2012-05-16T23:21:03.000-08:00 Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn contact@developdontdestroy.org http://www.dddb.net/ http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3010 2012-05-09T18:31:17.000-08:00

Eminent domain for private gain? Discuss. So Barbra Streisand is booked at Bruce Ratner and Mikhail Prokhorov's Barclays Center in Brooklyn. We're supposed to get schpilkas or something? Here's what's making us verklempt.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3009 2012-05-09T17:31:44.000-08:00

Our friends at BrooklynSpeaks has started a petition: Should arena crowds really be able to drink all night? In Chicago, Wrigley Field is allowed to host only 30 evening events a year.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3008 2012-05-02T11:18:33.000-08:00

One billion dollar arena at least $200 million in taxypaer subsidies 105 full-time arena jobs. Not a good equation: Barclays Center to Only Offer Approximately 105 Full-Time Jobs Forest City Ratner, AEG and Levy Restaurants representatives gave a presentation on the Barclays Center's hiring process and available jobs to Community Board 6. Park Slope Patch.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3007 2012-04-30T10:51:58.000-08:00

Phew, are we glad they added quotNew Yorkquot to the round one which will be on center court, wouldn't want to confuse it with Brooklyn, Michigan or Brooklyn, Kansas.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3006 2012-04-26T14:11:18.000-08:00

Today Mayor Bloomberg was at the Barclays/Prohorov/Ratner arena site with Bruce Ratner and Markowitz to tout 2,000 jobs coming to the arena. Of course 2,000 jobs aren't coming to the arena, and needless to say the photo op was absent of details and substance.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3005 2012-04-23T10:32:02.000-08:00

The Star Ledger's Dave D'Alessandro tells the sorry tale of the hapless Nets franchise in anticipation of their final game in New Jersey tonight. The Nets are a cursed franchise for sure, but there was no bigger curse than the introduction of Bruce Ratner into the team's epic tale of woe and horrible luck: ...And in the coup de grace of public manipulation economic, emotional or otherwise a real estate developer named Bruce Ratner bought the team in 2004 for the sole purpose of using it to justify the seizure of land via public domain, and making the Nets' new arena the centerpiece of a $5 billion complex in Brooklyn that he will build mostly with taxpayer money. This process took more than eight years from conception to groundbreaking, and every step of the way, you got the impression that the Nets and anyone who actually cared about them were watching the clock, as Ratner stripped the team of assets and sold managing interest to an oligarch, Mikhail Prokhorov.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3004 2012-04-20T07:16:30.000-08:00

Battle for Brooklyn will screen on Friday, April 27 at 6:30pm at Brown Memorial Baptist Church (52 Gates Avenue, between Waverly and Washington Avenue) in Clinton Hill, just 3 blocks away from the eastern end of the Atlantic Yards project site.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3003 2012-04-20T07:12:57.000-08:00

Yesterday marked the latest indictment of Forest City Ratner cronies, partners and strident Atlantic Yards supporters/operatives. Here's the tally: Salvester (Sal) Zarzana, former head of a Carpenters Union Local and high-profile, shrill cheerleader for Atlantic Yards, indicted for extortion and identified as a soldier for the Genovese organized crime family.) Disgraced State Senator Carl Kruger also a, shrill Atlantic Yards cheerleader, and Ratner funded former pol, indicted and pled guilty to federal bribery and corruption charges.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3002 2012-04-17T07:23:48.000-08:00

As early as 2005, Forest City Ratner partner and the former Executive Director of ACORN, Bertha Lewis, expressed her hopes for the Atlantic Yards project: quot...we hope this project helps stem the tide of gentrification, which has gotten so bad that condos in East New York are selling for $400,000!quot She and others, expressed this sentiment as their support of and partnership with Ratner became more entrenched and strident. This nugget of history and context is lost on the New York Times and reporter Joseph Berger today in perhaps the paper's worst (certainly one of its worst) round-up article on developer (and NY Times partner) Forest City Ratner's land of Broken Promises otherwise known as Atlantic Yards.

http://www.dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=3001 2012-04-12T12:13:35.000-08:00

For Immediate Release: April 12, 2012 VICTORY IN COURT FOR DDDB COMMUNITY Unanimous Appellate Court Decision Slams ESDC, Forces NY State to Do Supplemental Review and New Approval of Ratner's Atlantic Yards Project Golden Opportunity for Governor Cuomo To Fix the Atlantic Yards Debacle BROOKLYN, New YorkDevelop Don't Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB), BrooklynSpeaks and all of their co-plaintiff community groups have won another victory in court over the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) and Forest City Ratnertheir second in a row.