By Staff 3/23/06 6:06pm

Handicapping the Court

If we were doing a Linda Greenhouse-style analysis of today’s court hearing on the Atlantic Yards case, we’d have to hand the Empire State Development Corporation at least two of the appellate panel’s five votes. The other three are harder to read.

There was Associate Justice David Saxe, a Pataki-appointee who Read More

By Staff 2/16/06 3:44pm

Onward & Upward

The Empire State Development Corporation is going to appeal the conflict-of-interest decision by Judge Edmead, according to Daniel Goldstein, spokesman for Develop—Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the neighborhood group that won that part of the Atlantic Yards case heard Tuesday. Goldstein said the group’s lawyer received a call from the state agency’s lawyer this morning, alerting Read More

By Staff 1/19/06 5:16pm

Life in a Small Town


Charles Gargano, chairman of The Empire State Development Corporation, downplayed complaints yesterday about a possible conflict of interest because the agency, which is supposed to review the proposal for the Atlantic Yards complex in Brooklyn, relied on the same law firm that had advised the project’s developer, Forest City Ratner. “I don’t know Read More