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NY1
Officials To Break Ground On Atlantic Yards Project
NY1
While work has been ongoing at the Atlantic Yards site since last fall, the groundbreaking marks the next phase in the construction of the 18000 seat ...
New Architects For Atlantic Yards?Gothamist
Groundbreaking at Atlantic Yards comes years lateCrain's New York Business
State 'cages' key Atlantic Yards holdoutNew York Post
Reason Online (blog) -YourNabe.com -New York Magazine
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Huffington Post (blog)
Barclays Center Design Plans Released (PICTURES)
Huffington Post (blog)
Renderings for the Atlantic Yards Barclays Center were revealed yesterday. After many years of controversy and lawsuits, a groundbreaking ceremony for the ...

Commercial Realty Firm Moves to Site Close to Atlantic Yards Development
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“The Atlantic Terminal is just about as central Brooklyn as it gets with access to just about every subway line plus the LIRR, in between several strong ...

No rush to sweeten Domino development's transit improvements
New York Post
The project, the second-biggest in Brooklyn behind Atlantic Yards, came under fire last year over the possibility that the illuminated "Domino Sugar" sign ...

BrooklynPapers.com
Paterson comes to Brooklyn Borough Hall
YourNabe.com
Along the way, Paterson appeared to sidestep Atlantic Yards while addressing such issues as a tax on sugary drinks and allowing the sale of wine in grocery ...
Paterson's Town Hall -- Some Other Moments of Truth, Or As Close As We Can GetVillage Voice (blog)

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New York Post
Atlantic Yards Groundbreaking Set for Thursday
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Gov. David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ...
New Brooklyn arena's interior design revealedNew York Post

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Paterson, at Borough Hall, Takes Break From Scandal
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Several people in the audience criticized the state's sponsorship of Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, calling it a boondoggle that costs the ...

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New York Post
New Brooklyn arena's interior design revealed
New York Post
The arena, part of developer Bruce Ratner's embattled Atlantic Yards project, will hold 18000 seats for Nets games — including 9500 on the lower level — and ...

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The L Magazine
Streets Close as Atlantic Yards Construction Moves Ahead
NBC New York
Traffic is getting snarled around the site of the planned Atlantic Yards complex in downtown Brooklyn, as streets in the area ...
Brooklyn Streets Close For Atlantic Yards ConstructionNY1
Atlantic Yards Judge Receives Suspicious White Powder in the MailThe L Magazine
Freddy's, Beloved, Boozy Vessel for All Our Anti-Atlantic Yards Anger, Gets ...The L Magazine

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Nets Laud Future Newark Home as a Bridge to Brooklyn
New York Times
... ground on its ultimate, if long-delayed, destination: the Barclays Center, near downtown Brooklyn, which is part of the 22-acre Atlantic Yards project. ...

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BrooklynPapers.com
Judge in Yards case gets a powder-filled threat
BrooklynPapers.com
In the comments section under The Brooklyn Paper's online coverage of Gerges's Atlantic Yards ruling, there is considerable criticism of the longtime jurist ...
Brooklyn judge in anthrax scareBioPrepWatch.com

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AY starts off an economic boom for Brooklyn contractors
YourNabe.com
With the Barclays Center arena and the Atlantic Yards project officially underway, all the parties to the Community Benefits Agreement say ...

Judge Who Approved Atlantic Yards Receives 'Suspicious' White Powder
New York Magazine
... the judge who last week gave the green light to the controversial Atlantic Yards development project, which will result in the displacement of Brooklyn ...
Suspicious white powder sent to B'klyn judge forces evacuationNew York Daily News
White Powder Causes Alarm in Judicial ChambersBrooklyn Daily Eagle
Powder delivered to Judge Gerges' officeYourNabe.com
Gothamist
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"It was as if all he knew was what he had read in his own paper."
Reason Online (blog)
Exhibits A and B in this critique are Ouroussoff's reviews of the massive Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn. It was unclear from his first review whether ...

Suspicious white powder sent to B'klyn judge forces evacuation
New York Daily News
The powder, which is still being tested, was sent to Justice Abraham Gerges, the judge who last week signed off on the controversial Atlantic Yards ...
Judge Who Approved Atlantic Yards Receives 'Suspicious' White PowderNew York Magazine
White Powder Causes Alarm in Judicial ChambersBrooklyn Daily Eagle
Powder delivered to Judge Gerges' officeYourNabe.com
Gothamist
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Pursuing Happiness
New York Times (blog)
Freddy's Bar, a cantankerous Brooklyn institution, is threatened with displacement and destruction via eminent domain as part of the the Atlantic Yards ...

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Village Voice (blog)
Recently at Reason.tv: Billionaires vs. Brooklyn's Best Bar—Eminent Domain ...
Reason Online (blog)
But don't mistake Atlantic Yards as one more instance of the market-driven transformations for which New York is rightly famous. It's actually the latest ...
Freddy's Looks Back on 13 Years of Art; Should it Close, Expect Freddy's IIVillage Voice (blog)

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Gothamist
Pandemonium at MTA Hearing in Brooklyn, 4 Arrests
Gothamist
IT is such a fake when slush fund Christine Quinn and Atlantic Yards Crony Marty Markowitz speak at these hearings. These fakes have access to the MTA board ...

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Barclays Center to do official groundbreaking
YourNabe.com
On the flip side of the condemnation, the Atlantic Yards project comes at a time when the city has seen little major development come to fruition in recent ...

Numbers Game for King James
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia
The Nets inched closer to moving to Brooklyn by 2012 when a New York State Supreme Court judge ruled against every objection raised in a lawsuit by ...

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