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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 ...

New York Post
Activist investor seeks to oust Ratner family from FCRT
New York Post
The Ratner family, including Bruce Ratner, the head of the REIT's New York office, controlled the company, which developed the New York Times Building and Brooklyn's Barclays Center, through super-voting A shares. But under pressure from shareholders ...

The Real Deal Magazine
Greenland boss says Pacific Park likely to break ground on new buildings in 2017
The Real Deal Magazine
A spokesperson for the partnership said “Forest City and Greenland USA continue to work in lockstep on Pacific Park Brooklyn – we both are committed to completion of the project and will move forward together with each individual building considering ...

Slate Magazine (blog)
Does the Theory That Jared Kushner Met With the Russians to Get a Real Estate Loan Make Any Sense?
Slate Magazine (blog)
Russian banks aren't the go-to lenders for American real estate projects, but oligarchs sometimes help: The Russian investment fund Onexim, for example, headed by the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, took a major stake in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards ...
Scoop: Trump's comms director leaving White HouseAxios

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Curbed NY
How Google Street View documents a changing New York City
Curbed NY
Heck, the High Line and Brooklyn Bridge Park hadn't even opened yet. But what a difference a decade makes. Here, we've used Google Street View's time machine function to track the evolution of several New York streetscapes—the difference is pretty ...

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City & State
How Jersey City unemployment was gerrymandered to help Kushner pitch investor visas
City & State
In 2011, I described the "Bed-Stuy Boomerang" that linked the Atlantic Yards project to poorer sectors; the New York Times showed an EB-5 project in Manhattan jumping the East River to encompass an "adjacent" census tract. More recently, the Wall ...

Modern Farmer
Brooklyn's Newest Condo Amenity: Rooftop Agricultural Plots
Modern Farmer
550 Vanderbilt is a huge 278-unit building in what was formerly called, and probably still best known as, the Atlantic Yards, a massive public works project to transform a defunct train terminal into a commercial and residential zone anchored by the ...

Modern Farmer
Brooklyn's Newest Condo Amenity: Rooftop Agricultural Plots
Modern Farmer
550 Vanderbilt is a huge 278-unit building in what was formerly called, and probably still best known as, the Atlantic Yards, a massive public works project to transform a defunct train terminal into a commercial and residential zone anchored by the ...

Trees will grow on the balconies of Istanbul's honeycomb-like apartments
Inhabitat
Erik Churchill: We're going into construction on the B2, the world's tallest modular building at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn. It integrates design and fabrication in a cutting-edge way. Steven Colletta: The Culture Shed at Hudson Yards is a 200,000 sq ...

Brooklyn Paper
Garden apartment! Atlantic Yards condo building offering terrace farm amenity
Brooklyn Paper
“The sun exposure is nearly all day and so it's just a great place to have this sort of amenity,” said Ashley Cotton, who is the executive vice president of external affairs at Forest City New York, the developer behind Pacific Park, formerly known as ...

Brownstoner
Built by Bread, This Prospect Lefferts Gardens Bakery Once Perfumed the Neighborhood
Brownstoner
Comstock designed the Ward Bakery Building on Pacific Street, demolished as part of the Atlantic Yards Project. He is also ... Currently Brooklyn Commons, a co-working space, and Planet Fitness take up space on the upper floors of the building. (To the ...

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With fluctuating market for office space, Site 5 prospects remain fuzzyOffice space
Intelligent Aerospace
Anyone looking at the recent history of prognostications regarding Downtown Brooklyn and/or Atlantic Yards must have some humility. Remember, Downtown Brooklyn was rezoned to enable more office space, but instead residential construction boomed.

Commercial Observer
De-Foresting Plan: A Look at Forest City's Retail Sell-Off
Commercial Observer
In between the federally assisted housing and military housing sell-offs, Forest City announced, too, that it had sold its 55 percent stake in Barclays Center, the Brooklyn arena that was the centerpiece of the Atlantic Yards development that precursor ...

Commercial Observer
De-Foresting Plan: A Look at Forest City's Retail Sell-Off
Commercial Observer
In between the federally assisted housing and military housing sell-offs, Forest City announced, too, that it had sold its 55 percent stake in Barclays Center, the Brooklyn arena that was the centerpiece of the Atlantic Yards development that precursor ...

PR Web (press release)
McKissack & McKissack Announces Award-Winning Leader in ...
PR Web (press release)
New York, NY (PRWEB) May 01, 2017 -- McKissack announces the appointment of Rance MacFarland as President, a new position to its.

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