Eminent Domain Abuse

Longstanding opponents Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn and Brooklyn Speaks got a favorable response last month and will have a hearing tomorrow, Dec. 2...

We opponents probably can all agree that Atlantic Yards still won't happen as described at various points along the way: not the jobs, not the opening date, not the tax revenue, not the housing.

This whole Atlantic Yards boondoggle thing is still getting more amazing.

Despite being delayed years beyond its original schedule, FC Ratner persists in pursuing its increasingly expensive dream of taking 22 acres of real estate in Brooklyn with eminent domain.

While considering a Nets arena in Brooklyn, Paterson ought to pay attention to the ugly eminent domain saga in New London. That so-called "economic development" is now acres of vacant lots.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's top court is set to consider whether the state had the authority to condemn property and force its sale to a developer...

Most observers wouldn't consider luxury condos and a privately owned basketball arena with lucrative naming rights accruing solely to the developer -- Atlantic Yards -- to be a "public use."

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their propert...

As Forest City Enterprises markets bonds for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn -- which includes the most expensive basketball arena in the country -- I'm struck by how tenuous the whole thing is.

Where are the charges of frivolity when it comes to Ratner's, Bloomberg's and Paterson's hardheaded goal of building the most expensive arena in history, in the middle of a recession and housing crisis?

What else, besides a private project, could you call a plan that has been run and controlled by a private entity while it is completely dependent on public resources and government actions?