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October 26, 2008
Atlantic Yards Report Sunday Double-Espresso
Atlantic Yards Report
Norman Oder gives us two quickie items to get us going on a Sunday morning.
Lupica: Commissioner Stern is watching
A short line in Mike Lupica's column in the Daily News elicits this musing from Norman Oder:
From Daily News sports columnist Mike Lupica today:
Commissioner Stern must be pretty proud of the way things are working out for the Nets, geography-wise, and attendance-wise, the whole ball of wax.And team-less Seattle, as noted on NetsDaily, may see Key Arena get renovated.
The IRS decision this week on tax-exempt bonds was very good news, from the perspective of Atlantic Yards backers. The deadline for Barclays Capital to renew and possibly renegotiate the naming-rights deal for the Barclays Center is less good news.
And the tanking stock price, and lowering of Forest City Enterprises' credit rating makes it more difficult, though not impossible, for the developer to wait patiently on Atlantic Yards.
Does anyone think that, even if the Brooklyn arena gets built, the Nets will spend four full seasons at the Izod Center in the Meadowlands?
Vox populi on term limits vote missing from the print Times
When it comes to this week's City Council vote to extend term limits, the Times continues to show preference for back-room deals like the ones done for the proposed Atlantic Yards project.
While the New York Times published six letters on Thursday, the day of the City Council's vote to overturn and extend voter-imposed term limits, it had not published a letter since. That's a serious lapse, after all, there were 710 comments on the Times's CityRoom blog responding to the Council's vote and 105 comments after Bloomberg defended the move on the radio.
Even if the Times eventually publishes some letters, it has partly squelched the instant voices of dissent.
Posted by steve at October 26, 2008 10:37 AM