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Ruined Views in DUMBO, A Big Cheese in Sunset Park & More of Today's Links  BKLYNER

The big news of the week is Amazon's HQ2 announcement, and some think Atlantic Yards serves as a warning of what could come. In East Flatbush, residents ...

Amazon HQ2: Some Residents Optimistic About Positive Changes To NYC  WCBS 880

NEW YORK (WCBS 880/AP) — While protesters gathered in Long Island City Wednesday to rally against the decision to build Amazon's second headquarters in ...

New York Times
Amazon Is Getting at Least $1.7 Billion to Come to Queens. Now Comes the Fight Over Whether It's Worth It.
New York Times
[What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] To attract Amazon, New York's leaders agreed to remake plans for the Queens waterfront, move a distribution center for school lunches and provide a sweeping package of $1.7 ...
A First Look At Everything New York Will Give Amazon To Come To QueensGothamist
Governor Cuomo proposes rezoning in Long Island City as Amazon confirms HQ2 locationsThe Architect's Newspaper
Long Island City will share Amazon's 2nd headquarters: Daily News sourceNew York Daily News

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Los Angeles Times
A First Look At Everything New York Will Give Amazon To Come To Queens
Gothamist
(Though the project will still have to go through the less-onerous state environmental review procedures, much as the state-controlled Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn did.) Council speaker Corey Johnson has already issued a press release declaring ...
Some New Yorkers Hate the Amazon Deal. Can They Stop It?New York Times
Plastics company another winner in blockbuster Amazon dealCrain's New York Business
Governor Cuomo proposes rezoning in Long Island City as Amazon confirms HQ2 locationsThe Architect's Newspaper
Streetsblog New York (blog) -Long Island City Post -The Amazon Blog - About Amazon
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A First Look At Everything New York Will Give Amazon To Come To Queens  Gothamist

For everyone wondering when we would find out how much boodle Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio offered to Amazon in exchange for coming to Long Island ...

New York Daily News
Long Island City will share Amazon's 2nd headquarters: Daily News source
New York Daily News
His administration plans to use state law to allow Amazon to sidestep the city's zoning process, Crain's New York Business reported. Similar procedures were used for the Atlantic Yards and Brooklyn Bridge Park projects. De Blasio has spoken against the ...

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The Real Deal Magazine
Cuomo looking to go around City Council to pave way for Amazon's Long Island City HQ
The Real Deal Magazine
But a source in the Cuomo administration pointed out that the process has been used before on projects like Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Times Square and the World Trade Center. “For decades, this has been a very typical process for joint city ...

Cuomo looking to go around City Council to pave way for Amazon’s Long Island City HQ  The Real Deal Magazine

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is likely to turn to a controversial planning process used on projects like Atlantic Yards and the World Trade Center in order to push forward ...

Cuomo looking to go around City Council to pave way for Amazon’s Long Island City HQ  The Real Deal Magazine

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is likely to turn to a controversial planning process used on projects like Atlantic Yards and the World Trade Center in order to push forward ...

Cuomo looking to go around City Council to pave way for Amazon’s Long Island City HQ  The Real Deal Magazine

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is likely to turn to a controversial planning process used on projects like Atlantic Yards and the World Trade Center in order to push forward ...

Long Island City will share Amazon's 2nd headquarters: Daily News source - NY Daily News  New York Daily News

An announcement is expected on Tuesday, The Daily News has learned. Amazon also plans to build a headquarters facility in Northern Virginia.

Crain's New York Business
Cuomo likely to steer Amazon project around City Council
Crain's New York Business
The approach was used on controversial development projects such as Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, which also drew scrutiny for using eminent domain to make way for a large arena—now the Barclays Center—and more than a dozen residential and mixed-use ...
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Between Long Island City, NY, and Arlington, Va.New York Times
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two CitiesWall Street Journal
It looks like Detroit was suckered by Amazon HQ2 move. Here's howDetroit Free Press

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B.I.G. makeover: Brooklyn Nets debuting Biggie-inspired jerseys  Brooklyn Daily

Brooklyn swagger: Brooklyn Nets player D'Angelo Russell shows off the new jersey honoring Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace that the team will debut on ...

Cuomo likely to steer Amazon project around City Council  Crain's New York Business

The Cuomo administration will likely use a controversial planning process to shepherd Amazon's potential headquarters in Queens around the normal city ...

San Francisco Business Times
Can modular highrises help solve Oakland's housing crunch?
San Francisco Business Times
The building made up the first of 15 buildings in Forest City's Pacific Park, a 22-acre housing development slated for 1,500 homes previously known as Atlantic Yards, according to the New York Times. The tower didn't go as planned. Soon after starting ...

The Tablet Catholic Newspaper
$2 Million Raised For Catholic Education
The Tablet Catholic Newspaper
The money will help more than 1,500 students in 86 schools and academies throughout Brooklyn and Queens receive a Catholic education. For 28 years, Futures has supported families through partial need-based ... Minieri was involved in the acquisition of ...

The Villager
Deny the dystopia Big Real Estate wants for us
The Villager
Then, Bloomberg's luxury-city model handed us the corporatized wastelands of Hudson Yards, Greenpoint, Atlantic Yards, Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Long Island City. And the team of de Blasio and Deputy Mayor Glen? Their affordable housing ...

Hudson Yards Has $4.5 Billion In Taxpayer Money. Will We Ever See It Again?
Gothamist
The new district, though, didn't just come about through the hard work of money-grubbing developers, or even just a city rezoning like in Downtown Brooklyn. Hudson Yards owes its existence .... "Whether large-scale projects like Hudson Yards or ...

Hudson Yards Has $4.5 Billion In Taxpayer Money. Will We Ever See It Again?  Gothamist

As the massive stalagmites of Hudson Yards intrude upon the Manhattan skyline, it's easy to focus just on the impact on the streetscape of the onetime no-man's ...

artnet News
New York Is Inviting Nonprofits to Install Contemporary Art on the City's Construction Sites
artnet News
The Department of Buildings also brought art to the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards construction site back in 2010. “New York City is one of the most vibrant built environments in the world, and City Canvas is a great opportunity to let some of the artists ...