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Yahoo! Sports
by Adrian Wojnarowski
Bruce Ratner's latest victim is Nets coach Lawrence Frank, handed the keys to the worst team in professional sports and then blamed for not being able to win.
The New Jersey Nets have fired Lawrence Frank, the coach told Yahoo! Sports.
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News
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Real Estate
Brooklyn
Atlantic Yards
The Star-Ledger
by Brent Johnson
Who! Who ever heard of a municipality using eminent domain to stop developers from building something where open space now lies?
Woodbridge officials are looking to buy the financially troubled Colonia Country Club and turn it into a public golf ...
News
Country Club
In error-filled editorial, Crain's says elected officials should reassure arena bond investors
It could be said that Norman Oder is being gentle in calling today's collection of fibs in Crain's "error-filled."
This blog entry addresses Crain's whoppers regarding public good, public ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Crain's
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The editors at Crain's are looking at the proposed Atlantic Yards project in a rear-view mirror while wearing rose-colored glasses.
New York's highest court did more than affirm the right of the state to use eminent domain in last week's crucial ruling ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Brooklyn
The Record
By Mike Kelly
You might expect that coverage of the Atlantic Yards fight from New Jersey would focus only on the possibility of the Nets leaving New Jersey. This piece shows understanding, largely lacking in New York media, that this subterfuge would have on Brooklyn.
The ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Brooklyn
Below are some examples of the outrage generated by last Tuesday's ruling by the New York State Appellate Court.
Tracy Walters Blog , Another blow to private property rights
Yes, you read that right. Ratner will be partially financing the private venture on government-seized land ...
Real Estate
Plaintiff Sheets: "welfare kings," "civic masturbation," and the Michigan cases the Court of Appeals ignored
David Sheets, one of the plaintiffs on the case recently decided by the New York State Court of Appeals is particularly soft-spoken during a press conference, but there's no masking ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Noticing New York
Senator Charles Schumer understands the evils of monopolies when it comes to health care costs, but is just fine with supporting developer Bruce Ranter's growing monopoly on development in Brooklyn.
We bring this up because this week we found Senator Schumer talking ...
Real Estate
Charles Schumer
Atlantic Yards
Brooklyn
The Wall Street Journal
Supporters of the proposed Atlantic Yards project have tried to justify this land grab by Bruce Ratner by trumpeting the developer's claims for public benefits to come. This opinion piece shows an understanding of just who the real beneficiary of the development would ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Islandlaw Constitutional Rights Pages
The definition of blight, according to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, is “Something that frustrates plans or hopes, …or something that impairs and destroys.” Both of these definitions could be used to describe the impact of this week’s Court ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Basketball Proespectus
by John Perrotto
This item noting this week's Court of Appeals ruling notable as it quotes developer Bruce Ratner stating his committment to the proposed Atlantic Yards project even as he unloads the New Jersey Nets.
The Nets’ proposed move from New Jersey to ...
Real Estate
Brooklyn
Atlantic Yards
Noticing New York
This past Tuesday the Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corporation (“BALDC”) met in the offices of the ESDC, the tool of developer Bruce Ratner. The purpose of the meeting was to approve the issuance of bonds.
Michael White attended the meeting and found that there was ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Nets Daily
This consolidation of reports from multiple sources includes a explanation of bond ratings for the proposed Nets arena and why the sale of bonds by a December 31st deadline is not a foregone conclusion.
Here’s why the ratings are crucial to the project. Ratings agencies ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
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NY Daily News , Editorial Here's a surprise
— a Daily News editorial full of untruths and...
half-truths in the wake of a pro-Atlantic Yards court decision. The state's highest court has given a crucial go-ahead to plans to build a pro ...
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A Net gain for Brooklyn: High court did right by the ...
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Atlantic Yards Report
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Atlantic Yards Report
Last week's high court ruling has just set the bar impossibly high for New York homeowners and businesses to defend their property rights against eminent domain.
Libertarian law professor Ilya Somin calls the Atlantic Yards eminent domain decision "the first ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
The Bergen Record
Editorial
Soon enough, they will probably be the team from Atlantic Yards, with an 18,000-seat arena built just for them. The New Jersey Nets will become the Brooklyn Nets, and we will have lost our team.
This is not the outcome we wanted. We wanted the Nets to ...
A&E
Atlantic Yards
Brooklyn
Izod Center
David Horowitz's Newsreal
by Matthew Vadum
The relentlessly sanctimonious radical advocacy group-cum-organized crime syndicate has become the leading cheerleader for the real estate development that is slated to use eminent domain to remove the poor people it claims to represent.
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News
Runnin' Scared
by Elizabeth Dwoskin
Tuesday's Atlantic Yards decision, in which New York's highest court upheld the right of the state to seize private property on behalf of a mega-developer, will doubtlessly impact the lives of thousands of Brooklyn residents and be discussed for ...
Real Estate
Atlantic Yards
Brooklyn
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn notes that this Thanksgiving all of the gravy went to developer Bruce Ratner's trough, so we'll have to settle for Russian dressing on this turkey.
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Speaking of Bruce, he should be thankful to live in a country where the government will serve up ...
