The Wall Street Journal

by Laura Kusisto

The huge Ridge Hill open-air shopping center in Yonkers, which initially leased slowly, has cut a deal to beef up … Read more

The L Magazine

by Josh Kurp

Four months from Memorial Day, on September 28, 2012, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center will host its very first event: a Jay-Z concert. … Read more

Daily Kos

Why, Minneapolites might get a brand-new football stadium! Why might that be bad?

FYI - this rally announcement is propagating on facebook and the … Read more

Huff Post New York

by Ellen Freudenheim

I’d never heard of Samuel I. Schwartz before this morning’s coffee and The New York Times.

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Atlantic Yards Report

Following up my coverage of the May 22 public meeting on the Barclays Center Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plan, I want to focus on … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

Like a fleeting Sparks, this guy couldn’t be bothered to hang around for long.

A key Barclays Center figure, General Manager John Sparks, … Read more

1,200+ associates nationwide participate in ninth annual Forest City Community Day

Forest City Enterprises Press Release

Forest City Community Day sounds like something straight out of The Office. … Read more

Gothamist

by Garth Johnston

We already knew that the Barclays Center over at the Atlantic Yards was going to have half the parking it originally promised, but … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

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

Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn

We received news yesterday that Everett Ortner, who amongst so much else was a DDDB Advisory Board member, has passed away.

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Atlantic Yards Report

“We might be able to put a ticket on a MetroCard, but we might not be able to put a MetroCard on a ticket,” … Read more

Streetsblog

by Noah Kazis

The MTA will be adding extra transit service on Barclays Center game nights. But past promises of free or discounted MetroCards for arena-goers … Read more

The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]

by Kyle Thomas McGovern

A broken Atlantic Yards promise? Now there’s a shocker.

Barclays Center officials have quietly abandoned a proposal … Read more

The teen idol will perform his first major Brooklyn show in November.

Park Slope Patch

by Jamie Schuh

Hide your teenagers, or invest in some heavy … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

Schwartz (aka “Gridlock Sam”) and others fielded numerous questions from the public, read by Community Board 6 District Manager Craig Hammerman and culled mainly … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

While the MTA and LIRR will add transit service after Barclays Center events to encourage use of the adjacent transit hub, and arena operators … Read more

BrooklynSpeaks

The BrooklynSpeaks sponsors expressed frustration with the Atlantic Yards Transportation Demand Management Plan (TDM), released today nearly six months after its initially scheduled announcement, and only … Read more

Park Slope Patch

by Amy Sara Clark

Patch was covering the blow-by-blow last night.

6:15 p.m.: The ESDC’s Arana Hankin is introducing the plan to a … Read more

2nd Ave. Sagas

by Benjamin Kabak

Last night, the major stakeholders in the project gathered in Brooklyn to discuss the infrastructure impact the project will have. Led … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

Forest City Ratner and its transportation consultancy, Sam Schwartz Engineering, released the long-delayed Barclays Center Transportation Demand Management plan, which, depsite the long delay, was shockingly … Read more

SFist

by Andrew Dalton

Congratulations, San Francisco! You’re getting your very own privately funded [wink, wink] pro basketball arena!

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, Mayor Ed Lee … Read more

Sports ITeam Blog [NYDailyNews.com]

by Michael O’Keeffe

Better add The Biebs to the salutation.

Democracy is coming to the U.S.A., according to a song by Leonard … Read more

USA Today

by Michael McCarthy

You’d think they were going to be playing softball in the Barclays Center...

[Bruce] Ratner gave USA TODAY Sports the final … Read more

The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]

The Nets may be the doormats of the National Basketball Association, but their courtside dancers are second to none. And on Saturday, … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

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 … Read more

Before Playing Barclays Arena Superstars Urged to Learn About History Behind Despised Atlantic Yards Project

Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn

Dear Ms. Streisand and Mr. Cohen:  … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

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, … Read more

Atlantic Yards Report

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 … Read more

The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]

by Gersh Kuntzman

For a second there, we thought the Feds had finally indicted Bruce Ratner.

It was a big week … Read more

The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]

by Kyle Thomas McGovern

In the second installment of our new Building Blocks column, The Local spoke with Peter Vitakis, the president … Read more