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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

Friday, April 01, 2011

DDDB's April Fool's: BS-5 program for Nets and Affordable Housing Now

From Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn:

Nets to Use Federal BS-5 Hope For Hoops Program: Mikhail Prokorov's Nets to Utilize Obscure Federal Immigration Program in Desperate Effort to Find New Hoops Talent, Fund New Concessions, and Pay Off Prokhorov Debts

The Arena Can Wait. Affordable Housing Now.: Forest City Ratner Prioritizes Affordable Housing Over Barclays Center Arena In Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Project

(This second one originally appeared last year, in slightly different form.)
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Previous posts of note

  • Newbies start here
  • Journalists' crib sheet
  • Project scale
  • 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
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  • Repairs needed for subway tunnesl
  • Master closing completed
  • MTA lawsuit dismissed
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  • 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
  • BrooklynSpeaks lawsuit
  • Crain's on "Tenacious B"
  • Battle of Brooklyn on 2006 approval
  • KPMG report critiqued
  • Bloomberg's gentle bio
  • ACORN's cluelessness
  • DCP on arena changes
  • Analyzing ESDC's responses
  • Oligarch Prokhorov buys Nets
  • IBO responds to ESDC
  • ESDC approval of MGPP
  • AY opponents lose in 33rd, 39th
  • AIA runs ESDC session
  • New SHoP arena design
  • Kahr report on housing
  • IBO: net gain to ratner, loss to city
  • Siegel ignored on eminent domain
  • The property ownership map, revised
  • ESDC & housing guaranees
  • Bloomberg blasts CBAs
  • AY and public authorities reform
  • No answers on assessments
  • 2009 public hearing
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  • Prospect Heights Historic District map
  • Revised MGPP issued
  • MTA deal revised
  • New arena design
  • Senate oversight hearing
  • Questions for oversight hearing
  • After e.d. case dismissal, groundbreaking?
  • AYR = future of news?
  • Affordable housing at market?
  • ESDC's Lago: AY takes "decades"
  • DDDB money crunch?
  • FCE: focus on arena
  • Gehry pessimistic
  • Cops: crime comes from malls
  • Brooklyn Paper sold to Murdoch
  • Hunley-Adossa challenges James
  • Little Pink House review
  • Brooklyn Paper wants arena bailout
  • Moody Markowitz profile
  • Pru Center for preseason
  • Gehry's role recedes
  • Brett Yormark, remixed
  • 2009 look forward
  • 2008 look back
  • FCR bails out ACORN
  • Marty 2008 interview
  • Morningstar on FCE
  • Brett Yormark profile
  • Inflated attendance
  • Indirect subsidies
  • Carlton Avenue Bridge
  • AY on hold
  • IFC on AY media
  • Brooklyn at Eye Level
  • "We control the pace"
  • FCR tried to not pay for trees
  • NYC´s chief urban designer on streets
  • PA´s Ward on AY
  • Imagine Coney
  • Did FCR save $55M?
  • Barclays recommits
  • Garvin and the "public realm"
  • FCR´s cognitive dissonance
  • FCR on Beekman Tower
  • LPC on Prospect Heights
  • ESDC adoption = approval?
  • Tax-exempt bonds grandfathered in
  • What NYTimes has ignored
  • Olin on break?
  • AY inevitability meme turns
  • Latest "liar flier"
  • Arena 2012?
  • Kucinich´s (first) hearing on Yankees
  • State Senate on eminent domain
  • EIS appeal hearing
  • Brodsky on Yankees deal
  • ESDC gets "brutally weird"
  • FCR to CB8
  • "Brooklyn South"
  • Crain´s recognizes reality
  • Departed Stuckey in Brooklyn book
  • Looking back at DEIS hearing
  • Urban Room rebranded?
  • The missing market study
  • ESDC mystery re utility work
  • Ratner to shareholders
  • EIS ignores footprint residents
  • Zimbalist on Lehrer
  • Marty's Brooklyn!!
  • Brodsky hearing on Yankees
  • Zimbalist contradictions
  • ESDC fib to feds
  • Discount on Yard price?
  • A (West Side) Stadium Story
  • Supreme Court says no
  • Marty on density
  • IRS "loophole"
  • 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
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  • Brooklyn Was Mine
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  • AY & Dodgers
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  • B63 reroute?
  • MI on env. review
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  • 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
  • Housing debate
  • The Times & "open railyard"
  • Changes in jobs/housing
  • Modern blueprint?
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