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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

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The fallout from a celebrity birth: other parents complain that security required by Jay-Z/Beyonce hindered their visits

It's tough out there in celebrity-land. Jay-Z and wife Beyonce had their baby, and they're rightfully delighted.

But the security plans instigated apparently on their behalf--the cordoning off of sections of the hospital, and the blocking of certain visitors--has prompted a backlash.

The New York Daily News: Edgar Ramirez misses precious hours of newborn's life because of Beyonce and Jay-Z security detail: Bronx dad compared Lenox Hill Hospital to prison because of tight security for Blue Ivy Carter

The New York Daily News: Blue Ivy Carter already getting special treatment: Security for Beyonce's baby stops Bed-Stuy dad from seeing his newborn twins; Brooklyn dad says Beyonce's security stopped him and wife from seeing their preemie twin girls

The New York Post: Beyonce’s hospital mates baby-bumped: Lockdown’ infuriates other new parents

The New York Times: As R&B Royalty Gives Birth, Security Irks Hospital’s Other Patients

MSNBC: Hospital denies Beyonce rented a whole floor for birth: Lenox Hill spokesperson says star was in executive suite, was 'billed the standard rate'

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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
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  • 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
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  • Court of Appeals upholds eminent domain
  • BrooklynSpeaks lawsuit
  • Crain's on "Tenacious B"
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  • KPMG report critiqued
  • Bloomberg's gentle bio
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  • 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
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  • FCE: focus on arena
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  • Carlton Avenue Bridge
  • AY on hold
  • IFC on AY media
  • Brooklyn at Eye Level
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  • Arena 12/31/10?
  • Decoding timetable p.r.
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  • Dueling rallies
  • City Funding Agreement
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  • CBA brochure
  • Miss Brooklyn cuts
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  • Fairway vs. Whole Foods
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  • Brooklyn Was Mine
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  • Arena, 2011
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  • Setbacks revealed
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  • Garaufis decision
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  • "The Burrow"
  • New Domino
  • Nets tix $
  • NYC losses?
  • Condos from start
  • Times on BK blogs
  • Radio Golf
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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
  • Housing debate
  • The Times & "open railyard"
  • Changes in jobs/housing
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