Forest City Ratner Companies

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 >>

Memory Lane: A Look Back at the Campaign Against Atlantic Yards in Battle for Brooklyn

Brooklyn Nets Want to Woo Subway Riders With Free Beer

Drink up.​The Nets have one of the worst records in the NBA right now (6-17), so fans have good reason to drink. Lucky for them, a beer might be on the house if they start taking the train to the game. The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council is looking to ease traffic that will b ... More >>

Posts of the Week

With approximately two and a half hours to go until the onset of the weekend, it's time to take a fond look back at the best posts to hit the website since Monday: We ranked the 10 Worst Things to Eat Around Times Square, NY. Chasing the White Dog author Max Watman talked hooch, cocktologists, and ... 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 >>

Yonkers Pol Sandy Annabi Charged With Corruption in Ratner (Atlantic Yards) Project

Yonkers pol Sandy Annabi, accused of corruption.Yonkers Democratic pol Sandy Annabi and two others were charged today with conspiracy, bribery, and extortion in connection with the startling reversal in 2006 of Annabi's opposition to a Forest City Ratner project in Westchester County. Forest City ... More >>

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 >>

As Appeal Goes Forward, MTA Hit With New Atlantic Yards Suit

Bruce Ratner and his Atlantic Yards project are really getting it in the neck this week. Tomorrow an appeal by landholders of the eminent domain seizure of their properties for the sports, shopping, office and residential mega-plan gets going in court. And now Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, state s ... More >>

Senate Coup Plotters' Hidden Agenda

Tabloids call it a circus, but the lobbyists' goal is to squelch reforms

Ratner Avenue! Developer Gets MTA Atlantic Yards Windfall -- and Subway Station Naming Rights

Just when you think Bruce Ratner and his cockamamie Atlantic Yards project are down for the count, they get back up again -- assisted by the city's moneyed interests. The MTA just cut Forest City Ratner an amazing deal. As expected, he'll pay $100 million for the Vanderbilt Railyards -- but he on ... More >>

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 >>

Ratner Projects Among Beneficiaries of Union-Management "Compact"

The Building and Construction Trades Council, representing unions, and the Building Trades Employers' Association, representing contractors, say they've formed a "historic compact" on 12 New York building projects that will save between 16 and 21 percent on labor costs. Under the Obamaish-named "Eco ... 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 >>

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

Pols Suggest MTA Deal Land for $; Still Seeks Missing Report

Setback for Atlantic Yards: Motion to Dismiss Denied

Newell Late $ Surge Brings Him Within $2.9M of Silver

Atlantic Yards Showdown Over the Slowdown

Lobbying Albany: A Recession-Proof Industry

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

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

Atlantic Yards Opponents Look With Hope to Gov. Paterson

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

Could the Bond Market Hurt Atlantic Yards Affordable Housing?

Who's Buried in Atlantic Yards?

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

Questions Await New Atlantic Yards Ombudsman

Letters

NIMBY Love

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

Cloudy Atlantic Yards Passes, Thanks to Silver Lining

Letters

Letters

Letters

Ratner Foes See Victory in 'Loss'

Nets Foes Shoot Suit

Ferrer and the Two Rats

Is Gotbaum Master of Her Domain?

'Times' to Commoners: Go Elsewhere

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

The Battle of Brooklyn

Grassroots groups split on whether arena plan scores for borough

The Times' Sweetheart Deal

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

Sports

The New Harlem

Who's Behind the Real Estate Gold Rush and Who's Fighting It?

The Paper of Wreckage

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

BAM's Boom

Is It Good for Fort Greene?