Tag: Development


Industrial, Homeless Policies Clash in East New York

By Nida Najar
A plan to build subsidized housing in a zone reserved for manufacturing businesses pits efforts to reduce the shelter population against hopes of saving industrial New York.


Traffic, Noise & Hope: Atlantic Yards Still Elicits Mixed Views

By Candace Amos
Opponents of Atlantic Yards feel vindicated by the challenges facing the development. Business owners in the area express a mix of concern and optimism.


Brooklyn: A Developing Story

By Jamila Pringle
Atlantic Yards may have generated the most heat, but it's just one of several ambitious development ideas that took shape in the borough over the past decade.


Opinions Harden Over Atlantic Yards Housing

By Darren Sands
The dramatic slow-down in housing construction at the Brooklyn site is fodder for opponents of the project. But supporters believe the development will still make good on its commitments.


Nets Arrive, Questions Remain At Atlantic Yards

By Neil deMause
The Nets are coming to Brooklyn with a 15-man roster and a tip-off in fall 2012. Traffic, jobs, housing and economic activity are coming, too, but no one is sure precisely how much or exactly when.


Brooklyn's Arena Is Coming. What's Coming Next?

By Neil deMause
In a matter of months the Nets will be playing ball at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic, as envisioned more than eight years ago by developer Bruce Ratner. But the rest of Atlantic Yards' promise has yet to be fulfilled. Given the deep disagreement the project prompted, what does that mean for Brooklyn?


Federal Funds Have City Planners Eyeing East New York, Bronx

By Jarrett Murphy
A federal planning grant to be shared among several governments on either side of the New York-Connecticut border aims for transit-oriented development.


Can a Year-Round Coney Island Succeed?

By Neil deMause
After seven years of legal wrangling, hundreds of millions of dollars in city expense, and the eviction of many of Coney Island's historic amusement operators, the island is still seasonal.


Saga Of The Worthless Condo

By Joe Walker
A developer broke the rules, the city belatedly cracked down and dozens of Brooklyn families own property with no legal right to exist.


A Quiet Alarm Sounds

By David Alm
A multimedia art exhibit in Fort Greene examines the neighborhood-changing going on all around it.
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