If Atlantic Yards Is Built, I Pledge To...

Richard Cooper 2 months ago Region: New York

What is Atlantic Yards?  Atlantic Yards is a combination sports arena for the NBA professional team the Nets, commercial and residential space.  This is in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.  (In New Yor... more

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Yankees Miss Financial Tagging

Richard Cooper 3 months ago Region: New York

  The Yankees baseball team will not have to produce more financial documents subpoenaed by the New York State Legislature, according to a Albany, New York State Supreme Court Judge John C. Egan Jr.'s ruling  (R... more

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NYC MTA's Bailout Of Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Developer

Richard Cooper 4 months ago Region: United States

The board of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, a state agency which operates the mass transit of the City of New York and the commuter rail lines feeding into the city, voted to lower the amount from $100 million to $20 ... more

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Greedy In Brooklyn: Well-connected Developer Seeks Still More Subsidies For Brooklyn Arena Scheme

Richard Cooper a year ago Region: New York

Real estate developer Forest City Ratner, headed by Bruce Ratner, will seek more subsidies from New York City taxpayers for the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn.  The project includes an arena for the Nets baske... more

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Brooklyn Walkathon Against Eminent Domain Abuse Boosts Legal Fund

Richard Cooper a year ago Region: New York

The October 4th, 2008  Walkathon on behalf of the legal fund of Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) raised $45,000 despite the downturn according to DDDB www.dddb.net.  They are combatting the attempt by devel... more

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Walkathon Against Eminent Domain

Richard Cooper a year ago Region: New York

The Libertarian Party of New York will literally walk for freedom and property rights in Brooklyn on October 18th.  There will be a walkathon for the legal fund of eminent domain opponents Develop, Don't Destroy Brook... more

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Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Abuse Scheme Confronts Reality

Richard Cooper a year ago Region: New York

The NY Times reports that Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn is suffering growing pains from the slowing economy (Charles V. Bagli, NYT March 21, 2008 http://www.nolandgrab.org/archives/2008/03/slow_econ... more

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