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
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
New York Islanders Charles Wang has declared his team a free agent, but does he actually have any viable places to move to? The hockey season is underway, which is bad news for Islanders fans in two ways. First off, … Continue reading
A revised study of the Atlantic Yards arena shows that the city would now lose money on the deal, while Nets owner Bruce Ratner would save megabucks: This just hasn’t been a good week for Bruce Ratner, the Nets owner … Continue reading
Yesterday was the third anniversary of the demolition of Macombs Dam Park to make way for the Yankees’ new stadium, and work on replacement parks is still far off in the distance: As anyone who’s been to a game at … Continue reading
Beneath the longest headline known to man or blog, I examine the possible fallout of the NYC subway’s first-ever naming-rights deal: That resounding “Ewwwww!” you heard emanating from Brooklyn was the sound of locals discovering that as part of Bruce … Continue reading
What we’re losing in Detroit: After a crazy Friday afternoon that featured a preservationist running onto the field at Tiger Stadium to serve a restraining order against the stadium’s demolition — too late to stop a backhoe from taking several … Continue reading