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Brownstoner
Construction Under Way on 57-Story Tower at DoBro's City Point
Brownstoner
A rendering for the building shows a glassy, modern tower with an angled roof standing high above Brooklyn. Extell, the only other bidder besides Forest City Ratner on what eventually became the Atlantic Yards development, boasts a diverse portfolio ...

Construction Under Way on 57-Story Tower at DoBro's City Point
Brownstoner
A rendering for the building shows a glassy, modern tower with an angled roof standing high above Brooklyn. Extell, the only other bidder besides Forest City Ratner on what eventually became the Atlantic Yards development, boasts a diverse portfolio ...

New York YIMBY
470 Dean Street Nears Completion, Downtown Brooklyn
New York YIMBY
Across the street from the latest towers rising as part of the Atlantic Yards redevelopment (now known as Pacific Park), another small building is just about to reach the finish line. The facade is mostly up and the structure has topped-out at 470 Dean ...

Kings County Politics (registration)
Public Funding Reports For City Council Candidates In Districts 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42 Reveal Some Surprises
Kings County Politics (registration)
This includes the NIMBY crowd that ardently fought against the Barclays Center and Atlantic Yards development. She may also get a bounce in Crown Heights from residents upset with Cumbo's initial support for the Bedford Union Armory project. Cumbo has ...

Real Estate Weekly
WHO'S NEWS: Commercial appointments and hires
Real Estate Weekly
In addition to originating and executing exclusive sales listings, he is responsible for leading business development and networking initiatives in Brooklyn, with a particular focus on the Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Park Slope, Greenwood, and ...

The Real Deal Magazine
Is Pacific Park in trouble again?
The Real Deal Magazine
UPDATED, Aug. 2, 8:24 a.m.: Pacific Park, developer Bruce Ratner's baby, is now 13 years old. And like most teens, it's going through a turbulent phase. The 22-acre mixed-use megadevelopment, which borders five neighborhoods in Brooklyn, has been ...

6Sqft (blog)
INTERVIEW: Architect Rick Cook on the legacy of COOKFOX's sustainable design in NYC
6Sqft (blog)
It's become much more accepted. You've been working on 535 Carlton and 550 Vanderbilt, part of the greater Atlantic Yards redevelopment. It's a project with a lot of history, and will soon be a whole new neighborhood in Brooklyn. What's that project ...

NJBIZ
Looking long term: It may seem trendy to build in Jersey City, but recent development is culmination of years of ...
NJBIZ
“Here we are, 15 or so years later, and you can still rent an apartment for just about half of what you can rent an apartment in Manhattan — and certainly a much nicer, more amenities, larger apartments than what you would get in Manhattan, Brooklyn ...

Kings County Politics (registration)
McCabe Takes A Bow After Cuomo, MTA Pushes His Adopt A Subway Plan
Kings County Politics (registration)
“Brooklyn is full of small and micro-business who want to make an impact in the community but do not have big business budgets,” says McCabe. “The Adopt-a-Subway Program welcomes small and micro ... The name change occurred in 2009 as part of a $4 ...

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Kings County Politics (registration)
McCabe Takes A Bow After Cuomo, MTA Pushe His Adopt A Subway Plan
Kings County Politics (registration)
“Brooklyn is full of small and micro-business who want to make an impact in the community but do not have big business budgets,” says McCabe. “The Adopt-a-Subway Program welcomes small and micro ... The name change occurred in 2009 as part of a $4 ...

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DNAinfo
New Public School Slated for Downtown Brooklyn Office Tower at Albee Square
DNAinfo
Other new schools planned for the area include a 616-seat middle school at 664 Pacific St., at the massive Atlantic Yards project in Prospect Heights, now called Pacific Park. In neighboring District 15, Alloy Development's 74- and 38-story towers at ...

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Brownstoner
Prospect Heights Brownstone With Original Details, Potential Asks $2.3 Million
Brownstoner
Undeveloped stretches of the Atlantic Yards sit right down the street, so that's something to consider — whoever buys this house will be no stranger to the sound of construction or the sight of rising towers. Listed by Marcy Wasserman of Stribling ...

Brownstoner
Prospect Heights Brownstone With Original Details, Potential Asks $2.3 Million
Brownstoner
Undeveloped stretches of the Atlantic Yards sit right down the street, so that's something to consider — whoever buys this house will be no stranger to the sound of construction or the sight of rising towers. Listed by Marcy Wasserman of Stribling ...

New York YIMBY
Reveal for One Willoughby Square, Downtown Brooklyn Office Tower
New York YIMBY
The latest details come from EB-5 presentations that have been circulating in Mandarin, which makes sense given Forest City's partnership with Greenland a few blocks southeast at Atlantic Yards, where several components are also using EB-5 funding.

Pacific Park Developer's Deceptive Affordable Housing Spin
Gotham Gazette
Ashley Cotton's June 22 Gotham Gazette op-ed “Tackling New York's Housing Affordability Crisis” is deeply deceptive, part of the long-running spin from the developer of the Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) project. It's on par with the misleading ...

City & State
Media critic de Blasio should cop to how he steers coverage
City & State
Mayor Bill de Blasio joins BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith for a chat at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office). In a recent interview with BuzzFeed's Ben Smith, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ...

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PBS NewsHour
Kushner family's real estate dealings land foreign-investor visa back in the spotlight
PBS NewsHour
PAUL SOLMAN: The soaring real estate market in Jersey City, New Jersey, due south of Wall Street, a city becoming famous for its many murals and its wave of emigres from Manhattan and Brooklyn fleeing sky-high rents. One neighborhood that's on the rise ...

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The Jewish Voice
Activist Investor Wants Bruce Ratner Ousted at Forest City Realty
The Jewish Voice
The Ratner family, which includes Bruce Ratner— the head of the REIT's New York office— controlled the company that developed the New York Times Building and Brooklyn's Barclay's Center, by means of super -voting A shares, reports The Post. But ...

The Bridge
What a 100% Affordable Rental Building Looks Like
The Bridge
(The current median price of Brooklyn apartments in new developments is about $3,300.) At the ceremonies, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams called the mix of income classes in the building “a cross section of people right in the heart of Brooklyn.

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Curbed NY
Pacific Park welcomes first residents to its all-affordable, COOKFOX-designed rental
Curbed NY
Pacific Park—or the Megaproject Formerly Known as Atlantic Yards—has been in the works for so long that it's easy to forget that people only recently began living there. But indeed, more than a decade after the ... “For hundreds of families right ...