It looks like there is some competition on the Barnes and Noble shelves for pride of Atlantic Yards place. Norman Oder has been hard at work on a book about the Brooklyn megaproject for the past year, but now his chief rival has thrown his pen into the ring. Read More
The city needs to build. We are running out of apartments (more on that later), and part of the reason, argues a new report out from the Regional Plan Association, is the cost of construction in New York City. At a fiery breakfast this morning, developers, builders and labor unionists debated the report, which places a good deal of blame on the latter’s ostensibly intransigent work rules. We’re planning another post later on the meat of the meeting, but one subject in particular bears mentioning on its own.
In the past, The Observer has looked at the potential for the city to revolutionize its construction practices through prefabricated buildings. It’s been a dream of architects and builders for nearly a century, almost since the first Model-T rolled off the line, but it has had limited impact on construction in the country, and almost none whatsoever in New York. Read More
Maybe there is hope for those opposed to Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project after all. Or at the very least, some vindication.
Yesterday, State Supreme Court Justice Marcy Friedman ruled that the Empire State Development Corporation erred in producing a modified timetable for the project last year, when it finally won state approval, and thus Read More
In The Observer‘s profile of Atlantic Yards watchdog Norman Oder, the master blogger laments how the mainstream media has ignored his biggest expose to date: plans by the state and developer Forest City Ratner to essentially sell green cards to Chinese investors in exchange for backing the arena-cum-condos project on the edge of brownstone Read More
Since he launched The Atlantic Yards Report in 2006, Norman Oder has written 3,747 blog posts on the contentious Brooklyn development project. It’s probably enough to fill an encyclopedia, let alone a lowly paperback.
But that is exactly what Mr. Oder is setting out to do, when he announces later today—in his 3,748th post—that Read More
The state ethics commission won’t ask David Paterson how Caroline Kennedy’s confidential records got out.
Norman Oder takes some questions on Atlantic Yards.
The Goldman Sachs p.r. offensive gets borderline offensive.
Would NBC Universal really go public?
Famous people will put on scrappy plays.
A female writer recalls the Read More
Daily News Editor in Chief Martin Dunn, who made an appearance this morning with Michael Bloomberg to promote a free financial services hotline for New Yorkers, has a small cameo in a new documentary about media bias and the Atlantic Yards project.
In a segment of the Independent Film Channel series Read More
… in the Atlantic Yards footprint. Or he never had them in the beginning. Norman Oder is reporting on a state Supreme Court ruling released on Tuesday. Don’t miss Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s jubilant statement.
The Real Estate has calls into Forest City Ratner and will update this post when it gets a Read More
Norman Oder, the blogger behind the Atlantic Yards Report, recently had two scoops that were widely picked up by the dailies. In December, he reported that the state had reduced its estimate for net tax revenues from the project by $465 million. In January, he discovered that the Mayor’s proposed 2008 budget Read More
Fresh on the heels of news that the city’s planning to pay double in subsidies for Atlantic Yards–a nugget Norman Oder broke on his blog–comes word that the city will also likely pay a lot more than originally planned for the new Yankee and Mets stadiums.
Mayor Bloomberg’s preliminary capital budget, released last Read More
