Tuesday, October 25, 2011
From Salon: Jay-Z’s hip hop of distraction
The hip-hop superstar hypes a Brooklyn, N.Y., sports arena that failed to deliver on its jobs pledge
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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
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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
- 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
- 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
- ESDC informational meeting
- NYPD report on high-risk buildings
- 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
- 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
- BrooklynSpeaks oversight
- Newark closes streets
- UNITY plan
- Con Ed increase
- "Affordable"/costly
- Columbia expansion
- Garaufis decision
- Ward Bakery follow-up
- "The Burrow"
- New Domino
- Nets tix $
- NYC losses?
- Condos from start
- Times on BK blogs
- Radio Golf
- Brooklyn Tomorrow
- Times on financials
- 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
- Housing debate
- The Times & "open railyard"
- Changes in jobs/housing
- Modern blueprint?
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