lead agent for the project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: With condominium apartments to spare, developer Bruce Ratner — who has bought out most of the loft owners within the footprint of his Atlantic Yards mega-development in Prospect Heights — may be seeking to use the empty dwellings to temporarily provide shelter for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The cash-strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday accepted developer Bruce Ratner’s $100 million bid for the development rights over 8.5 acres of train yards at the cusp of Downtown Brooklyn. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A long-awaited analysis by the city’s Independent Budget Office, released this week, finds that the Atlantic Yards arena project would bring $28.5 million in revenue to the city over 30 years. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Charging that the New York Times has shied away from critical coverage of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards housing, office skyscraper and basketball arena plan because of its own land deal with the developer, about two dozen Brooklynites gathered outside the newspaper’s Manhattan headquarters last Thursday to draw attention to the issue. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Forest City Ratner this week doubled its bid for development rights over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Atlantic Avenue rail yards, but is still offering less than half of what the property is estimated to be worth, according to a published report. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Talk about an odd couple. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: If it’s in Brooklyn, build away. Just don’t build it anywhere near Mayor Mike’s backyard. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A bill was introduced in the City Council this week that would bar the city from using eminent domain solely for economic development purposes and prohibit city funds from being used for such projects. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The same day they signed a widely publicized agreement setting aside land for developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards project, top officials of the Pataki and Bloomberg administrations signed a separate pact with the developer, granting him the right to build up adjacent urban renewal sites without city review. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Bloomberg administration illegally diverted more than $22 million in city funds, using the money as a slush fund to further the agenda of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, city Comptroller William Thompson charged this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A developer has quietly bought up property next to a Brooklyn Academy of Music theater, planning what neighbors believe will be a high-rise hotel and condo. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: An attempt by real estate mogul Bruce Ratner to curry favor among local artists for his plan to build a basketball arena, skyscrapers and apartment high-rises in Prospect Heights backfired this week when an arts group not only turned down the offer of free publicity in his bimonthly Brooklyn Standard but then went on the Internet to slam both the Atlantic Yards developer and his publication. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: As it once was, so it shall be again, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board decided this week, when it cast aside the high bidder — who offered $150 million to develop the Long Island Rail Road storage yards at Atlantic Avenue — and instead voted to continue their exclusive negotiations with preferred developer Forest City Ratner. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The future of New York City’s economy depends on Brooklyn, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff said this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: New York City will be changing dramatically over the next two decades as developers take advantage of the up-zoning that is being completed by the Bloomberg administration. Vast spaces throughout the city have already been rezoned for increased development. The most visible being the Hudson Yards in west Midtown Manhattan. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling last month affirming the right of governments to take private property in the name of economic development, bills are gaining momentum in both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate that would bar federal tax dollars from being used for projects that employ eminent domain. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: At first glance, the May 24 issuance of a request for proposals by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the development rights over the state agency’s Vanderbilt Yards train tracks seemed a mere formality. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It’s not that Frank Yost went out of his way to get involved in the fracas surrounding developer Bruce Ratner’s plans to build a basketball arena and skyscrapers in Prospect Heights. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: More than 100 supporters of developer Bruce Ratner’s plan to build an arena for the New Jersey Nets basketball team and 17 residential and commercial high-rises in Prospect Heights showed up Monday at Fulton Ferry Landing to celebrate the completion of a community benefits agreement, or CBA, between the developer and community groups that have supported his project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Trust Bruce. Comment.

Weintrob: Whether Bruce Ratner gets to build his Atlantic Yards mega-project rests not on any eminent domain decision (he already owns much of the private property on the site) but on government’s willingness to put our treasuries at the developer’s disposal. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A civic group in Park Slope that began by successfully pressuring Commerce Bank into modifying the look of a new branch to fit in with the neighborhood, is now taking aim at developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards basketball arena and skyscraper project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Letitia James is no fan of Gifford Miller. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses — even against their will — for private economic development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It’s a hard battle, fighting the man. Especially if that man has veto power, and many of your opinions are diametrically opposed to his. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: If he wants to build a new home for his New Jersey Nets basketball team atop rail yards at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, developer Bruce Ratner will have to pay for more than air space over the Long Island Rail Road tracks — he’s also going to have to help pay to move those tracks. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: If you ban them, he will come. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz attempted this week to allay the fears of tenants who may be displaced by the proposed Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Nearly 500 protesters crossed the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday evening in a show of solidarity against Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards development and other contentious projects. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards is stretching out — and into Park Slope. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The only public hearing before a committee of the City Council on the Atlantic Yards project was held in a room so small that dozens of people — including, for a time, Borough President Marty Markowitz — were barred by police from entering. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: He conquered the NBA, he’s a giant in the retail franchising field and now Earvin “Magic” Johnson towers above Brooklyn with his latest purchase — the Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer broke rank with his rivals this week by addressing for the first time in the campaign plans by developer Bruce Ratner to build a basketball arena and high-rises emanating from Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: At first glance, the media-savvy activists of Prospect Heights and the working-class families of Bensonhurst seem the dictionary definition of “odd couple.” Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz’s decision to hold a little-publicized meeting this week addressing overdevelopment in southern Brooklyn — which he called “suburban Brooklyn” in a recent newsletter — incensed residents in Brownstone Brooklyn, who say they are facing projects of a greater scale. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Prospect Heights Councilwoman Letitia James wants Speaker Gifford Miller to stop paying so much attention to the New York Jets stadium plan championed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and get serious about the Atlantic Yards basketball arena, office skyscraper and housing development being planned in her district. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Planning, transportation and budget experts say developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards basketball arena, housing and office skyscraper project could overburden transit lines, clog streets with traffic and reduce pedestrian access. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Kowtowing to demands by developer Bruce Ratner, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce this week barred the public from an official Chamber function, a luncheon where Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yards project was discussed. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz has hosted another closed-door meeting about developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal, continuing his policy of shutting out community members who have prominently voiced opposition to the plan to build a basketball arena as well as 17 residential and office high-rise towers. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Opponents of Bruce Ratner’s basketball arena and high-rise plan were left singing “Heartbreak Hotel” this week as a competing developer sold his interest in the Prospect Heights site to the Atlantic Yards developer. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: An advocacy telephone poll promoting Brooklyn’s biggest potential development project collided with the project’s fiercest opponent while canvassing the borough’s telephone lines this week. Patti Hagan, an outspoken opponent of developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards plan, said she received a phone call on Sunday at 6:30 pm from a pollster asking about her political inclinations and thoughts on the project and its supporters. 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.

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: 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: 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: Brooklyn’s sole appointee to the City Planning Commission, one of only two city agencies with an official role in the proposed Atlantic Yards arena, housing and office complex will have no voice, the city said this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. George Pataki and real estate developer Bruce Ratner signed a “memorandum of understanding” March 3 that officially spells out Ratner’s plan to build a basketball arena and 17 residential and office high-rises on 21 acres of property emanating from the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: As members of the International Olympic Committee toured the five boroughs last Tuesday, organizers from Develop-Don’t Destroy Brooklyn split into factions over whether to step inside the Olympic rings or worry about what’s happening on their home court. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Responding to calls by elected officials and activists that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority open up the sale of development rights over rail yards at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues to competitive bidding, as the agency has done with the Hudson Yards in Manhattan, an agency spokesman reiterated what he told The Brooklyn Papers last month — they already are. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A neighborhood group that supports developer Bruce Ratner’s efforts to build a basketball arena, housing and office buildings in Prospect Heights has filed a “friend of the court” brief defending the use of eminent domain to condemn private property in a case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Adding to the growing cache of projects in place for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cultural District in Fort Greene, the mayor has unveiled designs for an ultramodern, $335.8 million, 299-seat Theater for a New Audience. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner and his New Jersey Nets will just have to wait. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz promoted Brooklyn as a future home to professional basketball, the city’s first Ikea furniture store and, most conspicuously during his State of the Borough address, a dock for commercial cruise ships. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The affordable and market-rate housing component in plans for the Atlantic Yards arena complex will likely expand by 1,300 units, a Forest City Ratner executive told The Brooklyn Papers this week. Comment.