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September 22, 2010
Atlantic Yards Report’s Plan to Turn the Development’s Story into a Book
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by Steve Delahoyde
We’ve posted our fair share about the trials and tribulations of the seemingly always rocky creation of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards development, from the early protests to Frank Gehry‘s removal to the disregard for public design reviews and the lawsuits that have nearly shut it all down at times. But as often as we’ve written about the project, we can’t hold a candle to Norman Oder, the man behind the Atlantic Yards Report, a blog that, since 2006, has laboriously chronicled all the many ups and downs the development has been through. Thanks to a tip from a reader, we were passed along the news that Oder has decided to quit his job as news editor of the Library Journal to concentrate on turning his blog about the Yards into a book. Though he doesn’t yet have a publishing deal for it, he’s striking out on his own in order to tell the story of this storied development.
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In a column on Library Journal, where Norman Oder does his day job, the Atlantic Yards Report creator and sole proprietor announces that he is leaving his journalistic duties at that publication to work on the definitive book about the Atlantic Yards epic.
...We wish you, Mr. Oder, all the discipline you need and all the best in your pursuit of this massive endeavor.
NoLandGrab: Only DDDB knows as well as NoLandGrab how valuable Norman Oder has been to the Atlantic Yards fight. For the former, he unearthed numerous stories that fueled and aided their opposition; for us, he's provided about a quarter of our content.
Posted by eric at September 22, 2010 10:12 AM