If you can’t be bothered to read Atlantic Yards Report’s crazy-long FAQ on its even crazier-long series on Bruce Ratner’s still crazier green-cards-for-financing schemes, you can now read my Cliff Notes version instead. (Not nearly so crazy, but with more … Continue reading
Looking back at the legacy of New York Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff’s development projects, with three years of hindsight: Two seemingly unrelated news items from the last month: The tunnel boring machine digging the extension of the number 7 subway … Continue reading
Now that New York City’s comptroller has charged that the city’s development arm illegally withheld $125 million in revenues from the city treasury, does he actually have a shot at getting it back? Comptroller John Liu’s finding that the Economic … Continue reading
More than you ever wanted to know about the fate of Brooklyn’s last surviving big-league ballpark wall: The saga of the last surviving Brooklyn ballpark wall just keeps getting murkier and murkier. The latest news: Con Ed, which since the … Continue reading
Years after first weighing in on the Washington Park controversy, I get to revisit the question of just whose ballpark wall is still standing in Brooklyn: After all the hoohah over the last surviving remnant of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ home … Continue reading
Attempting to make sense of yesterday’s court ruling on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards arena project: So is the long-heralded arrival of Atlantic Yards finally at hand, or what? According to the front page of today’s Times (echoed on its sports page), … Continue reading
With a horde of reporters wandering around the Bronx looking for World Series stories, it’s probably inevitable that some of them would wander onto 161st Street and ask local merchants how business is going what with the new stadium next … Continue reading
I just received my hot-off-the-presses copy of the new issue of City Limits Investigates, with a report by CLI editor Jarrett Murphy and myself on how one New York City zip code — 11237, which covers most of the neighborhood … Continue reading
Some historical perspective on why the time may be right to cut bait on some big New York development projects: When the state Senate — back when we had a functioning state Senate — held hearings on Brooklyn’s beleaguered Atlantic … Continue reading
I sit through the first state legislative hearing on the Atlantic Yards project, so you don’t have to: Today was the long-awaited — like, six years long — first state legislative hearing on Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, with State … Continue reading