In a Streetsblog piece headlined In Third Term, Bloomberg Must Align All Agencies With PlaNYC, veteran community planner (and DDDB board member) Ron Shiffman points to Atlantic Yards:Together with private … Read more

      Yesterday, developer Bruce Ratner and architect Frank Gehry celebrated the "topping off" of the 76-story Beekman Tower in lower Manhattan. A 10-pound bucket of concrete was lifted 900 feet … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

Norman Oder has more on yesterday’s press conference by the BrooklynSpeaks coalition, announcing their lawsuit against Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Click through for more coverage … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

As he did during last month’s radio appearance, Newark Mayor Cory Booker last night steered clear of any prognostication about a permanent move of … Read more

The Brooklyn Paper

By Stephen Brown

Brooklyn Speaks, a coalition of eight community groups that has taken a backseat to other opposition efforts, filed the suit in Manhattan Supreme … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

In a post headlined Eminent Domain Ruling Expected Soon...What Will it Mean?, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn is trying to manage expectations ahead of the … Read more

If Bruce Ratner gets shovels in the ground by Dec. 31, this long-stalled project might actually happen. Read more

Photo, by Tracy Collins, via flickr Atlantic Yards Photo Pool.

Tracy Collins has posted a handful of pictures from today’s BrooklynSpeaks press conference. That’s attorney Albert K. Butzel, who … Read more

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 … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) has sent a letter to State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, State Senator Bill Perkins, and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (chairs of … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

A caption from Crain’s New York Business attached to the image below (click to enlarge):

The Nets’ new Barclays Center sports complex … Read more

Atlantic Yards opponents fired their latest salvo against the project Thursday, charging in a new lawsuit that the state illegally handed over the reins of the project to developer Bruce … Read more

Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) has sent a letter to State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, State Senator Bill Perkins, and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (chairs of the respective committees on public authorities) … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report, BrooklynSpeaks, pushed into firm opposition, points in lawsuit to the failure of ESDC and FCR to talk, meet, or bend

The suit in many … Read more

As the controversial Atlantic Yards

project awaits a make it or break it rulingfrom the New York Court of

Appeals, it has yet another lawsuit with which to contend. A collection

of neighborhood … Read more

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

by Dennis Holt

Though he almost always comes down on the wrong side of an issue, we do have to admire the crotchety Dennis Holt’s obdurateness. … Read more

Streetsblog

by Ron Shiffman

Co-founder of the Pratt Center for Community Development, professor at the Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning, former City Planning Commissioner and Develop Don’t Destroy … Read more

A caption from Crain’s New York Business attached to the image below (click to enlarge):The Nets’ new Barclays Center sports complex is an anchor to the planned Atlantic Yards development.Well, … Read more

PACB Role is to Prevent The Kind of Reckless Borrowing Envisioned by the Ratner Project

NEW YORK, NY — Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) sent a letter to State … Read more

As developer Bruce Ratner awaits a key court decision that could decide the fate of Atlantic Yards, yet another lawsuit was filed today to try blocking the controversial Brooklyn project. … Read more

Prominent civic and community development organizations and local elected officials who represent the communities surrounding the Atlantic Yards Project, gathered on the steps of City Hall on Thursday, November 19th … Read more

The Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn’s most-controversial development project ever figures in two of The Brooklyn Paper’s 30 biggest news stories over its first 30 years.

Brooklyn has … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

Norman Oder looks at the call to subsidize the conversion of stalled condo buildings into affordable housing, the debate over such a programs advantages and disadvantages, … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

Norman Oder looks at the call to subsidize the conversion of stalled condo buildings into affordable housing, the debate over such a program’s appropriateness and potential … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

In a post headlined Eminent Domain Ruling Expected Soon...What Will it Mean?, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn is trying to manage expectations ahead of the … Read more

After pursuing a non-adversarial stance for the entire history of the Atlantic Yards saga, Brooklyn Speaks, the coalition of neighborhood and civic groups, is set to announce a lawsuit challenging … Read more

In a post headlined Eminent Domain Ruling Expected Soon...What Will it Mean?, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn is trying to manage expectations ahead of the anticipated ruling--it could be as early … Read more

In today’s New York Daily News, a follow-up on the news that Atlantic Yards opponent and eminent domain lead plaintiff Daniel Goldstein received a low-ball $510,000 pre-condemnation offer from the … Read more

NY Daily News

By Erin Durkin

Hardball eminent domain tactics begin with lowballing property owners under threat of condemnation.

Chief opponent Daniel Goldstein got a letter offering $510,000 if … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

If you have any doubts that Bruce Ratner’s economic analysis and financial projections for the Atlantic Yards project are bogus, check out the figures from Ratner’s … Read more