Editorial: Over the last 12 months, no story has been as important to Brooklyn — and, as a result, to this newspaper — as Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The biggest real-estate project in the history of Brooklyn went from being a dream of a few politicians and a developer to a state-ordained reality this year. And every week, Bruce Ratner’s plan for a mini-city of 16 towers and an arena for the New Jersey Nets was in The Papers. Here’s a refresher course: Comment.

Atlantic Yards: From the first fireworks of New Year’s Day to the state’s end-of-year approval of Bruce Ratner’s plans to transform a rail yard into a mini-Times Square, this year had it all. Here’s our highly subjective overview: Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s boosters in Albany spent most of Tuesday trying to convince Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D–Manhattan) of the benefits of his Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The political battle over the biggest real-estate development in Brooklyn’s history is over — and Bruce Ratner has won. Comment.

Editorial: Bruce Ratner won ugly. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Resignation — a little bitter, but mostly cynical — swept through Freddy’s Bar in Prospect Heights, the drinking hole of choice for anti-Atlantic Yards activists, who saw their last, best hopes dashed by Wednesday’s Public Authorities Control Board approval of the mega-project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The three men in a room have approved Atlantic Yards, so it’s time for the post-mortem: Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The fate of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project is now in the hands of the three men in the room. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Yards project approved last week by state officials would generate almost $500 million less in tax revenues than its developer and its Albany boosters promised just five months ago. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: We attended Sunday night’s farewell gala for Rep. Major Owens (D–Crown Heights), who chose not to run for a 13th term and will leave office on Dec. 31. As we sipped cocktails and downed the delicious oxtail stew at the Grand Prospect Hall, we asked Owens’s biggest supporters a simple question: What is Major Owens’s legacy? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Dear interested party: Bruce Ratner is taking your home. Comment.

Editorial: If there was any doubt that Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development would be a bad investment of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, it was wiped away this week by new revelations that the project will generate far less tax revenue than promised just five months ago. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Yards project is a threat to one of America’s national treasures — Brooklyn’s brownstone blocks — two preservation groups charged this week, citing new state renderings that show 15-story illuminated advertising billboards on either side of the development’s main building. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner is paying the rent. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Architect Frank Gehry has said the “front stoop” at the foot of his “Miss Brooklyn” tower will be a great place to hang out and read the paper or eat a sandwich at an outdoor bistro table. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: After the Empire State Development Corporation approves Atlantic Yards — as it is expected to do imminently — the project will be weighed by the state’s Public Authorities Control Board, whose membership is limited to New York’s three most-powerful men: Gov. Pataki, Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno (R-Rensselaer) and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan). Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Brooklyn skyline has been changing for years, but now everyone is taking notice. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: State lawyers this week slammed a suit seeking to block the Atlantic Yards mega-development as nothing but a “fishing expedition” designed to delay the imminent approval of the $4.2-billion project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: While thousands of Brooklynites took advantage of the day after Thanksgiving to shop, more than a dozen Atlantic Yards protesters used “Black Friday” to highlight the gridlock that even supporters of the project say cannot be remedied. Comment.

Editorial: We’ve certainly had our disagreements with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, but the Manhattan Democrat earned our Hero of the Week award for his righteous broadside against state development czar Charles Gargano on Sunday. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: With Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project just days away from approval by the Empire State Development Corporation, anti-Yards City Councilwoman Letitia James courted Ratner’s politically connected Madison Square Garden rivals.. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: He didn’t do it with a lawsuit. He didn’t do it with a rally. He didn’t do it by lobbying. In fact, he didn’t do anything at all — but Prospect Heights resident Raul Rothblatt managed to grind Bruce Ratner’s $4.2-billion Atlantic Yards mega-project to a halt this week because the state forgot to include his testimony in its final review of the development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Racing to give their approval to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development before Gov. George Pataki leaves office Dec. 31, state officials have certified the project’s final environmental impact statement. There must be ten days between the certification and the final approval vote by the Empire State Development Corporation. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The number of retail jobs that state officials say will be created by Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development ignores the reality of his two existing shopping malls directly across the street, where job performance has fallen short, according to Ratner’s own data. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Brooklyn has its own professional basketball team, and Bruce Ratner had nothing to do it. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s sweetheart deal may be about to turn sour — thanks to the IRS. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: 13th Congressional District 46th Assembly District 60th Assembly District 44th Assembly District 13th Congressional District Steve Harrison (D) vs. Rep. Vito Fossella (R) Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A lawsuit against Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner and the state and city officials who allegedly conspired with him has little chance of success, said legal experts — including the lawyer who sued Ratner over his Metrotech project two decades ago. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A long-anticipated war against the state’s condemnation of private property for Atlantic Yards begins today. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Plans for Brooklyn first Whole Foods supermarket are getting bigger — and the gridlock won’t just be in the grocery aisles. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Several hundred walkers participating in the second-annual Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn “walkathon” raised enough to cover plenty of billable hours in the group’s legal battle against the Atlantic Yards mega-development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Without mentioning Atlantic Yards by name, Mayor Bloomberg signaled last week that he’ll side with opponents of Bruce Ratner’s mega-development in a coming legal battle against the “undemocratic” process that is pushing the project to its likely approval later this year. Comment.

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.

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.

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

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.

Editorial: All of Brooklyn owes a debt of gratitude to an umbrella coalition called the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods — not only because the group has put out the most detailed study of the state’s analysis of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, but, in doing so, has shown once again the value of independent experts operating outside of Albany’s closed-door meetings and smoke-filled rooms. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The 73-day public comment period for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project ended after we went to press last week — and the Sept. 29 deadline brought about a flurry of reports, analyses and submissions from project opponents and supporters. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: One of last week’s front page stories, Council of Nabes: Yards not so bad, reported that the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, a coalition of more than three dozen community groups, had found flaws with the state’s draft environmental impact statement for the Atlantic Yards project, yet not so many flaws that the DEIS needed to be scrapped. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Update: See breaking story. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Just weeks after Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner floated a plan to trim the size of his 8.65-million-square-foot mega-project by 6- to 8 percent, the City Planning Commission rubberstamped that notion on Wednesday. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards appears headed for approval later this fall, but opponents say they’ll just take their fight to the courtroom. Here are two legal strategies: Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Empire State Development Corporation invited Brooklynites to comment on the agency’s draft environmental impact statement for the Atlantic Yards project by the end of the public-comment period on Sept. 29. We asked our readers to send copies of their testimony to newsroom@ brooklynpapers.com. Here is this week’s response. Comment.

Editorial: We ran into Forest City Ratner Vice President Bruce Bender in front of Park Slope’s PS 321 the other day. We’ve known Bender for a long time and we like talking with him — even though he goes to town on us like we were a Peter Luger porterhouse. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Just hours before the close of the public comment period for the Atlantic Yards draft environmental impact statement, leaders of 28 Brooklyn neighborhood groups went to the Manhattan headquarters of the Empire State Development Corporation and demanded the state agency scrap its flawed DEIS of Bruce Ratner’s $4.2-billion mega-project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards will cause “irreparable damage to the quality of life in the borough of Brooklyn,” members of Community Board 6 decreed last week, calling for Bruce Ratner’s mega-development to be redrawn before it is approved by state authorities. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: City University of New York has picked Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner to build a skyscraper for New York City College of Technology’s Downtown campus — a $186-million Renzo Piano-designed facility that will include classrooms and hundreds of luxury units controlled by the developer, The Brooklyn Papers has learned. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Is there a super-secret plan to move the New Jersey Nets to Queens instead of Kings? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Empire State Development Corporation invited Brooklynites to comment on the agency’s draft environmental impact statement for the Atlantic Yards project by sending letters to ESDC’s Maria Mooney, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 or e-mailing atlanticyards@empire.state.ny.us by 5:30 pm on Sept. 29. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Evelyn Ortner, whose four decades of preserving Brooklyn’s unique character started with a single brownstone on Berkeley Place in Park Slope and ended with her opposition to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, died Tuesday. She was 82. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: One group of Atlantic Yards opponents boycotted, and another group of over-eager public speakers — elected officials — was otherwise detained, thanks to the Primary Election, so this week’s public hearing on the Atlantic Yards mega-development gave some real people a chance to be heard. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The race for an Assembly seat in Prospect Heights — the epicenter of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development — was won in a landslide by a supporter of the project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Hot on the heels of a two-to-one primary victory, state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D–Fort Greene) was happy to drill into the mysterious “campaign” of her Atlantic Yards–loving challenger Tracy Boyland, Comment.

Atlantic Yards: City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke trounced Councilman David Yassky and two other rivals on Tuesday to win a promotion to Congress in an often-bitter campaign that exposed rifts between Brooklyn’s African-American, Caribbean-American and white communities. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: If Atlantic Yards shrinks, the public will pay more. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Why should voters choose you? Ken Diamondstone 1. I will bring reform to Albany … The New York Times supports my campaign based largely on my ability to be a strong proponent of change. Comment.

Editorial: The Papers makes these endorsements: Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Still facing criticism that his white skin makes him an inappropriate choice to represent a predominantly black congressional district, City Councilman David Yassky had a donut hurled in his direction in a racially charged press conference with Mayor Bloomberg at the very housing project where he launched his campaign in May. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Note: A third candidate, Anthony Alexis, declined repeated requests to participate in this valuable survey. Guillermo E. Philpotts did not provide a picture. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Note: Despite repeated requests, candidate Tracy Boyland did not fill out our questionnaire. She also did not return repeated calls from The Brooklyn Papers. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: What should voters choose you? Bill Batson 1. My 20-year record of working in and with the community on tenant organizing, labor organizing. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Nostalgic for summer already? Have you already forgotten that summer is a mixed bag, filled with balmy evening cocktails at Gowanus Yacht Club and mid-afternoon brunches on Alma’s rooftop — yet punctuated by heat waves, brownouts and the smells wafting across the Narrows? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Why should voters choose you? Alec Brook-Krasny 1. I have spent close to two decades working with neighbors, labor leaders, local activists and elected officials to help solve the problems affecting our community. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: State officials moved swiftly last week to deny they were negotiating behind the scenes with Bruce Ratner to decrease the size of his Atlantic Yards mega-development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Stung by criticism that it hasn’t done enough to solicit public opinion on the Atlantic Yards project, the Empire State Development Corporation has set up another hearing on the mega-development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The city will kick in another $29 million towards Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards, The Brooklyn Papers has learned. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Big shots at the Brooklyn Public Library are eying developer Bruce Ratner as the key “partner” they need to jump start their long-delayed Visual and Performing Arts Library just two blocks from his proposed Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Editorial: The retirement after 24 years of Rep. Major Owens has prompted a free-for-all for a rare open seat in Brooklyn. Residents of the 11th Congressional District — which spans from Brooklyn Heights to East New York and includes parts of Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Heights and East Flatbush — are fortunate to have an actual debate over who would best serve them, rather than the usual choice between an unaccomplished incumbent and an unqualified opponent. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Thursday afternoon, the Empire State Development Corporation announced that it had extended the public comment period on the Atlantic Yards draft environmental impact statement by one week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Chris Owens wants to take after his father in more ways than one. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Supporters and opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development clashed loudly and repeatedly during Wednesday’s state hearing on the project — and in doing so put forward two distinct visions of Brooklyn’s future. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner bussed in basketball-loving kids, senior citizens and even a few of his New Jersey Nets stars for a pep rally minutes before Wednesday’s public hearing on his mega-development. Comment.

Smartmom: What did Smartmom and family do on their summer vacation? She and the kids swam in a brand new swimming pool and Hepcat had to confront his past and accept change. That’s a tall order for anyone, but especially for Hepcat, who’s a stickler for times gone by. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Scores of people hoping to testify about Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project never got their three-minutes of fame, despite signing up before Wednesday’s hearing even got under way at 4:30 pm. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Here’s what the area around Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development will look like if the 16-tower, arena, residential, office and hotel complex is built, according to new renderings created by a Brooklyn photographer. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Two candidates for the 10th congressional district stopped by the offices of The Brooklyn Papers this week. Here is what they said about Atlantic Yards. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Two candidates for the 11th congressional district — which includes parts of Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Park Slope and Prospect Heights — support Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yard mega-development, two oppose it. Here’s what they said in a debate last week in the offices of The Brooklyn Papers. Comment.

Editorial: If you judge only by the state’s seven-hour public hearing on Wednesday night, there are just two sides in the battle over Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development: thugs and nerds. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The state’s only public hearing on the Atlantic Yards arena, office and housing mega-development will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 23. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Call it the “Fourth-to-Flatbush Two-Step.” Comment.

Editorial: Wednesday marks the first day of the rest of Brooklyn’s life. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Dozens of elected officials, activists, Brooklyn residents, community board members and even some Atlantic Yards supporters called this week for an extension of the public comment period on Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project — but the state agency overseeing the project said the approval process is moving full steam ahead. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Brooklyn is getting whiter, the Census Bureau reported last week, confirming many residents’ unscientific observations. Comment.

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. Comment.

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. Comment.

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. Comment.

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. Comment.

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. Comment.

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. Comment.

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. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Rent-stabilized tenants living in buildings owned by Atlantic Yards mega-developer Bruce Ratner say they’ll sue the state to block the condemnation of their homes to make way for the project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer — who said last year that Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development should be built “immediately” — is now calling for a delay to allow the public to more fully weigh the project’s significant environmental impacts. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation, best known for its annual Atlantic Antic street fair every September, was robbed of more than $8,000 by an employee who took checks from the office and then made them out to a friend, cops said. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Avenue merchants are blasting organizers of the annual Atlantic Antic for accepting developer Bruce Ratner’s sponsorship, especially after the state acknowledged the significant negative impacts that Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards would have on the avenue. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The three community boards that converge where Bruce Ratner wants to build Atlantic Yards are mad as hell at being cut out of the public review process of the largest development in Brooklyn history — and they’re going to host a public hearing about it. Comment.

Editorial: While many Brooklynites have spent the past two weeks complaining that the Empire State Development Corporation ruined everyone’s vacations by releasing its 2,000-page Atlantic Yards draft environmental impact statement during the summer, some people have actually rolled up their sleeves and started analyzing the flawed document. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: What does Marty want? Comment.

Editorial: Assemblyman Roger Green must stop dodging City Councilman Charles Barron’s call. Both Barron (D–Canarsie) and Green (D–Fort Greene) are hoping to retire longtime Rep. Ed Towns this fall. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: The same hotel mini-mogul set to open a 115-room Holiday Inn Express on the Park Slope side of the Gowanus Canal is putting the finishing touches on a second hotel just three blocks away. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: “We are a city of skyscrapers. We are a city of towers.” That’s what Empire State Development Corporation Chairman Charles Gargano said last week, casting Brooklyn as the new Manhattan — a vision for the borough that many longtime residents and the newer Manhattan exiles simply do not share. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: More than 2,000 people — all hot and bothered by Bruce Ratner’s plan to build 16 skyscrapers and an 18,000-seat basketball arena in Prospect Heights — assembled Sunday at Grand Army Plaza in the largest opposition rally since Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal was unveiled three years ago. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Yards will cost more to build and benefit the public less than Bruce Ratner said it would — and carry with it environmental impacts that can not be mitigated, a state analysis disclosed this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development would “transform a blighted area into a vibrant mixed-use community,” with affordable housing, a basketball arena and seven new acres of greenspace, according to a new state study — but the $4.2-billion, 16-skyscraper, hotel, residential and office space complex would also put a significant strain on the public school system, already-choked intersections, aging sewers and hundreds of residents who just want to see the sun. Comment.

Editorial: The Manhattanization of Brooklyn is now official state policy. That’s what Empire State Development Corporation Chairman Charles Gargano said this week, as his agency released a disheartening draft environmental impact statement for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Thousands gathered at Grand Army Plaza on Sunday to protest Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Speeches were lengthy, so we thought it best to provide excerpts of the more-moving moments. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: More than 2,000 New Yorkers lined up this week hoping for a shot at a cheap rental within Bruce Ratner’s proposed $3.5-billion Atlantic Yards development — but many left the developer’s affordable housing presentation disappointed by the harsher reality. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Kiddie rocker Dan Zanes will headline this weekend’s big rally against an even bigger development — Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Editorial: The timing could not have been more suspect. On the eve of a massive protest rally at Grand Army Plaza this Sunday and weeks before he will release an environmental impact statement, Bruce Ratner and his public-relations minions set up a dog-and-pony show to highlight the lone element of his mammoth $3.5-billion Atlantic Yards mega-development that could arguably be viewed in a positive light: 2,250 “affordable” rental units. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Where the female’s torso would be, there is a zigzag cutout, reminiscent of a puzzle piece, or maybe half a bear trap. The claw-like shape rests on curvaceous legs, twisted in a half crouch and flexing a naked derriere. Beneath the imposing posterior lies another cutout: the smaller, missing half of the puzzle/trap, from which a male hand reaches upward, yearning toward the towering bronze buttocks above. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: How much would you pay to see this view out your window? Too late: Someone already paid $2.4 million for it. Comment.

Editorial: Brooklyn’s real-estate market — already red hot for the last 20 years — has gone truly insane. Here’s the latest evidence: Comment.

Atlantic Yards: All Joe Chan wanted to do was bring a “Manhattan-style” condo tower to a run-down block in Boerum Hill. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Grand Army Plaza is such a tangled mess of cars, pedestrians, busses, monuments and trees that it’s going to take a European to fix it. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Be careful what you wish for. Red Hook certainly is. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The city has expanded its investigation of prolific Brooklyn architect Robert Scarano to include a charge of negligence involving the death of a construction worker last year. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner has won the right to tear down buildings that he’s already demolished in the footprint of his proposed Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom forgot that parents were supposed to dress up 1960s-style for the PS 321 Auction and Dance Friday night at the Brooklyn Museum. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The “bride” will wear aluminum. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A petty snub by the borough president or a show of respect for his mother — you decide. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Sahara Meer is still angry. Place a copy of Bruce Ratner’s recent Atlantic Yards mailing on the table, and she’ll put her handbag over it. Show her the pictures of happy Brooklynites smiling for Ratner’s cameras and she’ll cringe. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Is Bruce Ratner’s basketball card a race card? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Touche, Tish! Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: You never know what you’re going to get in the morning mail: a glossy catalogue, a piece of political literature, some junk mail. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Touche, Tish! Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Fashionistas had been holding their breaths ever since Harriet’s Alter Ego co-owners Ngozi Odita and Hekima Hapa were forced to relocate to make room for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: In the wake of $66 million in public subsidies approved by the state legislature for Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner, Gov. Pataki promised this week to make it a cool $100 million — even if he doesn’t know how. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: There are lies, damn lies and then there’s Bruce Ratner’s new Web site. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A contest to pick a rap theme song for the New Jersey Nets was won by an aspiring rapper who — surprise surprise — mentioned what a great job owner Bruce Ratner is doing with the Atlantic-Division-leading franchise. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Jews all over the world sat down for their Passover Seders Wednesday night — but it’s safe to say none celebrated the way Atlantic Yards opponents did. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Developer Bruce Ratner said last week that he would shave 450 condos from the most-recent version of the Atlantic Yards mega-development — but the project is still one million square feet larger than the plan he first unveiled to considerable opposition in 2003. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: State officials will allow Forest City Ratner to use land along a two-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue for a massive above-ground parking lot. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Woe, Canada — Freddy’s Bar has joined the boycott of Brooklyn Brewery beer and has replaced the hometown suds with Labatt Blue. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: One week ago, the state Assembly approved a $33-million subsidy for Bruce Ratner’s still-unapproved Atlantic Yards project. The allocation, stuffed as a line item inside the 2006-2007 budget for Education, Family Assistance and Labor, passed unanimously — and seven of 21 Brooklyn delegates further supported Ratner by contacting Speaker Sheldon Silver on his behalf. Here are what some Brooklyn delegates said about their vote. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Full disclosure: I drank the first pint of Labatt’s at Freddy’s this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Legislators in Albany have handed developer Bruce Ratner his first public subsidy for his Atlantic Yards project, allocating $33 million for the still-unapproved mega-development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Despite months of delays and false starts in realizing his vision of building a Brooklyn arena for his New Jersey Nets, Bruce Ratner remains convinced that everything is going according to plan. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Here’s an unanticipated downside to the New Jersey Nets’ plan to relocate to Brooklyn: Wave after wave of Garden Staters will come, too. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: They swore in court that it couldn’t be done, but the state agency reviewing Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project has landed a new lawyer. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Woe, Canada — Freddy’s Bar has joined the boycott of Brooklyn Brewery beer and is replacing the hometown suds with Labatt Blue. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets need cash. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s demolition of buildings within the Atlantic Yards footprint has begun — albeit one brick at a time. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Let the boycott really begin! Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A public meeting to discuss the Atlantic Yards project degenerated into a shouting match that reopened Brooklyn’s class and race scars. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage will flow into an already stinky Gowanus Canal if Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project is built, borough officials were told this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: t’s a dirty job, but somebody — preferably a minority or a woman — has to do it. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A partial court victory by opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project may end up doing the impossible: sinking the mega-development before it even gets off the ground. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: While some New Yorkers still follow the jingle’s advice and “look for the union label,” you won’t find one affixed to Brooklyn’s construction boom. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Swamp Rats need a swamp rap. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s wrecking ball could start swinging as early as next week, thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling Tuesday that cleared the way for the developer to demolish five buildings that are part of his Atlantic Yards mega-development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: This Bud’s for you? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Plans to relocate the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn in 2008 will be delayed. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A new analysis by a noted Brooklyn architect indicates that the Atlantic Yards project is just as bulky as the state’s plans for Ground Zero. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Real-estate prices in Brooklyn are surging at Manhattan-like rates, with the borough’s average apartment going up by 35 percent last year, and units in some neighborhoods jumping by more than 80 percent. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Why did the city repave part of Pacific Street that Bruce Ratner plans to eliminate? Hey, you never know. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The biggest city in the country is really just a small town — for the developer of the Atlantic Yards project, that is. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Call it Sister Act, Brooklyn-style. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Take my lawyer, please. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The fight to stop the Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development has moved to the courts. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Carroll Gardens is the latest community that wants to restrict the size of “ugly” new buildings. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Where will all the cars go? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The building is clear, but who will pay for it remains murky. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: John Tsao may be out of gas. Comment.