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May 18, 2010
Atlantic Yards Hits Air-Rights Turbulence
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Does real estate have a memory? New York City has seen its share of bungled, back-and-forth construction projects that, once completed, become part of the urban fabric, their birth pangs forgotten. The Guggenheim, for instance, was once the target of the wrath of artists, who refused to display art in a building they considered a monstrosity; after the instant landmark opened, all was forgiven.
But while public sentiment seems to be swinging in favor of the World Trade Center rebuilding project, it's less certain whether the turmoil can ever burn off of another convoluted endeavor across the river: Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards. Just as Forrest [sic] City Ratner seemed to win over the last of the neighborhood's anti-construction holdouts, another canny local has slapped the developer with an arcane "air rights" lawsuit.
Posted by eric at May 18, 2010 11:56 AM