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May 13, 2009
It came from the Blogosphere...
Brownstoner, Boymelgreen-Ratner Deal on Pacific Was Indeed "Improper"
A 2007 Supreme Court ruling that declared a lease deal between the developers Shaya Boymelgreen and Forest City Ratner improper was upheld yesterday by an Appeals Court in Brooklyn.... Now the question is what the impact of the appellate ruling will be.
mcbrooklyn, Cancel Your Cancun Vacation and Party in Brooklyn, and More Briefs
— Just one more legal glitch in the way of Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. Brooklyn Eagle
Not Another F*cking Blog, It’s about time: Atlantic Yards gets it’s first State Senate hearing, May 29
I would have thought/hoped that the Atlantic Yards project would have come under scrutiny years ago, but I suppose it’s better late than never that the State Senate will finally take a close look at this boondoggle.
Curbed LA, “Conversations With Frank Gehry": NYT Reviews
Architecture critic Martin Filler, one-time friend of Frank Gehry (he was even asked by Gehry to write his authorized biography), seems to be making amends in his NYTimes review of Barbara Isenberg’s “Conversations With Frank Gehry.” Filler, you may remember, wrote a scathing indictment of Gehry's design for Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project in House & Garden in 2007, declaring it would “ruin a racially and economically diverse neighborhood of a sort almost extinct in today’s money-mad metropolis” and the scale "nothing less than nuts.” Ouch.
Huffington Post, Online News is Not Arianna Huffington's Dastardly Plot to Destroy the Newspaper Industry And Other Reality-Based Observations
FiredogLake.com blogger Jane Hamsher cites Norman Oder's Atlantic Yards Report in her rebuttal of David Simon's critique of the current media landscape:
Simon seems to have reached the conclusion that any news organization that doesn't cover the pie eating contests of Baltimore is woefully inadequate, those were the days, etc etc. I don't recall anyone ever covering the Atlantic Yards as meticulously as Norman Oder, who has written quite thoughtfully on the subject of local online news coverage. Perhaps if the Atlantic Yards project moved to Baltimore, Oder would pass Simon's litmus test.
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, What Does MTA Chief Lee Sander's Ritual Resignation Mean, If Anything, for Ratner's Rail Yard Deal?
What does the resignation of a seemingly upright public servant mean for the negotiations rumored to be taking place between the MTA and Forest City Ratner to restructure the $100 million deal for the developer to purchase the rights to develop the Vanderbilt Rail Yard—the 8-acre MTA-owned, active rail yard portion of the 22-acre Atlantic Yards projec? Remember, the developer has yet to pay a dime towards his winning, lowball bid.
Was Sander playing ball in those negotiations or playing hard ball? What will his successor do?
Posted by lumi at May 13, 2009 5:48 AM