Freddy's Bar To Chain Patrons To Bar To Fight Atlantic Yards Land Grab
Freddy's Bar manager Donald O'Finn says the bar will have a chain-fastening at "high noon" on Sunday to protest the Atlantic Yards land grab....
Freddy's Bar manager Donald O'Finn says the bar will have a chain-fastening at "high noon" on Sunday to protest the Atlantic Yards land grab....
Steve Ettlinger | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York
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.
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York
I put my toe in the real estate market. I asked friends what should I be looking for, and they all said the same thing, "You gotta find something in a substandard and insanitary neighborhood."
Paul Sonn | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York
When a developer seeks taxpayer subsidies, it should be expected to create good jobs in return. LA has made this approach a centerpiece. It is hard to believe that New York cannot do the same.
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York
MTA revenue is $200 million short in its 2009 budget. How could that be, where did that shortfall come from? The answer lies in simple math...
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 11.30.2009 | New York
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.
Len Berman | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York
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...
Runnin' Scared | By Camille Dodero (4:43PM 09/21) | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York