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Brooklyn Daily
Gentri-film-cation: Brooklyn's filmmakers turn the lens on development
Brooklyn Daily
“The Domino Effect” is joined by “Gut Renovation,” about the 2005 rezoning of Williamsburg and gentrification; “My Brooklyn,” which looks at the 2004 rezoning of the Fulton Mall; “The Battle for Brooklyn,” about the Atlantic Yards project and the use ...

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BrooklynPapers.com
Gentri-film-cation: Brooklyn's filmmakers turn the lens on development
BrooklynPapers.com
“The Domino Effect” is joined by “Gut Renovation,” about the 2005 rezoning of Williamsburg and gentrification; “My Brooklyn,” which looks at the 2004 rezoning of the Fulton Mall; “The Battle for Brooklyn,” about the Atlantic Yards project and the use ...

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On the Culture Front: Ben Howard, Punch Brothers, Belleville, The Flick and more
Huffington Post (blog)
As a lot of people who love Brooklyn, I was pretty opposed to the Atlantic Yards project, but it seems to have potential to be a positive addition to the cultural landscape. Mumford played a long slew of their most popular songs ("I Will Wait", etc ...

New York Times (blog)
The Day: Tree Guards, Video Awards and Arena Football
New York Times (blog)
In other Barclays Center news, we saw an Atlantic Yards Report post questioning the possibility of football at the arena. A two- team expansion on the Arena Football League's horizon has raised the question of what markets the teams will end up in ...

Rising Star: Fried Frank's Tal Golomb
Law360 (subscription)
At the relatively young age of 36, Golomb has played key roles in advising clients in at least five major projects that landed him on the Law360 Rising Star list: the $12 billion Hudson Yards development, the Barclays Center-anchored Atlantic Yards in ...

Daniels Faculty Midday Talk with Urban Designer Marshall Brown
blogTO (blog)
In 2003 he founded the Yards Development Workshop, a studio that set out to hi-jack Frank Gehry's Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. He also recently founded the urbanism, art and culture think tank NEW PROJECTS ( www.new-projects.org ) in ...

New York Times
Flexibility and Moxie Can Save West Side
New York Times
For Governor Cuomo — who has the authority to initiate and approve an urban development project akin to the one at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, which could simply require the Garden to move — Penn Station may seem a quagmire. But getting behind an ...

Men's basketball slated for 2013 Barclay's Center Classic
Penn State News
The 17,732-seat arena is the home of the Brooklyn Nets and hosted the A-10 Tournament. It is the center of the Atlantic Yards commercial and residential development project in Brooklyn. The Lions will be competing in their third in-season tournament ...

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Tech Part of Field for 2013 Barclays Center Classic
Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site
The 17,732-seat arena is the home of the Brooklyn Nets and hosted the Atlantic-10 Conference Tournament. It is the center of the Atlantic Yards commercial and residential development project in Brooklyn. Tech has played in a big early season event each ...

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GoPSUsports.com
Penn State Slated For Barclays Center Classic
GoPSUsports.com
The 17,732-seat arena is the home of the Brooklyn Nets and hosted the A-10 Tournament. It is the center of the Atlantic Yards commercial and residential development project in Brooklyn. The Lions will be competing in their third in-season tournament ...

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A New Role for Local Church
New York Times (blog)
The combination of the church's size and location, just blocks from the Atlantic Yards development and reinvigorated Clinton Hill, made St. Joseph's an ideal choice to serve as a co-cathedral of the diocese, which covers Brooklyn and Queens and ...

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New York Times
More Units Going Up in a Snap
New York Times
... first residential tower at the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn helped to shine a spotlight on this method of construction, and New York City, in announcing the winner of its first microunit apartment building design contest, has chosen a ...

Gowanus Rents Skyrocket To $8500, Bushwick Up To $3000 A Month
Gothamist
They all own multiple buildings, (remember, they used to be dirt cheap) and are taking advantage of the lack of REGULATION in Brooklyn. Don't believe the "renovations" and shiny exteriors, and yes, that is the smell of gas wafting through the walls of ...

On the Market: More Than Enough Billionaires To Go Around; Daily News ...
New York Observer
Opponents and allies agree: Ratner is dragging its heels on the next phase of Atlantic Yards. [Bk Paper] Guggenheim taps real estate exec ... Brooklyn readers rally around Pacific branch of public library, protest demolition. [Bk Paper] Only the lonely ...

Atlantic Yards foes: Finish this project sooner rather than even later
Brooklyn Daily
Atlantic Yards critics and supporters have finally found something they can agree on: Forest City Ratner needs to get the job done already. Project foes are pressing the developer to finish the second phase of the much-delayed mega-project — 11 ...

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BrooklynPapers.com
Atlantic Yards foes: Finish this project sooner rather than even later
BrooklynPapers.com
Atlantic Yards critics and supporters have finally found something they can agree on: Forest City Ratner needs to get the job done already. Project foes are pressing the developer to finish the second phase of the much-delayed mega-project — 11 ...

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Big Spenders: Major League Soccer was New York's Biggest Spending Lobbyist ...
Once A Metro
If the Atlantic Yards sounds familiar, it's because the Barclays Center, where the Brooklyn Nets play, was part of the development. Oh, yeah and there was a whole eminent domain thing. They made a movie about it. So none of this should be particularly ...

Atlantic Yards-Area Civic Groups Urge State to Bring in More Developers
Patch.com
A coalition of Atlantic Yards-area civic groups are urging state officials to consider the idea of bringing in additional developers to speed construction at Atlantic Yards. Brooklyn Speaks issued a news release on the issue Wednesday morning in ...
Atlantic Yards Foes Demand Return To 10-Year Project PlanLaw360 (subscription)

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Atlantic Yards-Area Civic Groups Urge State to Bring in More Developers
Patch.com
A coalition of Atlantic Yards-area civic groups are urging state officials to consider the idea of bringing in additional developers to speed construction at Atlantic Yards. Brooklyn Speaks issued a news release on the issue Wednesday morning in ...
Atlantic Yards Foes Demand Return To 10-Year Project PlanLaw360 (subscription)

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Bruce Ratner's Home Courtship
Tablet Magazine
“To do it in Brooklyn was something that just seemed right.” As it happened, Perlman's old friend Bruce Ratner—the developer behind Barclays Center and its companion housing development, Atlantic Yards—had been thinking about bringing a Jewish act to ...

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