Thanks to some uncurious and ahistorical reporting, mainly from the New York Times (and those who relied on it), Forest City Ratner’s belatedly-released Transportation Demand Management plan for the Barclays … Read more

Sam Schwartz photo and set by Tracy CollinsFollowing up my coverage of the May 22 public meeting on the Barclays Center Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan, I want to focus … Read more

A key Barclays Center figure, General Manager John Sparks, made brief appearances at two meetings (morning and evening) May 22 regarding the Barclays Center Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan. In both … Read more

Update: I queried the ESD yesterday about the answer below, and Arana Hankin, Director, Atlantic Yards Project, responded this morning: “We will post a corrected answer to this question as … Read more

“We might be able to put a ticket on a MetroCard, but we might not be able to put a MetroCard on a ticket,” Forest City Ratner executive Jane Marshall … Read more

Perhaps 100 people attended last night’s presentation of the Atlantic Yards Transportation Demand Management (TDM) at Borough Hall, a relatively small number. Perhaps it’s because activism around the arena has … Read more

(Here’s coverage from the evening meeting, with Q&A.)Sam SchwartzWhile the MTA and LIRR will add transit service after Barclays Center events to encourage use of the adjacent transit hub, and … Read more

This morning’s Atlantic Yards District Service Cabinet meeting was almost exclusively about the Transportation Demand Management plan that aims to get arena-goers to use public transit.But Lolita Jackson, the mayor’s … Read more

Transportation consultant Sam Schwartz (aka Gridlock Sam) is well-respected, and for good reason: he has a distinguished career in the public sector and the private sector. But he also works for his clients, … Read more

There’s a big meeting tonight at 6 pm at Borough Hall for the public to respond to the belated release about the Barclays Center Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan, and … Read more

Last night, on Brooklyn Independent Television’s Intersect, on the BCAT TV Network, Lori Raphael, Director of External Affairs at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and James E. Caldwell, President and CEO of … Read more

The latest two-week Atlantic Yards Construction Alert, dated 5/21/12 (and embedded below) and released today by Empire State Development after preparation by Forest City Ratner, quietly reveals that noisy jackhammering … Read more

Crain’s Cleveland Business, in Forest City overdue on Terminal Tower loan: Developer houses 500 workers in city icon, reports (sub. required):A $38 million loan secured by Terminal Tower, the Public … Read more

Tomorrow we’re supposed to learn about the Transportation Demand Management plan for the Barclays Center, first at a 9:30 meeting of the Atlantic Yards District Service Cabinet, then at a … Read more

I reported April 30 that, despite estimates that 150 to 200 of the promised 2000 jobs at the Barclays Center would be full-time, a more precise prediction was 105, according to … Read more

Ginia Bellafante’s Big City column yesterday in the New York Times Metropolitan section, The Neighborhood Drinking Problem, raised the question: “Should we think harder about drinking as a matter of … Read more

City Planning Commissioner Chairwoman Amanda Burden a mostly laudatory profile in today’s New York Times Metropolitan section, Amanda Burden Wants to Remake New York. She Has 19 Months Left., which … Read more

On the day of the annual Park Slope House Tour, here’s a reflection on Park Slope in the 1970s, written for Dominion of New York in reaction to the Trayvon … Read more

Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen’s coming to the Barclays Center on December 20, sure to attract a large if not sold-out house.After all, he’s a legend. As the promo describes it, … Read more

Coming Tuesday, May 22,  as noted in the announcement at right, is the belated meeting on the Barclays Center Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan, at 6 pm at Borough Hall.Beyond … Read more

The Real Deal’s May issue offers Where real estate meets politics: A look at former City Hall politicos who wield big influence in the industry:With Mayor Michael Bloomberg nearing the end … Read more

The Regional Plan Association has just issued Building the Next New York: Recommendations for Large Real Estate Projects, which offers some sober criticisms of Atlantic Yards while analyzing a range … Read more

From Atlantic Yards Watch, Railyard lights and construction may extend to 24 hours through June, there’s new evidence that getting the neighborhood ready for the Barclays Center will go down … Read more

Some keeping watch on the recent Yonkers corruption trial, in which former Council Member Sandy Annabi and her political mentor, Zehy Jereis, were convicted, had to wonder why developer Forest … Read more

Yes, the luxury suites and sponsorships needed to pay for the enormously expensive Barclays Center are part of a questionable trend. So is the credit to the Barclays Nets Community Alliance for … Read more

In MTA updates subway maps to include Barclays Center, the New York Post’s Brooklyn blog has a mini-scoop, except it missed the MTA’s sloppy work:Next stop, Barclays Center!The MTA has … Read more

Empire State Development, the state agency overseeing Atlantic Yards, today issued a Supplemental Report to its regular two-week Construction Updates.The gist: floodlights at the Vanderbilt Yard that are supposed* to … Read more

“Late-night comedian and Brooklyn native Jimmy Kimmel is taking his show on the road to broadcast from his home borough this fall,” reported the Daily News today.”Jimmy Kimmel is heading … Read more

After Empire State Development announced that the Block 1129 parking lot would be cut at least in half from 1100 spaces, I asked the agency’s Arana Hankin what would happened … Read more

Yes, Empire State Development (ESD), the state agency overseeing Atlantic Yards, is not accepting defeat. It is seeking to appeal a unanimous loss last month in the Appellate Division, which … Read more