A group of Brooklyn residents who took part in a job training program tied to Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development project claims they were given false promises of union membership at the end of the program, according to a Federal lawsuit filed yesterday. Read More
BUILD, the community organization supporting the Atlantic Yards project, released parts of its revised IRS forms Friday, this time neatly typed, and acknowledges that its earlier application for nonprofit status was in error. James Caldwell, the president and CEO, will only get $69,000 a year, down from $125,000, and Marie Louis, chief operating officer, Read More
We laughed, then cried when reading this New York Times report on Forest City Ratner’s support from community groups re Atlantic Yards. Why we laugh: The article says that F.C.R. claimed that it did not provide financial support to BUILD–Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development, a “community group” that came out in favor Read More
