Atlantic Yards

To The Editor:
Queens Tribune
Less than a year ago and only a mile away from lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn parcel known as Atlantic Yards was reborn as the Barclays Center. The basketball arena has quickly demonstrated itself as an economic engine, attracting not only the Nets ...

Most Employees At Heavily-Subsidized Barclays Center Don't Have Health ...
Gothamist
However, Gib Veconi of the neighborhood advocacy group Brooklyn Speaks, argues that the lack of benefits and full time employment is highly disappointing, given the fact that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars went to subsidize the Atlantic Yards ...

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ABC News
The Kings County speech: Mayor's last lecture lavishes praise on boro legacy
Brooklyn Daily
... glass-working facility, Brooklyn Bridge Park, which recently debuted new open space and will soon turn the Tobacco Warehouse into an arts venue, Steeplechase Plaza, which heralds a glitzy new future to Coney Island, and, of course, the Atlantic ...
Why the Barclays Center Was the Perfect Setting for Bloomberg's Final State of ...New York Magazine
In Final State of the City, Bloomberg To Frame His LegacyWNYC
Reefer, Rezoning and Recycling on Bloomberg AgendaCity Limits (blog)

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The State of the City; New Tours of Grand Central
Curbed NY
ATLANTIC YARDS—In addition to making eliminating Styrofoam his next mission (after tackling fatty foods and sugary sodas), Mayor Mike also had a few things to say about the planning and development in his last State of the City address (full text here ...

BrooklynPapers.com
The Kings County speech: Mayor's last lecture lavishes praise on boro legacy
BrooklynPapers.com
... glass-working facility, Brooklyn Bridge Park, which recently debuted new open space and will soon turn the Tobacco Warehouse into an arts venue, Steeplechase Plaza, which heralds a glitzy new future to Coney Island, and, of course, the Atlantic ...
Why the Barclays Center Was the Perfect Setting for Bloomberg's Final State of ...New York Magazine
Reefer, Rezoning and Recycling on Bloomberg AgendaCity Limits (blog)
In Final State of the City, Bloomberg To Frame His LegacyWNYC

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New York Magazine
Why the Barclays Center Was the Perfect Setting for Bloomberg's Final State of ...
New York Magazine
Bloomberg has rotated his State of the City speech site through the five boroughs. Today he went to Brooklyn, for the fourth time — Queens has been the location for three States of the City, the Bronx and Staten Island two each. The tally is ...

LICH Community Forum This Evening
Brooklyn Heights Blog (blog)
You have the Atlantic Yards expansion with thousands of area visitors. If Cuomo closes down LICH then he could be responsible for the early death of hundreds of Brooklyn residents and. visitors every year. Write to Coumo about saving LICH. The last ...

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Text: Bloomberg's Final State of the City Address
WNYC (blog)
Against all the odds, despite all the legal challenges, despite all the naysayers and NIMBYers, here we are. And as we speak, the first residential tower at Atlantic Yards is rising, and it will have nearly 200 affordable apartments. Marty – Mr ...

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Bruce Ratner's Vision Comes to Life: Perlman and Helfgot at Barclays Center
The Jewish Voice
He follows that with the acquisition and building of the Atlantic Center mall in 1996, the Atlantic Terminal mall in 2004, the Atlantic Yards residential buildings, after which he decides he will have the “chutzpah” to build a sports stadium in ...

Cheryl McKissack Daniel
New York Times
Ms. McKissack Daniel, 51, is president and chief executive of McKissack & McKissack, a New York company involved in several infrastructure projects, including Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, the World Trade Center and Columbia University's expansion.

Battle for Brooklyn
Express Milwaukee
According to the documentary Battle for Brooklyn, that's what happened when billionaire developer Bruce Ratner called on highly placed political friends to seize a section of Brooklyn for the Atlantic Yards, a project crowned by a stadium housing his ...

Watching the Watchdogs
Brooklyn Rail
The most familiar name in this year's race is Brooklyn City Councilwoman Letitia James of the Working Families Party. A former Legal Aid attorney, the 50-year-old James isn't afraid to inject race and class into the ... She helped lead the opposition ...

A Ratner in the Stacks: Library To Sell Forest City-Adjacent Branches
New York Observer
Forest City Ratner already owns or has dibs on much larger plots than this 9,500-square foot slice of Brooklyn, though, so a library land grab near Atlantic Yards sounds far-fetched. The buyer would not have to rebuild a library on the site, since Two ...

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Ratner will cede some power at Forest City
Crain's Cleveland Business
Following a decade-long struggle to realize the biggest project of what has been a very big career in New York City real estate, Mr. Ratner finally opened Barclays Center, the arena jewel of his 16-acre Atlantic Yards project in the heart of Brooklyn.

Transportation Nation
TN MOVING STORIES: Seattle Bike Share Moves Forward, US Carbon Dioxide ...
Transportation Nation
Seattle has issued an RFP for bike share vendors. (Curbed). During one Brooklyn Nets game this week, a neighborhood group found 77 parking and/or idling violations. (Atlantic Yards Watch). Woolworth's has introduced “bus-stop shopping” at bus stops in ...