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This watchdog blog, written by journalist Norman Oder, offers analysis, commentary, and reportage about Forest City Ratner's planned $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project, to build the Barclays Center basketball arena and 16 high-rise buildings at a crucial site in Brooklyn. Contact: AtlanticYardsReport[at]hotmail.com

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Rounding up the "columns" on the groundbreaking

Last week and in this coming week I'll try to compensate slightly for the failure of any metro columnists to show up and glean insights from the rich spectacle of the Barclays Center groundbreaking March 11.

Below are links to the first five "columns."

March 15: Atlantic Yards a "job creation" engine? Only if you believe the myths propounded by Bloomberg, Paterson, and Ratner

March 16: Deep bench at the groundbreaking? There were only enough Brooklyn elected officials to play three-on-three

March 17: Did Brooklyn "do it again" or just get played? The endless marketing and unbearable banality of borough iconography

March 18: The Darryl Greene asterisk on minority contracting (not that Paterson noticed), the Bloomberg asterisk on the CBA, and now the City Bar's CBA critique

March 19: Legal payoffs, dubious payments, FCR's corporate ethics, and the continuing mystery of Ridge Hill
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Previous posts of note

  • Newbies start here
  • Journalists' crib sheet
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  • Timeline as of 2006
  • Original site plan
  • Prokhorov to own arena?
  • The Development Agreement in court
  • Times wimps on Prokhorov
  • Freddy's last, last night
  • DDDB on Goldstein
  • FCR's lobbying blitz
  • Goldstein settles
  • ESDC urges FCR's eviction date
  • MGPP vs. Development Agreement
  • Freddy's settles
  • Prokhorov's TV debut
  • Phantom columnists at groundbreaking
  • Team hype: groundbreaking coverage
  • Judge: "deplorable lack of transparency"
  • Paterson punts on AY
  • Gerges condemnation decision
  • December 2003 p.r. packet
  • Visual history of AY
  • FAQ before groundbreaking
  • Gilmartin op-ed: AY "is happening"
  • 8000 permanent jobs?
  • Looking back at eminent domain
  • Street closings mystery
  • Development agreement: 25 years
  • News from master closing
  • Court argument in MGPP case
  • Blight = cracked sidewalks
  • Perkins hearing on eminent domain
  • Ridge Hill indictment
  • 2010 look ahead
  • 2009 look back
  • Repairs needed for subway tunnesl
  • Master closing completed
  • MTA lawsuit dismissed
  • Doubts about major league hockey
  • Strange bedfellows fighting e.d.
  • Naming rights deal cut in half?
  • Columbia eminent domain case
  • BALDC on infrastructure bonds
  • Arena bonds authorized
  • Court of Appeals upholds eminent domain
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  • 2009 public hearing
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  • New arena design
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  • AYR = future of news?
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  • ESDC's Lago: AY takes "decades"
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  • FCE: focus on arena
  • Gehry pessimistic
  • Cops: crime comes from malls
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  • Little Pink House review
  • Brooklyn Paper wants arena bailout
  • Moody Markowitz profile
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  • Brett Yormark, remixed
  • 2009 look forward
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  • Marty 2008 interview
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  • Carlton Avenue Bridge
  • AY on hold
  • IFC on AY media
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  • "Brooklyn South"
  • Crain´s recognizes reality
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  • Looking back at DEIS hearing
  • Urban Room rebranded?
  • The missing market study
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  • Ratner to shareholders
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  • Zimbalist on Lehrer
  • Marty's Brooklyn!!
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  • Zimbalist contradictions
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  • Supreme Court says no
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  • Post-Kelo conference
  • NYPD on ejection incident
  • "Brooklyn Day" rally
  • ESDC on timetable
  • Brodsky on West Side Stadium
  • FCE report=NYT mag?
  • Gehry's B1 charade
  • Arena 12/31/10?
  • Decoding timetable p.r.
  • Bruce: AY 2018
  • Dueling rallies
  • City Funding Agreement
  • State Funding Agreement
  • CBA brochure
  • Miss Brooklyn cuts
  • Affordable housing delay
  • Fairway vs. Whole Foods
  • FCR gift to "slush fund"
  • FCR admits lie
  • Eminent domain appeal
  • Brooklyn Was Mine
  • Blight vanishes
  • Blight dodge
  • Madden decision
  • Ombudsman appears
  • PlaNYC 1950 parking
  • Arena, 2011
  • Doctoroff on ULURP
  • Ratner on WNYC
  • "Absurd" process
  • MAS posture
  • Security study
  • Times "rowback"
  • Setbacks revealed
  • de Blasio's due diligence
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  • UNITY plan
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  • Columbia expansion
  • Garaufis decision
  • Ward Bakery follow-up
  • "The Burrow"
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  • Nets tix $
  • NYC losses?
  • Condos from start
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  • Stuckey departs
  • Tax-exempt bond deficit
  • Housing bonds revealed
  • AY & Dodgers
  • CB 6 purge
  • B63 reroute?
  • MI on env. review
  • UDC to ESDC
  • Madden hearing
  • Glazer on AY
  • BK Tech plan
  • PlaNYC on AY
  • FCR at ECB
  • Times op-ed
  • Footprints exhibit
  • Community Liaison
  • Brooklyn Matters
  • Marty on traffic
  • Burden on AY
  • Doctoroff on AY
  • Suite-intense arena
  • Doctoroff on Moses
  • Barclays ad
  • Barclays event
  • ESDC on crime
  • Post-FEIS comments
  • Arena schedule
  • What if?
  • Times on scaleback
  • Marty on AY/terrorism
  • AY & 421-a reform
  • Miss Brooklyn blocks clock
  • PACB approval
  • Brodsky hearing
  • Fiscal impact memo
  • ESDC approval
  • AY signage
  • Evasive Gargano
  • Three-year narrative
  • Wind study
  • No redevelopment without AY?
  • AY "spaceship"
  • Nets game visit
  • Eminent domain hearing
  • Crowd noise
  • DEIS hearing
  • Graphic renderings
  • Fiscal impact gaps
  • DEIS released
  • Footprint crime?
  • Instant gentrification?
  • "Friendly condemnations"
  • Push-poll helps Boyland
  • The 50/50 plan
  • MAS criticism
  • Coney option
  • Extreme density
  • CBA flaws
  • Gehry misreads critics
  • No-towers brochure
  • The Times on the blogs
  • FCR's web site fisked
  • The Times's buyout story
  • The $6 billion lie
  • Final Scope flaws
  • AY scaleback
  • Open letter to Public Editor
  • Gehry grilled
  • Dark genius DePlasco
  • ESDC's Gargano
  • ATURA history
  • New Downtowns
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  • The Times & "open railyard"
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