Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about “Atlantic Yards”

Atlantic Yards Planner: “Space on Streets is Useless Space”

By Jason Varone | Feb 22, 2007 | 18 Comments

In this week’s New York Observer, Matthew Schuerman talks at length with Laurie Olin, the landscape architect who may or may not have been teamed up with starchitect Frank Gehry on Forest City Enterprise’s Atlantic Yards project "to compensate for Mr. Gehry’s reputed lack of urban-planning skills." Schuerman writes: Mr. Olin’s role in the project […]

Will “Atlantic Yards” Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 20, 2007 | 4 Comments

The Atlantic Yards plan superimposed on the released JFK-to-Lower Manhattan rail link study (PDF docs). Click here for a much bigger map. Jonathan Cohn at BrooklynViews is reporting that the current plan for Forest City Enterprises’ Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn appears to preclude the possibility of someday building one of the Pataki Administration’s favorite […]

Eyes on the Most Powerful Man in New York State Gov’t

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 20, 2006 | No Comments

NoLandGrab is now reporting that Sheldon Silver is now expected to vote to approve Atlantic Yards today. The word is out, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is going to vote to APPROVE Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal because Governor Pataki has allowed a stand-alone vote, not tied to other appropriations. Also Silver feels that the financial […]

Did a Blogger’s Big Scoop Stall “Atlantic Yards?”

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 19, 2006 | 8 Comments

NY1 is reporting a rumor that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will not vote to approve Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development project at tomorrow’s three-men-in-a-room meeting of the Public Authorities Control Board. (Amazingly, this one meeting constitutes the only legislative "debate" and vote that this massive project will ever see). NY1 reports: According to a […]

A Parking Lot Grows in Brooklyn

By Aaron Naparstek | Dec 6, 2006 | 1 Comment

Norman "the Human Tape Rec’oder" Oder , the hardest working advocacy journalist in New York City, has really been digging in to the important but not-particularly-sexy issue of parking policy at Forest City Enterprise’s proposed "Atlantic Yards" development in Brooklyn. In July when the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) was issued it included a plan to […]

What Went Wrong With “Atlantic Yards?”

By Ezra | Nov 29, 2006 | 31 Comments

An Interview With Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society "There is disappointment, annoyance, and anger because there hasn’t been any way for anyone to have a voice. Who is listening to the people living around Atlantic Yards?" With the Pataki Adminstration scrambling to beat the buzzer and win approval for Forest City Enterprise’s […]

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