Atlantic Yards

Court Rules that Atlantic Yards Project Needs More Review, Developers Will Still Open Arena This Fall

In a feat for community groups that have been critical of the controversial Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, a judge has ruled that the project needs further review. But that's not stopping the developers from pushing forward with a central part of their plan: a new arena for the Nets, whic ... More >>

Valery Jean, Executive Director of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, on FUREE's 10th Anniversary Party

Caleb Ferguson​It's the holidays and time for nightly benefit parties. This month, we're be circling back to non-profits and art groups we've talked to through out 2011 as they gear up for their annual shindigs. Today we're talking to Valery Jean, Executive Director of Families United for Rac ... More >>

Brooklynites Who Once Supported Atlantic Yards Switch Sides, Claiming Broken Promises

​Across the street from the under-construction Atlantic Yards stadium, the future home of the Nets in Prospect Heights, a group of about 100 Brooklynites gathered yesterday to protest several large development projects in the neighborhood which they say have not delivered the promised job and ... More >>

Ratner's Green-Card Fundraising Scheme: Is This a Scandal, or What?

​The ever-epic Norman Oder of Atlantic Yards Report today closes out his epic series on Bruce Ratner's bizarre green-cards-for-financing scheme with a (wait for it) epic FAQ on exactly how the New Jersey Nets Brooklyn New Yorkers co-owner plans to take advantage of an obscure federal job-promo ... More >>

CIVILIAN UNREST

An eminent domain showcase

Robert Sietsema at Plein Sud; Sarah DiGregorio at Cienfuegos

This week in The Voice, Robert Sietsema finds the food looks amazing, but tastes terrible at Plein Sud. Sarah DiGregorio reports hits and misses at Cienfuegos, but gives a nod to the champagne punch. Sam Sifton approves of Tamarind Tribeca, which: "might rate a pleasant shrug [in Indian cuisine-hap ... More >>

Atlantic Yards is a Go: Streets Close March 8, Evictions Expected Soon

​Get those shackles ready, Freddy's: Judge Abraham Gerges has denied what appears to be the last big appeal of the eminent domain seizures for the Atlantic Yards project. Several businesses, including Freddy's, are denied all relief; others, including condo owner Daniel Goldstein, may file c ... More >>

Downtown Brooklyn -- Where It's All Happening, Eventually, Baby!

​The New York Post has the surprising story: that the newest Hot Nabe is -- Downtown Brooklyn! Yes, the zone of borough offices, courts, the Transit Museum, and crappy delis is "Brooklyn's fastest-growing residential neighborhood" -- its population has tripled in just 10 years. That still l ... More >>

Anticipating Atlantic Yards Eviction, Freddy's Bar Wraps Itself in Chains

Photos by Lisanne McTernan. The locals at Freddy's Backroom -- a cozy Prospect Heights bar with a rabble-rousing clientele -- could be found getting sloshed at an especially early hour on Sunday. At high noon, and with the assistance of a group of mildly drunken onlookers, manager Donald O'Finn wa ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic via DPixel. It was a short week but a merry one, with or without a vodka infused turkey. Now that Thanksgiving has been properly ruined, thanks to the diabolical War on Thanksgiving, and Black Friday has passed without fatalities, we descend into Xmas, which has apparently been mad ... More >>

Yet Another Atlantic Yards Lawsuit!

​It seems Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards boondoggle was getting another lawsuit just yesterday (it was in October, actually -- an appeal by local landholders whose property is being seized to make the big Brooklyn hole that was supposed to be a sports arena/shopping complex by now even bigger) ... More >>

3rd Atlantic Yards Design Emitted

​ Today developer Bruce Ratner unveiled a third design for his stalled Atlantic Yards project. (The first had been done by architecture superstar Frank Gehry; when it was scrapped for "value engineering" reasons, Ratner engaged Ellerbe Becket, who delivered a Pee-Wee's Playhouse set; SHoP Arc ... More >>

Atlantic Yards Scales Back; Gehry's Playhouse Gives Way to "Airplane Hangar"

Ratner's Atlantic Yards project continues to shrink. Now architect Frank Gehry's ambitious $1 billion vision for the sports-'n'-more complex has been dumped in favor of a $800 million sports-'n'-less plan. The New York Times quotes officials who say the new rendering, out of architects Ellerbe Becke ... More >>

Atlantic Yards Resists Court Challenge; More to Come

Don't rule out Atlantic Yards builder Bruce Ratner yet: though recent events show time is not on his side, the courts certainly have been. Today the Observer reports that another court challenge by opponents went Ratner's way: a suit against the state, charging that it improperly used eminent domai ... More >>

Atlantic Yards Continues to Not Get Built

If you're wondering what's going on with the troubled Atlantic Yards development project, the answer is nothing much and nothing good for developer Forest City Ratner. Back in 2007 a judge ruled that the way a long-term tenant of Henry Weinstein's Pacific Street building transfered his lease to Ra ... More >>

Dark Days, Press-Wise, for Atlantic Yards

As Ward Harkavy pointed out this morning, Atlantic Yards architect Frank Gehry's admission in regard to the project ("I don't think it's going to happen") must chap developer Bruce Ratner's ass, despite Gehry's walkback. Project foes such as Atlantic Yards Report are emboldened; today AYR strangel ... More >>

Times Finds Ft. Greene "Serene," Misses Housing Projects

The Times did a "Living In" feature on Fort Greene yesterday, portraying it as a "busy, blooming hybrid whose slate-sidewalk streets somehow retain their serenity" despite waves of gentrification -- though a starting rent of $1,600 for a 1BR will make any neighborhood serene. (We are interested to ... More >>

Stimulus for Atlantic Yards? New Depression Suggests Not

New York state will get some kind of stimulus money, but as a final bill hasn't been written yet, sources vary on how much assistance we'll get. Newsday says "at least" $20.5 billion; the Times says "more than $21 billion." The Jamestown Post-Journal says "$12.6 Billion in Direct Budget Relief," r ... More >>

Markowitz Weakens on Atlantic Yards

The normally development-friendly Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz actually said something almost critical of a developer yesterday. He suggested Forest City Ratner, despoilers of Atlantic Yards, should look at a "more economically feasible" plan for the Nets stadium/luxury complex than th ... More >>

Atlantic Yards Foes Say Nets Not Much of a Draw

Work Stops at Atlantic Yards

What Decrepit Brooklyn Nabe Gets (In Dreams) This Gleaming Waterfront Park?

IFC Series Rips Local Atlantic Yards Coverage

Atlantic Yards Gets Tax Break, Or Not

Weekend Peek-In: Pre-Primary Report (Updated)

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Atlantic Yards Challenge

Atlantic Yards Showdown Over the Slowdown

April Showers Bring Rally Calling for Atlantic Yards 'Time Out'

Atlantic Yards Subsidies Might Total $2 Billion

Formal Opposition: Protesters Dress Down Brooklyn Museum Over Bruce Ratner Honor

Atlantic Yards Opponents Protest Brooklyn Museum’s Choice to Honor Bruce Ratner Tonight

Atlantic Yards Opponents Look With Hope to Gov. Paterson

Spitzer Sex Scandal and YOU: How Prostitutes Impact Congestion Pricing and More

Who's Buried in Atlantic Yards?

A resistance movement drowning its sorrows during a pub quiz in Red Hook

Not Everyone is Sad to See Doctoroff Go

Letters

NIMBY Love

Fighting Atlantic Yards takes hard work and . . . wedding vows?

On the Outs in Brooklyn

The city's complicity behind the borough's soaring eviction rate

All Quiet on the Western Yards

Bloomberg Adding $226 Million for Nets, Mets, Yanks?

Atlantic Yards: Silver Makes a Deal

Atlantic Yards Foes Hope for a Silver Christmas

Secrets of the Ratner Plan Revealed! (Not)

Letters

Letters

Life in the Footprint

Voices of the fading community in the shadow of the Atlantic Yards

BAM Goes the Neighborhood

While Atlantic Yards grabs the headlines, an art attack quietly transforms downtown Brooklyn

Ferrer and the Two Rats

Is Gotbaum Master of Her Domain?

The Battle of Brooklyn

Grassroots groups split on whether arena plan scores for borough