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PHOTOS: Atlantic Yards Becomes the Barclays Center
Patch.com
A monthly photo essay documenting the construction of the Barclays Center, which the Brooklyn Nets will soon call home. By Amy Sara Clark Construction on the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards on Feb. 1, 2012 as seen from the Dean Street entrance.
Brooklyn 'courts' more tourists with Barclays Center venueamNY

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CBS Local
Gallof: A New Home? Don't Believe The Hype, Islanders Fans
CBS Local
Someone offers Wang development rights at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, or in any other possible venue situation. 2. Whoever wants the Islanders gives them a guaranteed minimum amount of money that assures their profit margin (in lieu of climbing ...

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High-rise housing going modular
CNN (blog)
A third of the apartments at Forest City Ratner's project in Brooklyn are supposed to be affordable units. The project, known as Atlantic Yards, was first slowed by several lawsuits, some filed by community groups opposed to the project.

Brooklyn Today: February 1, 2012
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
This was announced at a presentation at Borough hall by representatives of Sam Schwartz Engineering, traffic consultant for the Atlantic Yards project. The idea of such a plan dates to 2006. Now, after several delays, Forest City Ratner expects to ...

Waiting for Bruce: The Commercial Observer Tours Atlantic Yards Arena
New York Observer
... over a dress shirt with no tie and an open collar, he was also underdresed for the sunny but windy chill swirling across the $1 billion Barclays Center that his firm Forest City Ratner is well into building at the Atlantic Yards site in Brooklyn.

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New York Times (blog)
Islanders to Play Devils in Preseason Game at New Arena in Brooklyn
New York Times (blog)
The Islanders are entitled to play anywhere on Long Island, including Brooklyn and Queens, so a move to the Atlantic Yards would not qualify as a relocation. Yormark confirmed that the Nets and the arena group met with Bettman last year in an ...
Islanders To Play In Brooklyn! For One GameGothamist
Islanders to play in Brooklyn!Brooklyn Daily
Devils Set To Play Islanders In Preseason Game At Barclays CenterCBS Local

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New York Times
So You're Priced Out. Now What?
New York Times
Park Slope, Brooklyn, has often been an option for those priced out of the Upper West Side, but with prices rising there, prospective buyers might consider its neighbor on the other side of Flatbush Avenue, Prospect Heights.

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Atlantic Yards Update: No Left Turn on S. Oxford, State Says No to Resident ...
Patch.com
... Sam Schwartz has increased public transportation ridership among patrons from 24 to 46 percent, for example, she said. The next meeting of the Atlantic Yards Service Cabinet Meeting is currently set for 9:30 am at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

NYU Denies Firing Administrator After She Reported Sexual Harassment
NYU Local
He had run into similar allegations during the development of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, which he oversaw. He was fired from the project only after CEO Bruce Ratneer feared other top lieutenants would quit in protest.

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Welcome. We are upgrading
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Carroll Gardens Patch reports that Battle for Brooklyn, the anti-Atlantic Yards documentary, wasn't on the list of five nominations for best documentary at the Oscars. The recent Occupy Wall Street movement gave a renewed burst of popularity to the ...

The Nation. (blog)
Is Atlantic Yards Good for Brooklyn? A Public Call to Host a Town Hall Meeting ...
The Nation. (blog)
The documentary describes the efforts in Brooklyn to resist the Atlantic Yards basketball arena/housing development project, which will upturn twenty-two acres in the heart of the borough. That has meant protesting eminent domain evictions, ...

Sports editor of 'The Nation' asks Michael Ratner, Bruce Ratner's brother, to ...
New York Daily News (blog)
... but is silent when government seizes Brooklyn apartments. “He has ethical blood on his hands for assisting his brother's taking of people's homes and lies for the Atlantic Yards boondoggle,” Atlantic Yards foe Scott Turner wrote three years ago.

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Gothamist
Atlantic Yards Not Nearly As Brooklyn Job-Friendly As Claimed
Gothamist
You guys are never going to believe this, but remember when Forrest City Ratner kept telling us that its Atlantic Yards Project would bring thousands of jobs and units of affordable housing to Brooklyn? They lied! Not only are there fewer (prefab) ...
Pols Criticize Forest City Ratner's Promises at RallyPatch.com

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Pols Criticize Forest City Ratner's Promises at Rally
Patch.com
Elected officials gathered outside of Barclays Arena to express frustration over lack of jobs and delays in affordable housing at Atlantic Yards site. By Jamie Schuh From left: Assemblyman Camara, Senator Adams, Assemblyman Jeffries, outside of the ...

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Philadelphia Inquirer
'In the Footprint': Unfocused tale of a real estate grab
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn has dragged on for seven years; it began when Bruce Ratner decided to build a basketball arena in Prospect Heights, a land grab that involved displacing more than 800 people. In the course of various battles, ...

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Performance and classical music listings | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2012-01-20
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Civilians: In the Footprint A dramatic exploration of the conflicts caused by the Brooklyn development project Atlantic Yards. Closes 1/28. Annenberg Center - Harold Prince Theatre, 3680 Walnut St.; 215-898-6701. www.thecivilians.org. $27-$30. ...

'In the Footprint': Unfocused tale of a real estate grab | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn has dragged on for seven years; it began when Bruce Ratner decided to build a basketball arena in Prospect Heights, a land grab that involved displacing more than 800 people. In the course of various battles, ...

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Prefab Towers at Atlantic Yards: Will They Look Good?
Patch.com
Forest City Ratner is going ahead with plans to create prefabricated buildings at Atlantic Yards, but can their design hold up amidst Brownstone Brooklyn? By Jamie Schuh Overview at Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street of Atlantic Yards' planned 32-story ...

The Real Deal New York (blog)
Atlantic Yards: Can prefab be fabulous?
The Real Deal New York (blog)
... remarkable thing — perhaps the only remarkable thing — about the recently released plans for a residential high-rise at Brooklyn's much-debated Atlantic Yards site is not the design itself, but rather the manner in which the project will be built.

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn takes Gotbaum to task for support of Ratner
New York Daily News (blog)
Gotbaum is the former elected official who once said she would support Ratner's plans to build the massive Atlantic Yards project, and its arena for the woeful Nets, because the developer told her he would not use eminent domain to acquire Brooklyn ...