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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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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 ...

San Diego Jewish Journal
Film Fest: FEATURED FILMS
San Diego Jewish Journal
Unassuming graphic designer Daniel Goldstein and his fiancée were living in a Brooklyn condo in late 2003 when blustering borough president Marty Markowitz announced the Atlantic Yards project. Designed by Frank Gehry, the plan featured a massive ...

Gary LaBarbara of Building Trades Thrashes City Point Developers as ...
Commercial Observer
Gary LaBarbara has an axe to grind with developers at City Point before they dig any deeper into Downtown Brooklyn. In a move that could exacerbate friction that's already occurring at the ... Examples: Related Companies' Hudson Yards will create an ...

Real Estate Weekly
City Point questions deserve some answers
Real Estate Weekly
We also recently joined Forest City Ratner to break ground at B2 BKLYN, which will bring housing for middle and lower income families to Atlantic Yards following the opening of the already iconic Barclays Center. An innovative partnership on this ...

New York Daily News
It's True: Bruce Ratner to Step Down as Forest City CEO
Commercial Observer
Mr. Ratner's longstanding reputation as a proponent of innovative design was infused with newfound grit and determination over the past decade, as the epic battle at his Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn unfolded. “The cynics can doubt. The critics ...
Another break for Ratner Barclays Center owner gets tax savings on Brooklyn ...New York Daily News
Bruce Ratner stepping down as Forest City CEOThe Brooklyn Game

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New York Times (blog)
The Day: A Gentrifying G Train and a Class Divide
New York Times (blog)
The team's move to Brooklyn was the main reason for the sharp increase, the report notes. They're still far behind the $1 billion New York Knicks, but Norman Oder said on the Atlantic Yards Report that it's reason enough to question why the stadium and ...

Plans Aren't Concrete, But Coignet Building Is Ready For a New Chapter
New York Observer
Building components could be prefabricated using molds, making it much cheaper than carved stone (not unlike Forest City Ratner's modular towers at Atlantic Yards.) ... After the stone company left, the building housed the Brooklyn Improvement Company.

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New York Daily News
Bruce Ratner to step down as Forest City CEO
Crain's New York Business (subscription)
After 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 the Barclays Center, the jewel of his 16-acre Atlantic Yards project in the heart of Brooklyn. That ...
It's True: Bruce Ratner to Step Down as Forest City CEOCommercial Observer
Another break for Ratner Barclays Center owner gets tax savings on Brooklyn ...New York Daily News

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Winning micro-housing design on display in NYC
Gizmag
... Micro NY," will create 55 new micro-units, 40 percent of which will be deemed affordable beyond New York's competitive market rents, and the building will join the Atlantic Yards project in constructing modular pre-fabricated units at the Brooklyn ...

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Residential Poised to Push CRE Rates Higher
GlobeSt.com
Meanwhile, Brooklyn's popularity has created some shifts in the borough, MNS reports. Neighborhoods such as Williamsburg and DUMBO surpassed Manhattan rents, pushing residents into the city. The opening of the Barclays Center and the Atlantic Yards ...