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January 4, 2009
It Came from the Blogosphere...
A Sports Scribe, I-what?
If team owner Bruce Ratner sells the team, as it has been rumored, then the new owners might as well save the headache of trying to build the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. When the City of New York and New York State was basically throwing money towards the Yankees and Mets for their facilities while pondering the West Side Stadium for the Jets, it was not a stretch to believe that the Nets would move across the Hudson River before the end of the decade.Yet, Ratner was dealing with the quagmire that Walter O’Malley dealt with a half-century earlier for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Whether the lack of movement has been public opposition, government reluctance or both, this area has never been developed in the manner than some have envisioned. Add the fact that Ratner made his money from real estate and you have a derailed train with broken tracks to its side.
Fucked in Park Slope 209 Reasons Brooklyn Is So Damn Badass: Happy 2009!
179. We, (and the tanking economy) stopped Atlantic Yards! Sort of (Noah Adler). The fact that a public that was shut out of Bruce Ratner's stupid development plan for the Atlantic Railyards has managed to stall the project until the economy tanked. Yay! (David).
Posted by amy at January 4, 2009 10:00 AM