Subject:

Empire State Development Corporation

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Andrew Cuomo's Empire State Fellows Program: Get Rich From Public Service

    Sure, only a little bit more than half of the nation's youth have jobs these days, but that's no reason to feel down. If you're a young person in New York, you can get a real nice job with Governor Andrew Cuomo that pays up to $72,765 per year -- and will train you to be a politician! Who knew that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    (Most) Brooklyn Bridge Park Vendors on Track to Open in July

    Looks even better with lobster rolls and wieners.​Early last month, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp. announced its line-up of summer food and beverage vendors. A rep from Empire State Development told us that the vendors would probably be up and running by mid-July. According to Grub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Brooklyn Bridge Park Announces Its Summer Food Vendor Line-Up

    Now with lobster rolls, organic ice cream.​In March, the newly constructed Brooklyn Bridge Park was launched with a ceremony at Pier 1 attended by a lot of city politicians who stood around shivering in the drizzling rain. It was but a prelude to sunnier and more well-fed times: today, the Bro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Happy MLK Day

    ​If your boss is part of the 28 percent who gave you the day off, congratulations! In The Bronx, some church groups are doing volunteer work in celebration and would love to have you; if they can't accommodate you, there's the Corporation for National and Community Service. Bronx assemblyman ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2010

    Bloomberg and Thompson: The (Really) Odd Couple

    Now it can be told: The surprising ties between the billionaire mayor and the poor slob who ran against him

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Court Deals Blow to Columbia's $6.3 Billion Harlem Land Grab (Updated)

    A State Court of Appeals decided this afternoon that New York State was wrong to grant Columbia University eminent domain rights that enabled it to seize land from property owners whose businesses were located in the footprint of the university's expansion. This ruling marks the culmination of a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2009

    Did Atlantic Yards Ruling Pass the Buck on 'Blight'?

    Tuesday's Atlantic Yards decision, in which New York's highest court upheld the right of the state to seize private property on behalf of a mega-developer, will doubtlessly impact the lives of thousands of Brooklyn residents and be discussed for years to come. But the court backed off from a cen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Atlantic Yards "Cloud" Lifted, But Fog Remains: What About the Bonds?

    So is the long-heralded arrival of Atlantic Yards finally at hand, or what? According to the front page of today's Times (echoed on its sports page), the answer is yes: Following yesterday's appeals court ruling, which dismissed challenges to the state seizing private land for the Nets-arena-and-oth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Ratner Wins Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Appeal (Updated)

    Bruce Ratner has dodged another bullet. The eminent domain challenge made by landholders in the footprint of Ratner's Atlantic Yard boondoggle has been tossed by the Court of Appeals. The business- and home-owners are being forced to accept hilariously low amounts of compensation to surrender thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Meadowlands to Swap Nets to Newark for Concerts?

    ​Rumors of the Nets moving to Newark to join the Devils are as old as Jason Kidd's knees, but hoops-by-the-Ironbound may finally be a reality, as early as next season. After the Newark Star-Ledger reported yesterday that unnamed team sources were saying the Nets would consider a temporary relo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2009

    Atlantic Yards Combatants Finally Forced To Sit Through State Senate Hearing

    The footprint. Image via Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots. Yesterday was the long-awaited — like, six years long — first state legislative hearing on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, with State Senator Bill Perkins convening his Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions Committee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Columbia Expansion: The University Alienates Another Friend

    [Go here for our previous reporting on the perils of Columbia's expansion plans.]As recently as one year ago, the owner of the Cuban restaurant Floridita had allowed Columbia University to use his business as a poster child of its grand expansion into West Harlem. The owner, Ramon Diaz, even let the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Setback for Atlantic Yards: Motion to Dismiss Denied

    [Go here for our previous reporting on the perils of Columbia's expansion plans.]As recently as one year ago, the owner of the Cuban restaurant Floridita had allowed Columbia University to use his business as a poster child of its grand expansion into West Harlem. The owner, Ramon Diaz, even let the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    Supreme Court Declines to Hear Atlantic Yards Challenge

    [Go here for our previous reporting on the perils of Columbia's expansion plans.]As recently as one year ago, the owner of the Cuban restaurant Floridita had allowed Columbia University to use his business as a poster child of its grand expansion into West Harlem. The owner, Ramon Diaz, even let the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2008

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

    [Go here for our previous reporting on the perils of Columbia's expansion plans.]As recently as one year ago, the owner of the Cuban restaurant Floridita had allowed Columbia University to use his business as a poster child of its grand expansion into West Harlem. The owner, Ramon Diaz, even let the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2008

    Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Atlantic Yards as Interpretive Dance

    [Go here for our previous reporting on the perils of Columbia's expansion plans.]As recently as one year ago, the owner of the Cuban restaurant Floridita had allowed Columbia University to use his business as a poster child of its grand expansion into West Harlem. The owner, Ramon Diaz, even let the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2008

    Atlantic Yards Opponents Look With Hope to Gov. Paterson

    [Go here for our previous reporting on the perils of Columbia's expansion plans.]As recently as one year ago, the owner of the Cuban restaurant Floridita had allowed Columbia University to use his business as a poster child of its grand expansion into West Harlem. The owner, Ramon Diaz, even let the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2007

    Questions Await New Atlantic Yards Ombudsman

    [Go here for our previous reporting on the perils of Columbia's expansion plans.]As recently as one year ago, the owner of the Cuban restaurant Floridita had allowed Columbia University to use his business as a poster child of its grand expansion into West Harlem. The owner, Ramon Diaz, even let the ... More >>

  • News

    July 10, 2007

    Big in Yonkers

    Columbia foe buys house organ, ponders playing it

  • NYC Life

    March 20, 2007

    Roman Holiday

    New York's ambassador lives high, large, and loose

  • News

    February 6, 2007

    The Magician's Nephew

    The goods on Gargano: A seamy tale of nepotism on the Brooklyn waterfront

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2006

    Atlantic Yards Foes Hope for a Silver Christmas

    The goods on Gargano: A seamy tale of nepotism on the Brooklyn waterfront

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2006

    Harlem Suit: State Keeps Secrets

    The goods on Gargano: A seamy tale of nepotism on the Brooklyn waterfront

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2006

    Secrets of the Ratner Plan Revealed! (Not)

    The goods on Gargano: A seamy tale of nepotism on the Brooklyn waterfront

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2006

    Ratnerville: What Economic Impact Study?

    The goods on Gargano: A seamy tale of nepotism on the Brooklyn waterfront

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2006

    Duck! It's Ratner Season in Brooklyn

    The goods on Gargano: A seamy tale of nepotism on the Brooklyn waterfront

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2006

    Price Your Pork

    The goods on Gargano: A seamy tale of nepotism on the Brooklyn waterfront

  • NYC Life

    July 25, 2006

    Life in the Footprint

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

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2006

    Ratner Foes See Victory in 'Loss'

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

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2006

    Mets to Pay Nearly Nothing for New Stadium

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

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2006

    Nets Foes Shoot Suit

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

  • News

    August 9, 2005

    'Times' to Commoners: Go Elsewhere

    Don't soil our publicly subsidized new HQ with your riff-raff

  • News

    June 7, 2005

    A Queens Ransom

    The Mets are in and the Jets are out, but where do the taxpayers fit in?

  • News

    November 16, 2004

    The Times' Sweetheart Deal

    The paper gets huge subsidy, then sells old headquarters building for a huge profit

  • News

    November 9, 2004

    The Jets' End Run

    Will Bloomberg and Pataki spend billions without legislative approval?

  • News

    March 30, 2004

    Ratner Rules

    Brooklyn Nets Plan Spares Developer Shaya Boymelgreen's Project

  • NYC Life

    March 11, 2003

    Close-Up On: Boerum Hill

    Brooklyn Nets Plan Spares Developer Shaya Boymelgreen's Project

  • News

    January 28, 2003

    Pataki's Man in Harlem

    How Randy Daniels Helped Put Chain Stores and Market Prices Uptown

  • News

    June 18, 2002

    The Paper of Wreckage

    The 'Times' Bulldozes Its Way to a Sweetheart Land Deal You Will Pay For

  • News

    April 30, 2002

    Malloy's Mess

    Pataki, Spitzer Protect Construction Union Biggie

  • News

    February 12, 2002

    Rebuilding at Ground Zero

    Will Any of the Possibilities Really Be Considered?

  • News

    December 19, 2000

    Property Rights and Wrongs

    East Harlem Suit Challenges Eminent Domain

  • News

    June 13, 2000

    Making Money Like Crazy

    Out With the Poor, in With the Rich . . . and Into Lazio’s Coffers

  • Long Island Voice

    December 28, 1999

    Revolting Developments

    Out With the Poor, in With the Rich . . . and Into Lazio’s Coffers

  • News

    August 10, 1999

    Joe Rose in Spanish Harlem

    Planning Commissioner Weighs Options for Factory Site

  • News

    October 27, 1998

    Pataki's Favorite Conservatives

    Mike Long's party is feasting at the state trough

  • More >>
VOICE Daily Deals

Most Popular Stories

for free stuff, news info & more!

Now Click This

About Us | Media Kit | Work for Village Voice | Esubscribe | Free Classifieds | Village Voice Advertising | National Online Advertising | Mobile | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Site Problems? | RSS | Site Map | L.I. Voice
© 2012 Village Voice, LLC, All rights reserved.
Browse Voice Nation
avatar
Newsletters | Mobile
  • Voice Places

    Voice Places

    Discover restaurants, nightlife, travel, shopping...

  • VOICE Daily Deals

    VOICE Daily Deals

    Get 50 to 90% off every day on restaurants, movies, massages...

  • Best Of

    Best Of...

    More than 10,000 of the BEST things to eat, drink, and experience

  • My Voice Nation

    My Voice Nation

    Join the Village Voice community and get exclusive deals and info

  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    Your local Happy Hour guide at your fingertips

or

Log in or Sign up

Social Connect:

Use your favorite account to access My Voice Nation.


Use your My Voice Nation account to log in:





Forgot password?
or

Sign Up or Log in

Social Connect:

Sign up for My Voice Nation with your preferred network.


Sign up for a My Voice Nation account:



Privacy policy