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City & State
Eric Adams has faced less scrutiny than he deserves | CSNY
City & State
In a recent City & State profile, second-term Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams declared, regarding his One Brooklyn Fund nonprofit, “I don't think there's ...

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City & State
Eric Adams's cakewalk should get more difficult
City & State
Elected officials, Adams replied smoothly, if unclearly, “use different methodologies.” Since then, however, Adams has loyally backed the developers of Atlantic Yards (since renamed Pacific Park Brooklyn) and the operators of the associated Barclays ...

Brooklyn Paper
Hundreds sign petition supporting new P'Heights historic district
Brooklyn Paper
And this isn't the development council's first rodeo — in 2009, its members successfully persuaded the landmarks commission to designate the Prospect Heights Historic District, fearing a wave of new construction spurred by the controversial Atlantic ...

Jewish Week
Can A Progressive Upend Felder?
Jewish Week
... for civic groups, including in the 1980s a group battling the Westway development plan in Manhattan, and more recently supporting Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, which fought for a more community-friendly development plan for the Atlantic Yards site.

BKLYNER
Brooklyn's Largest Ceramics Studio Will Open In Prospect Heights ...
BKLYNER
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Greenland Forest City Partners announced on Monday that local ceramics studio, BKLYN CLAY, has signed a ten-year lease for a ...

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CNBC
Bruce Ratner deal signals decline of New York real estate families
CNBC
Flanked by mayor Michael Bloomberg, Barclays' chief executive Bob Diamond and hip-hop artist Jay-Z, he was ready to break ground on the new home for the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets: Barclays Center. Mr. Ratner was by then a ... A ...

Financial Times
Bruce Ratner deal signals decline of New York real estate families
Financial Times
Flanked by mayor Michael Bloomberg, Barclays' chief executive Bob Diamond and hip-hop artist Jay-Z, he was ready to break ground on the new home for the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets: Barclays Center. Mr Ratner was by then a ... A ...

The New Yorker
How the Democratic Socialists of America Learned to Love Cynthia Nixon
The New Yorker
Dilan, who lived through an era when development was less politically fraught and more desirable, was a senior figure in the Brooklyn Democratic Party as it backed controversial projects like Atlantic Yards. Salazar, like Nixon, supports universal rent ...

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Commercial Observer
Goodlawyas: Three Lawyers Who Challenge New York's Real Estate Empire
Commercial Observer
Hiller was then retained by the Central Park West Neighbors Association to combat Brooklyn-based developer Joseph Brunner's proposed conversion of the First Church of Christ, Scientist at 10 West 68th Street into a 34-unit luxury apartment building at ...

El Centro Regional de la Ciudad de Nueva York anuncia la entrega tarjetas verdes permanentes y para ciudadanos ...
PR Newswire (Comunicado de prensa)
... La construcción del desarrollo de City Point en el centro de Brooklyn;; La construcción de un hotel y complejo de consultorios médicos en Washington Heights;; La construcción de los componentes clave del redesarrollo de Atlantic Yards en Brooklyn; ...

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City & State
New York City is alive and well
City & State
The use of public subsidies for private gain is especially galling. As Baker points out, the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn was made possible through the MTA choosing a low bid for the development rights to the land from a politically connected ...

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Crain's Cleveland Business
Forest City closes big New York deals
Crain's Cleveland Business
David J. LaRue, Forest City president and CEO, said in a statement, "Brooklyn continues to be one of the strongest rental apartment markets in the country, and DKLB BKLN has quickly become both a landmark in the Fort Greene neighborhood and a valuable ...

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CityLab
Can Silicon Valley Disrupt How We Build?
CityLab
A 32-story tower at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn was built this way, and the company Factory OS recently completed a modular apartment building in the Bay Area. But progress has been rocky. After the Atlantic Yards developer claimed to have “cracked the ...

The Red Hook Star-Revue
RHI group issues report slamming 76th precinct, by George Fiala
The Red Hook Star-Revue
... Forest City Ratner Companies, who has built downtown Brooklyn's Metrotech and Atlantic Yards while fighting grassroots community opposition; and Two Trees, successful gentrifiers of both Dumbo and Williamsburg, and recent purchasers of giant tracts ...

GlobeNewswire (press release)
NEW YORK CITY REGIONAL CENTER ANNOUNCES COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION IN 15 OF ITS PROJECT ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
... of the George Washington Bridge Bus Station in Washington Heights;; City Point retail complex in Downtown Brooklyn;; A new hotel and medical office complex in Washington Heights;; Key components of the Atlantic Yards redevelopment in Brooklyn; and, ...

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Hotly contested 80 Flatbush clear in delineating borders: Downtown & Brownstone
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
More than half a century ago, when high-rise Mitchell Lama housing arose on the edge of Brooklyn Heights just outside historic landmark lines, it created a new wall between low-rise bucolic Heights streets and the bustle of Cadman Plaza. Already ...

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The Bridge
How the Borough President Is Essentially Backing 80 Flatbush
The Bridge
When Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams weighed in last week on the hotly contested, two-tower 80 Flatbush project, what drew most of the attention was his proposal to chop the height of the larger tower. Adams .... subject to later negotiations ...

New York Times
New Parks Sprout Around New York
New York Times
“It's a different kind of amenity,” said Lisa Switkin, a senior principal at James Corner Field Operations, the landscape design firm behind several new parks, including Domino Park, which is opening this month in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at a former ...

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McKissack & McKissack Announces National Transportation Expert, Wynton Habersham, as Senior Vice President
PR Newswire (press release)
... Penn Station, Philadelphia International Airport Construction Management Services, SEPTA On-call General Engineering Consulting, Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) Development Project and the Coney Island Hospital Redevelopment in Brooklyn.