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October 27, 2011
Blogger calls out Jay-Z for overstating benefits of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project
NY Daily News Sports ITeam Blog
by Michael O'Keeffe
Atlantic Yards Report blogger Norman Oder, writing for Salon this week, points out that politicians and developers aren't the only ones who have made inflated claims about Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn basketball arena. Oder calls out Jay-Z, the hip-hop artist who owns a tiny slice of the Nets, for overstating the benefits of Ratner's massive real estate project.
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Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, Jay-Z Doesn't Deserve a Free Pass for Broken Promises of Atlantic Yards
Atlantic Yards Report's Norman Oder, fresh off a column in City Limits, move on to Salon.com to take a long look at why hip-hop icon and less-than-one-percent-but-always-out-in-front-owner of the New Jersey Nets Jay-Z should not get a free pass when it comes to the broken promises of Atlantic Yards by his partners Bruce Ratner and Mikhail Prokhorov.
Posted by eric at October 27, 2011 11:41 AM