A team grows in Brooklyn. State Supreme Court rules that the Nets can use eminent domain to throw out homeowners who get in the way of their new arena. The Nets are now 0-14.
AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York
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...
AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Opponents of the Brooklyn arena planned for the New Jersey Nets have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state agency's approval of...
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
We don't want the Barclays Arena for the Nets built on top of our Brooklyn neighborhood and our homes. It's a crooked deal -- so crooked you could see the crookedness from Moscow, or even Alaska.
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
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?
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
Imagine the city told you, that instead of paying property taxes on your home you could take the equivalent of the tax you would pay and use it for your mortgage. Not a bad deal...for the homeowner.
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
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."
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
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?
Joe Territo | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
The Nets attracted large crowds to two preseason games that they played in Newark and as a result are interested in playing regular season games there.
The New York Observer | Reid Pillifant | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
For $25,000 you can get courtside tickets to 10 games and, for one hour, you can have a Nets player at your beckon call....
Matt Rodigheri | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
A slideshow from the Saturday March by Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
Jarrett Murphy | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
Maybe you want what Bloomberg's got: the NYPD guards, the keys to Gracie Mansion, the $1-a-year salary. Are you cut out for it? Take this quiz and find out.
Gene Russianoff | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign joined in a lawsuit this week objecting to the rotten deal that the MTA struck this past June for the rights to build over the Vanderbilt Yards in Brooklyn.
The Real Deal | Gabby Warshawer | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York
The last remaining legal hurdle Atlantic Yards faces is a Court of Appeals hearing later this month on the project's proposed use of eminent domain. I...
AP | TOM CANAVAN | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Russia's richest man has a deal to buy a controlling interest in the New Jersey Nets and nearly half of a project to build a new aren...
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
The richest man in Russia, Mikhail Prokhorov, has offered to take the New Jersey Nets off the hands of developer Bruce Ratner and other team sharehold...
The New York Observer | Eliot Brown | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
On Wednesday, developer Bruce Ratner unveiled new designs for his planned Nets basketball arena in Brooklyn, an Ellerbe Becket and SHoP-designed compl...
Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new design for the Brooklyn home of the New Jersey Nets features weathered steel and glass, with a canopy that juts out like the bi...
The Brooklyn Paper | Ben Muessig | Posted 09.26.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg said on Monday that Atlantic Yards would be a better project if Bruce Ratner would bring back Frank Gehry's much-hyped designs for the...
Jim Luce | Posted 09.23.2009 | New York
Bob Zuckerman does not want to wait for the economic stimulus package to drip down to Brooklyn's quickly emptying storefronts.
Jarrett Murphy | Posted 09.18.2009 | New York
When you add all that's been proposed, planned and built under this administration, it's hard to think of another figure since Moses who has presided over as significant an effort to reshape the physical city as Bloomberg has.
The New York Observer | Eliot Brown | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
The Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, has agreed to hear an eminent domain case over Atlantic Yards, the new arena being built in Brooklyn f...
Curbed | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
In a somewhat surprising decision, the state's highest court has decided to hear the appeal filed by Atlantic Yards opponents in the eminent domain c...
The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York
New York City is known for its architecture, but with great successes come great failures. For every Statue of Liberty of Chrysler Building, there is ...
Steve Ettlinger | Posted 07.26.2009 | New York
The State Senate isn't the only place where leaders are messing with our minds this week.
Len Berman | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York