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
More revelations about the Atlantic Yards arena deal, plus some hint of how the Nets themselves will fare in Brooklyn: Uberdeveloper-turned-Nets-owner Bruce Ratner better have some good meds, because this is rapidly shaping up to be a month of rapid … 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
The wrecking ball (or rather, the backhoe) has arrived at Yankee Stadium: While the World Champion Yankees are fighting their way through lower Manhattan traffic this morning, a more somber ceremony is taking place in the Bronx, where the demolition … 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
Thoughts on tonight’s Game 1 of the World Series: With the World Series starting tonight — if this rain ever stops, and if Jay-Z’s opening act finishes in time for the game to start before midnight — the media is … Continue reading
The Nets may be moving next year, but it’s not to Brooklyn: Rumors of the Nets moving to Newark to join the Devils are as old as Jason Kidd’s knees, but hoops-by-the-Ironbound may finally be a reality, as early as … Continue reading
As if landing the Olympics wasn’t trouble enough already, now it could come with the requirement of passing newly expanded police powers: Countries could be barred from hosting the Olympics, starting with the 2018 games, if they don’t have laws … Continue reading