Babs Is Coming To Brooklyn!
Attention, people who need people: Barbra Streisand is coming home! Babs will take the stage at Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in October, marking ...
Attention, people who need people: Barbra Streisand is coming home! Babs will take the stage at Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in October, marking ...
Posted 05.01.2012
On the heels of unveiling a new logo designed by Jay-Z himself, the Brooklyn Nets have debuted a new commercial touting neighborhood roots and once ag...
Posted 03.20.2012
Despite a declaration to envelop itself in "quintessentially Brooklyn" cuisine, Barclays Center will be selling "Brooklyn" branded water produced some...
Posted 02.29.2012
The future home of the Brooklyn Nets is looking to embrace its borough moniker with local food vendors serving up "quintessentially Brooklyn" cuisine....
Posted 02.27.2012
After years of controversy, Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards--future home of the Brooklyn Nets--is "much more than halfway complete" according to Bob...
Steve Ettlinger | Posted 01.18.2012
Kudos to Catsimatidis and Red Apple Group for their development the old-fashioned way, with their own cash and vision, and congratulations to the city government for making this all work.
Patch | Amy Sara Clark | Posted 11.16.2011
Claiming they were duped, seven Brooklyn construction workers are sueing the developer of the Atlantic Yards Project and a local community organizatio...
Norman Oder | Posted 11.27.2011
The media turned out in droves Monday for a heavily-managed press conference with Jay-Z in Brooklyn across from the under-construction Barclays Center arena. There wasn't much news.
Posted 11.26.2011
Jay-Z announced Monday morning that the Nets will be called the Brooklyn Nets when the team moves from New Jersey to its new home next fall at the Bar...
Posted 10.12.2011
"My Brooklyn: The Battle For The Soul Of A City", a new documentary from Kelly Anderson and Allison Lirish Dean, tells the story of Brooklyn gentrific...
Norman Oder | Posted 09.17.2011
The new decision, if no slam dunk, is more than a "minor victory." As previous Atlantic Yards litigation has shown, state judges rarely second-guess state agencies.
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.30.2011
NEW YORK — A little Shakespeare with your basketball? The developers of a new arena for the NBA's Nets that is under construction in Brooklyn sa...
Morgan Pehme | Posted 08.24.2011
New York City's campaign finance system, often lauded as the best in the nation, is under attack. The United States Supreme Court may be about to severely curtail the role of public financing in elections.
Posted 08.15.2011
Seven years of footage gathered from the beginning of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards saga in 2003 follows Prospect Heights activist Daniel Goldstein, the l...
Norman Oder | Posted 08.15.2011
The compelling new documentary does not just recount seven-plus years of community conflict over the Atlantic Yards megaproject. It shows how the media shape the public's understanding of it.
Park Slope, NY Patch | Stephen Brown | Email the Author | 1:15pm | Posted 06.26.2011
Prime 6 was only the tip of the iceberg. Hot off the heels of a fight over one sports bar near the Barclays Center, a new showdown is brewing betwe...
Posted 06.04.2011
In a 2004 press release, Forest City Enterprises pitched the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards project as a development that would "become an integral part of t...
Prospect Heights, NY Patch | Stephen Brown | Posted 06.01.2011
The opening is over a full season away, but the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets are already selling tickets to the Barclays Center arena. The "All A...
Prospect Heights, NY Patch | Posted 05.25.2011
Local union workers are reeling from developer Bruce Ratner's acknowledgement that the first residential building at the Atlantic Yards site may be pr...
Posted 05.25.2011
More controversy today over Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards as the New York Times reveals that Bruce Ratner is planning on constructing the world's tallest ...
Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011
Brooklyn's not close to "1000 percent behind Atlantic Yards." Did Markowitz really think no one would notice such a claim?
Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011
A couple of astonishing things happened last week in coverage of the EB-5 immigration visa program -- green cards for investments -- the dubious use of which I've investigated for months regarding Atlantic Yards.
Steve Ettlinger | Posted 05.25.2011
Longstanding opponents Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn and Brooklyn Speaks got a favorable response last month and will have a hearing tomorrow, Dec. 2...
Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011
The next astounding step for Brooklyn developer Forest City Ratner involves raising a $249 million interest-free loan from 498 Chinese millionaires seeking green cards.
Jimmy Askew | Posted 05.25.2011
The latest blow to Atlantic Yards is renewed legal challenges over a plan for an "interim" parking lot for 1,100 cars that would be in place for up to 25 years.
Posted 05.09.2012