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July 18, 2011
Atlantic Yards Twist: Judge Agrees State Agency Catered To Developer Forest City Ratner
The Huffington Post
by Norman Oder
The Atlantic Yards Report über-blogger pens a lengthy analysis of last week's court decision for The Huffington Post.
The local press recently applied team coverage to the slaying of an eight-year-old Hasidic boy in Brooklyn and the perjury trial of pitcher Roger Clemens, but an important court ruling regarding the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn received either minor mention or -- in the case of the New York Times and the New York Daily News -- a complete blackout.
That's a shame, because the decision confirms what many Atlantic Yards opponents, and even some more neutral observers, have long believed: the New York State agency in charge of the arena-cum-skyscrapers project has bent over backwards to accommodate developer Forest City Ratner.
And that message, also contained in the new documentary Battle for Brooklyn, suggests the much-touted move of the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn will be forever tainted.
Posted by eric at July 18, 2011 7:00 PM