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Mayor Bill de Blasio on Inside City Hall.

De Blasio Defends Letting Private Consultant Sit In On Housing Policy Meetings

"There are people who are longstanding friends and colleagues and advisers. I'm not going to ask them to stop being friends and advisers because they happen to have clients."
By Will Bredderman
Mayor Bill de Blasio shovels dirt with top executives from Forest City Ratner and Greenland Group (Photo: Will Bredderman).

FCR, De Blasio Breaks Ground On ‘100-Percent Affordable’ Complex at Atlantic Yards

Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams and Bruce Ratner broke ground at 535 Carlton Avenue in Brooklyn.
By Will Bredderman
Mr. Adams on the campaign trail. (Photo: Ross Barkan).

Eric Adams and Laurie Cumbo Announce Affordable Housing Seminars

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo applauded a new series of classes to help Brooklynites apply for reduced-cost units
By Will Bredderman
(Patrick McMullan)

MaryAnne Gilmartin

By The Editors
The arena is there, but the housing towers remain ghosts.

Forest City Ratner Sues the City for More Atlantic Yards Tax Breaks

By Kim Velsey
The Barclays Center. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

A Drop in the Bucket: Barclays Center Fined $3,200 for Excessively Loud Concert

By Nicola Pring
Ms. Gilmartin.

MaryAnne Gilmartin Boasts About Building Affordable Housing, Moving to Brooklyn

By Kim Velsey
Ms. Gilmartin's new home is as classical as Atlantic Yards is modern.

Forest City Ratner VP MaryAnne Gilmartin Nets $3.85 M. Slope ‘Stone

By Stephen Jacob Smith
What about the Yards part of Atlantic Yards? (Dope on the Slope, flickr)

A Deck Delayed: Will Atlantic Yards Have To Wait For Blight-Concealing Rail Platform?

By Kim Velsey
Would a library in a private developer's high rise be the same? Brownstoner

Is the Public Getting Swindled By the City’s Short-Sighted School and Library Sell-Offs?

By Kim Velsey
Photo courtesy Brooklyn Eagle, Bob Scott.

A Ratner in the Stacks: Library To Sell Forest City-Adjacent Branches

By Stephen Jacob Smith

Legoland! Ratner Moving Ahead With Atlantic Yards Tower, World’s Tallest Modular Building

By Matt Chaban
As they once were.

Atlantic Yards Opponents Exhausted By Endless, Losing Battle

By Kim Velsey
The profits.

Barclays Center Sells almost $50 Million in Tickets in Six Months, Decides Devaluation is a Mistake

By Kit Dillon
Those towers? Still on except for one. (SHoP Architects)

Islanders Move to Brooklyn Will Not Make It Any Easier for You to Move to Atlantic Yards

By Matt Chaban

Goldstein, Hill & West: How New York’s Most Anonymous Architects Have Taken Over the Skyline

By Matt Chaban
What do you see?

<em>Times</em> Readers Think the Barclays Center Looks Like a Grilled Cheese Sandwich and a Burping Clam

By Kim Velsey
His hoopiness. (Getty)

Ratner: ‘We’ve Kept Every Single Promise We’ve Ever Made’

By Matt Chaban
Will anyone be wrapping about "blue and white, blue and white, blue and white" any time soon? (Kit Dillon)

The Barclays Center: Built for a Bank, Not for Brooklyn or the Nets

By Kit Dillon

Just How Bad Are the Giant Ads All Over the Barclays Center?

By Matt Chaban

Brooklyn Nets a Mega Mall: Forest City Mulls What’s Next for Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center

By Matt Chaban

Inside the Barclay’s Center, America’s Most Democratic Arena? [Video]

By Matt Chaban
Is affordable housing too hard for developers to handle?

Megaproject Developers Promise To Get Around To Affordable Housing Someday

By Kim Velsey
New York, as seen in Legoland... California? (Wikimedia Commons)

Oh, SNAP! New York’s First Legoland Coming to Yonkers, Courtesy of Bruce Ratner

By Matt Chaban
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