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MAGAZINE APOLOGISES TO BEYONCE OVER BOGUS INTERVIEW
Contactmusic.com
Caption: Beyonce Knowles (Picture) Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards Groundbreaking Ceremony New York City, USA .... The editor of German magazine Neon has ...

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MTA Restores Some Planned Service Cuts
NY1
I'm surprised that the sweetheart deal Ratner made with the MTA over the Atlantic Yards has never come up. He is getting something like 50 million dollars ...

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Brooklyn Broadside: Major Development Projects Proceed Quickly in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
During this first quarter, as just about everybody knows, holes were dug for the official birth of Atlantic Yards and the sports arena. ...

Hindustan Times
Beyonce's 'Heat' Fragrance Seeing Record Sales
Zimbio
Singer Beyonce Knowles during the ceremonial groundbreaking for Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards on March 11, 2010 in New York City. ...
BEYONCE'S PERFUME HITS $3 MILLION IN SALESContactmusic.com

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Review and Comment Taking Stock at 100
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Now, as the Brooklyn Heights Association celebrates its 100th anniversary, the Heights sees a new Brooklyn springing up beyond its historically demarcated ...

Ratner breaks ground! Jay-Z celebrates! Others protest!
YourNabe.com
Bruce Ratner and a deep bench of supporters of his Atlantic Yards mega-project broke ground on a basketball arena for his Brooklyn-bound ...
He will survive! A timeline of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic YardsYourNabe.com
Big court win yesterday — groundbreaking todayYourNabe.com

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A Quiet Alarm Sounds
CityLimits.org
With the controversial Atlantic Yards construction site looming just beyond MoCADA's front door, “The Gentrification of Brooklyn” sounds a quiet alarm, ...

Diamond's shining moment amid the crisis
Financial Times
... York's top civic and community leaders took turns praising the future home of Barclays Center, a sports arena to be built on Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards. ...

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Gossip On This (blog)
Jay-Z and Beyonce Attend Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Barclays Center in NYC
Gossip On This (blog)
... ground-breaking ceremony of the controversial Barclays Center Atlantic Yards project last Thursday (May 11) in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. ...

PR-inside.com (press release)
Construction to Begin on Prokhorov's NJ Nets Stadium
The Moscow Times
When Ratner proposed Atlantic Yards before the economic downturn, celebrity architect Frank Gehry was going to transform downtown Brooklyn with apartment ...
Atlantic Yards breaks ground: Nets are the heartbreak kidsNJ.com (blog)
JAY-Z AND BEYONCE LAUNCH BASKETBALL ARENA PROJECTContactmusic.com

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Atlantic Yards breaks ground: Nets are the heartbreak kids
NJ.com (blog)
The bulldozers are scraping the earth at Atlantic Yards, and it appears the Nets' long-doubted relocation to Brooklyn is all but official. ...
Jay-Z and Beyonce Attend Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Barclays Center in NYCGossip On This (blog)
Jay-Z And Beyoncé Break Ground For New Nets ArenaRTT News
JAY-Z AND BEYONCE LAUNCH BASKETBALL ARENA PROJECTContactmusic.com

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New York Daily News
Mayor Bloomberg likes the big picture, but he should keep an eye on the ...
New York Daily News
He was in his element last week at the groundbreaking for the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn - thousands of jobs, billions of dollars (plus more than ...

New York Times (blog)
What Is Atlantic Yards? A Complete Failure of Democracy
Huffington Post (blog)
None have acting responsibly or with principle or courage to stop the largest project proposed in Brooklyn's history, which has trampled on too many rights ...
Scholars: What Atlantic Yards Could MeanThe Brooklyn Ink (blog)
Ground Broken on Atlantic Yards ProjectNew York Times (blog)
You can't make this stuff up -- Atlantic Yards edition »New York Daily News (blog)
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Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Barclays breaks ground with 18000-seat basketball stadium in Brooklyn
The Guardian
And some community activists have railed against the compulsory purchase of properties to redevelop Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards. ...
Barclays Is Now The Most Hated Bank In BrooklynThe Business Insider
A hoop dream that could boost BarclaysIndependent

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Nets Are Scorching (blog)
The 'Weghe' of the Future
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“The nice thing about Brooklyn is, it gives you instant history,” the former two-time NBA All-Star added. “It has a great tradition of sports. ...
The Record: Forget Nets, go Grizzlies?NorthJersey.com
NY mayor breaks ground on arena for Russian tycoon's NBA teamRIA Novosti

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New York Times (blog)
Complaint Box | They're Stealing My Sky
New York Times (blog)
And like the Atlantic Yards, money put a hold on things for a bit, but the trucks and tools and workmen came back. This is New York City after all. ...

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Shovels fly at Nets arena groundbreaking
Field of Schemes
More than six years in the making, Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project (aka the Barclays Center arena, aka the place the New Jersey Nets plan to play when ...

Gigwise
I Got 99 Problems, But Eminent Domain Ain't One: White Brooklynites Against Jay-Z
The Awl
But Jay-Z can count a few detractors amongst white folks in brownstone Brooklyn. Early yesterday afternoon, Jay-Z arrived to break ground on Atlantic Yards, ...
Jay-Z, Beyonce Appear Together At Groundbreaking CeremonyGigwise
Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z: Barclay's GroundbreakersGossipCenter.com
Gov's big scoopNew York Post
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Photos: Nets Break Ground, Protester Arrested for Drumming
Gothamist
But seriously folks, he also said, "This project at Atlantic Yards will yield 16000 union construction jobs and 5500 permanent jobs right here on the site. ...

Washington Post
Top 5 political photos
Washington Post
Protesters wearing large masks of New York politicians and developers, prepare to put on a skit critical of Brooklyn's controversial Atlantic Yards project, ...

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