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March 8, 2006

RATNER RAZING ARENA BUILDING

Bruce RatnerThe NY Post
By Patrick Gallahue

NY Post exclusive:

Developer Bruce Ratner starts demolition today on the first of the buildings standing in the way of his $3.5 billion NBA arena and skyscraper complex in Brooklyn.

Officials with Ratner's Forest City Ratner Companies said Gateway Demolition would raze the decrepit, four-story Underberg Building on Atlantic Avenue, which earned a prominent spot in Jonathan Lethem's acclaimed Brooklyn memoir, "Fortress of Solitude."
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Ratner paid Gateway $1.3 million to tear down the Underberg and several other buildings in the area.

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Posted by lumi at March 8, 2006 9:01 AM