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• Here’s What Eminent Domain Looks Like, Atlantic Yards Version

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  NY Observer by Eliot Brown As of last Wednesday, the state has officially filed in court to acquire the property in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards mega-development in Brooklyn, home-to-be of the Nets. The acquisitions are for much of the 22-acre site, as the states development agency, the Empire ...
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• Some 2009 AY round-ups, from the Daily Eagle, Curbed, the New York Post, and Streetsblog

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  Atlantic Yards Report Norman Oder rounds up the round-ups. Youll have to wait until next year (coming soon) for his. link
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• Lawn & Garden Care : How to Plan & Plant a Lawn

  
  Gardening Care Tips — Authority: 139
  To plan and plant a lawn, consider how much shade the yard area will get, pick a grass that is appropriate for the area, get rid of existing weeds, rake in some compost to the soil, lay down sod or plant grass seeds, and water the area heavily for the first few weeks. Encourage root activation by spraying a new lawn ...
  9 hours ago

• Support Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn With An End-of-Year Tax Deductible Contribution

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn There is one day left to make your end-of-year donations and receive a tax break for 2009... You can donate right now, right here: www.dddb.net/donate If you have not yet decided whether you will make an end-of-year tax-deductible contribution to fund the legal ...
  18 hours ago

• The Daily Bulletin Year In Review

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  Brooklyn Daily Eagle The Eagles legal-issues column looks back at 2009, when Atlantic Yards figured prominently in the halls of (in)justice. February Appellate Division dismisses appeal challenging the Atlantic Yards environmental impact statement, making opponents of the multibillion dollar ...
  20 hours ago

• Artists to Watch in 2010

  
  Guilt Free Pleasures — Authority: 431
  For the last of our lists this year, we have artists that have shown promise and/or generated buzz, and that were expecting to see interesting things from in the year to come. So, just in time for the New Year, we present you with "Artists to Watch in 2010": Ellie Goulding 21-year-old Ellie Goulding has already been ...
  22 hours ago

• Here’s What Eminent Domain Looks Like, Atlantic Yards Version

  
  The New York Observer — Authority: 746
  As of last Wednesday, the state has officially filed in court to acquire the property in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards mega-development in Brooklyn, home-to-be of the Nets. The acquisitions are for much of the 22-acre site, as the states development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, is seeking ...
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• Plan to develop NYC waterfront clears final step

  
  Going Coastal — Authority: 121
  A plan to revitalize a bleak stretch of land along Manhattan’s west side waterfront was approved Monday by the New York City Council, but the project remains without financing and it will likely be many years before any buildings go up.The City Council approved a rezoning plan for half of the 26-acre rail yards ...
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• Free Songs From Indie Label 4AD – including TUNE-YARDS

  
  Indyish — Authority: 129
  4AD has released a holiday sampler with one track from every album they released this year, including St.Vincent, W.Ward and the amazing, darling TUNE-YARDS – check her out performing in an awesome, only-in-LA, time travel passport office in the video below. tUnE YaRdS – “Hatari” Part I – ...
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• Ready for Freddys

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  The media cant get enough of Sundays theatrical beheading of "eminent domain theft" — its even responsible for the Atlantic Yards fights first-ever appearance in the beverage trade press. DRAFT News , Brooklyn bar fights for its right (to stay open) Our first Brooklyn drinking experience took place at ...
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• word of the day: plot

  
  Not Another F*cking Blog! — Authority: 114
  King Henry IV from dictionary.com : plot: a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, esp. a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose:  a plot to overthrow the government. Once again, an editor at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle “writes” an editorial about Atlantic Yards, and I just cannot let this ...
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• Gotham Gazettes 2010 predictions: three contributors are down on AY (wheres Marty?)

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  Atlantic Yards Report From the department of wishful thinking: If you didnt know better, by reading Gotham Gazettes 2010 predictions youd think that Forest City Ratners Atlantic Yards project is on its last legs rather than survived a key decision on eminent domain and seen the sale of $511 million in ...
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• Brooklyn BroadsideAtlantic Yards Closing: A Long Time Coming

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  Brooklyn Daily Eagle by Dennis Holt We cant help but thinking that someone went overboard when it came to spiking Dennis Holts eggnog. It was with mixed emotions that I read last week, right before Christmas, that all the legal papers for the Atlantic Yards project had been signed and executed. By one ...
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• Teen girl missing from Back of the Yards

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 163
  Police said today they were searching for a 16-year-old girl last seen in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Dec. 18. Mayumy Cruz was last spotted at 4423 S. Wood St. and might be with her boyfriend, according to a missing persons alert issued by police. Mayumy is a student at Tilden Career Academy High School. ...
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• Lizzyvilles Top 20 Tracks of 2009

  
  Lizzyville — Authority: 494
  2009 comes to a close and it appears from this list that my favorite songs of the year were dark, spooky, sad and apologetic, with just a few exceptions. In so many of these songs, the artists are wandering in the half-light, trying to relinquish something that matters too much to them. St. Vincent wonders what she ...
  2 days ago

• Atlantic Yards Bar Going Down in a Blade of Glory

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  Curbed Photo: Amy Greer/ NoLandGrab Following up its Chains of Justice stunt, Dean Streets Freddys Bar—the Prospect Heights dive that find itself in the unfortunate position of being located within the Atlantic Yards footprint o death—unveiled a nine-foot-tall PBR guillotine and decapitated a ...
  3 days ago

• Freddys Bar, Threatened by Atlantic Yards, Executes Dummy with Beer Cans, Vows Resistance

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 695
  Mayor Bloomberg remains bullish, or should we say Nettish, on the Atlantic Yards project: "While the rest of the country wrings its hands about the national recession," he says, "were bui...
  3 days ago

• Fighting the Man: Last week, the owner of Freddys,...

  
  Eater NY — Authority: 156
  Last week, the owner of Freddys, the Brooklyn dive bar unfortunately located right within the Atlantic Yards footprint, installed "Chains of Justice" on the bar as a protest against the eminent domain ruling in favor of the Bruce Ratners development . Now hes taken his fight to a new, yet still ineffective, level by ...
  3 days ago

• Bar builds guillotine out of beer cans to protest Atlantic Yards

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  NY Daily News by Mike McLaughlin and Erin Durkin Aux barricades! Its an open revolt at one Brooklyn watering hole that faces the wrecking ball to make way for the controversial Atlantic Yards project. Staff and regulars at Freddys Bar & Backroom built a 9-foot guillotine out of beer cans - and ...
  3 days ago

• It came from the Blogosphere...

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 500
  Brownstoner , Why Architecture Matters: Paul Goldberger and AY The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC on Christmas Day, was a rebroadcast of the original 11/17/09 show with New Yorker (and former NYT) architecture critic, Paul Goldberger. Speaking before the recent closing of the bond issue and property transfer ...
  3 days ago

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