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July 5, 2008
A true-crime tale in "Atlantic Yards"? Not quite
Atlantic Yards Report
The "noir" we're most familiar with would have thugs with fedoras hanging around the footprint for the proposed Atlantic Yards project, but Norman Oder, who is apparently catching up with his summer reading, has encountered "Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth". This is a noir of a much more recent vintage.
The crime fiction collection Brooklyn Noir was the first in Akashic Books' highly-successful "Noir" series, which now extends to dozens of anthologies. Now Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing but the Truth has been published, the first true-crime collection in the series.
The Table of Contents lists not just the chapters but the neighborhoods they're set in, so I was intrigued to see that the collection includes a memoir titled "The Ghetto Never Sleeps, Mister Policeman," by Robert Leuci and set in a neighborhood designated as Atlantic Yards.
Is Atlantic Yards a place? Nope; it's a project. (If you want an AY crime story, check the statistics.)
NoLandGrab: One might think of Norman Oder as the Barton Keyes (check the Pacific All-Risk Insurance Company) of the Atlantic Yards beat. (It's the July 4th weekend, you might have time to Google it.)
Posted by steve at July 5, 2008 9:17 AM