2011
July 13, 2011
VICTORY IN COURT FOR DDDB AND ITS CO-PETITIONER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
Court Rules NY State Must Undertake Supplemental Review of Ratner's Atlantic Yards Project
Presents Golden Opportunity for Governor Cuomo to Fix the Atlantic Yards Debacle
2010
April 8, 2010
DDDB Files Motion Asking Court to Reconsider Case Against
Atlantic Yards Project Approval
Motion Follows New Evidence New York State Intentionally
Omitted From Legal Record
April 1, 2010
The Arena Can Wait. Affordable Housing Now.
Forest City Ratner Prioritizes Affordable Housing Over Barclays Center Arena In Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Project
March 1, 2010
Judge Grants New York State Right to Seize Homes By Eminent Domain for
Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards Boondoggle
Outstanding Legal Issues Still Plague Atlantic Yards
2009
December 23, 2009
Governor Paterson Allows ESDC To Move Forward With Illusory Atlantic Yards
and Eminent Domain Home & Business Theft Two Days Before XMAS
Despite “Master Closing” Big Legal Challenges Against Project
Remain
December 14, 2009
RATNER’S JUNK YARD BONDS
Forest City Ratner’s Questionable & Risky Atlantic Yards
Arena Bonds
Cuomo and DiNapoli Urged to Investigate These Bonds and The Empire State
Development Corporation
December 10, 2009
Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Plaintiffs Request Reargument in
Court of Appeals
Ask Court to Hold Decision on Request Until It Decides Columbia Case
Eminent Domain Ruling Against ESDC/Columbia Gives New Life to Brooklyn
Owners and Tenants Fighting to Save Their Homes and Businesses
December 4, 2009
Not So Fast, It’s Not Over
Court’s Decision in Columbia Case Breathes New Life Into Case
Against Eminent Domain for Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Project
Victory Against Eminent Domain Abuse Looks Like Tipping Point In
Statewide Fight
November 24, 2009
Constrained Court Rules Against Property Owners and Tenants
in Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Case
Despite Ruling, Fight Against Ratner's Brooklyn Project Is Far From
Over
November 19, 2009
DDDB to Comptroller DiNapoli: Paterson, Silver, Sampson
Must Review and Vote on Atlantic Yards Financing
PACB Role is to Prevent The Kind of Reckless Borrowing Envisioned
by the Ratner Project
November 8, 2009
Bruce Ratner Says: "Atlantic Yards Isn't a Public Project"
October 19,
2009
20 Co-Petitioners Sue Empire State Development Corp. and Forest City
Ratner For Illegal Actions Taken in Approval of Atlantic Yards Project
Lawsuits Pile Up Against the Besieged Project As Community
Lawsuit Seeks to Annul Project's Approval on Multiple Legal Grounds
October 13, 2009
Elected Officials, Straphangers Campaign and DDDB Sue MTA for
Sweetheart Deal With Forest City Ratner
Suit Says MTA Violated State Law and Atlantic Yards Deal Between
Ratner and MTA Must Be Annulled
Septemer 23, 2009
Bruce Ratner’s Oligarch Arena
Desperate Bruce Ratner Reaches to Russia in Rescue Attempt for Brooklyn
Arena Project
NBA and Treasury Department Must Vet Billionaire
September 10, 2009
On Day After New Arena Designs Released…
NYC Independent Budget Office Study Shows Ratner’s Arena a Financial
Loser for NYC
Warns That Planned Bond Arrangement Won’t Work
September 9, 2009
New Ratner Arena Design is Lipstick on a Corrupt Pig
Six Years Into Project And No Designs For the Promised Affordable
Housing
August 4, 2009
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn and 25 Community Groups Ask NY
State's High Court to Hear Their Appeal Challenging Atlantic Yards Blight
Designation, Charging Bias and Corruption by the ESDC
August 3, 2009
Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Challenge Asks Court of Appeals to Reject
Kelo
Brooklyn Property Owners & Tenants File Appeal Brief in NY
State’s High Court—The Court of Appeals
June 30, 2009
Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Case To Be Heard By New York’s
High Court
Property Owners and Tenants Will Argue Their Case Against the Empire
State Development Corporation In October
May 30, 2009
At State Senate Hearing on Ratner's Atlantic Yards Proposal:
NYC IBO: Nets Arena Would Be Money-Loser for NY City
MTA: Will Bail Out Ratner from Financial Commitments
ESDC: Modified Project Plan Will Require New Hearing & Vote
May 15, 2009
Court Rules Against Home, Business Owners and Tenants in Atlantic
Yards Eminent Domain Lawsuit
Plaintiffs Will Ask the Court of Appeals to Stop New York
State From Seizing Their Properties to Enrich Bruce Ratner
March 30 , 2009
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn et al. File Motion Seeking
Appeal of Adverse Ruling in Court of Appeals on Atlantic Yards EIS Lawsuit
March 20 , 2009
Ratner May Cut Gehry Beekman Tower in Half
If The Developer Can Only Build Half a Tower That’s Already Financed,
How Is He Going To Build Atlantic Yards’ Arena and 16 Skyscrapers?
ESDC Needs to Provide Some Answers
March 17 , 2009
U.S. Taxpayers To Pick Up Tab for Barclays' Vanity Project
AIG Bailout to Fund Barclays' Naming Rights Deal For Bruce Ratner's
Proposed Barclays Center Arena
February 26,
2009
State Appellate Court Rules for ESDC on Atlantic Yards EIS Appeal
But Justices Remain Skeptical About NY State’s
Blight Claim As Basis for Bruce Ratner’s Project
Community Petitioners Will Ask Court of Appeals to Review the Case
February 19, 2009
Open Letter To Governor Paterson Says: Stimulus Funds Must Not Be
Used To Bail Out Atlantic Yards
2008
December 17, 2008
Frank Gehry Lays Off Atlantic Yards Staff
Ratner Seeking More Favors from City, MTA and Private Lenders
For Failing Atlantic Yards Plan
December 4, 2008
Ratner Delays His Own Project
Developer Forest City Ratner Halts All Work In Atlantic Yards
Footprint Due to Financial Difficulties
It's Time for the Paterson Administration to Pull the Plug on Ratner's
Failing Plan
October 21, 2008
Bruce Ratner's Barclays Center Arena Not Qualified for Tax-exempt
Bonds Under Today's IRS Ruling
September 29, 2008
Court Rejects New York State's Effort to Dismiss Atlantic Yards Eminent
Domain Case
Ruling is a Major Setback for Bruce Ratner's Proposed Project and
the Empire State Development Corporation
Property Owners and Tenants Will Get Their Day in Court Next Year
September 18,
2008
Oral Argument in Appeal on Atlantic Yards Environmental Review and Approval
Focuses on Key Issue of Blight
State Appellate Court Justices Skeptical About New York State’s Blight
Claim As Basis for Bruce Ratner’s Project
August 4, 2008
Nine Property Owners and Tenants File Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain
Challenge in New York State Court
Petitioners Seek to Prevent New York State’s Seizure of Their
Homes and Businesses by Eminent Domain
July 7, 2008
DDDB and 25 Co-Plaintiffs File Appeal in Lawsuit Against the Empire
State Development Corporation, MTA & PACB
Plaintiffs Seek to Overturn Supreme Court Decision
on Suit Seeking to Annul Fatally Flawed Environmental Impact Statement
and Approval of Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards Proposal
June 23, 2008
Supreme Court Denies Eminent Domain Petition From Owners
& Tenants Facing Property Seizures for Atlantic Yards
11 Property Owners and Tenants Will Take Their Case to NY State Court
To Challenge the Improper Use of Eminent Domain Under New York State
Law
June 19, 2008
Letter to PACB Demands New Approval of Atlantic Yards Financing
in Light of Project's Dramatically Increased Price
Tag
June 5, 2008
While Its Atlantic Yards Proposal Faces Failure, Forest City
Ratner Manufactures 'Rally' In Support of … Forest City Ratner
May 5, 2008
New Frank Gehry Atlantic Yards Design: "Ridiculous" Design
Has No Impact on Stalled Project
Renderings Only Show Phase 1 of Project, Leaving Out Bulk of "Affordable"
Housing
May 4, 2008
Ratner Spins a Yarn!: Bruce Ratner Continues Atlantic Yards
Back Pedaling and Damage Control on the Atlantic Yards Stall
Developer of Jeopardized Mega Project Spins Daily News Column
Says Nothing New
April 7, 2008
Forest City Ratner Says They "Still Need More" Subsidy for
Heavily Subsidized Atlantic Yards Proposal
April 1, 2008
Goldstein et al v. Pataki et al
11 Property Owners and Tenants Ask the Supreme Court of the United States
to Take Their Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Case
Plaintiffs Ask Court to Consider Key Constitutional Issues
Seeking to Allow Their Eminent Domain Case to Proceed
February 26, 2008
Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Affordable Housing Would Get Four
Times the Subsidy of the City’s Average Per Unit
February 22, 2008
Atlantic Yards Affordable Housing in Jeopardy Due to Housing Bond Cap
"Crisis"
Forest City Ratner Must Come Clean About Their Ability to Finance
Their Housing Promises
February 11, 2008
Forest City Ratner Puts $58,000 Into New York Democratic Assembly
Campaign Committee "Housekeeping" Fund
First Contribution By Developer In At Least Nine Years
Campaign Finance Loophole Allows for Huge Contribution
After Atlantic Yards Approval, Before Project's Financing Agreements
February 1, 2008
Circuit Court Rules Against Homeowners, Business Owners and
Tenants in Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Appeal
Plaintiffs Intend to Ask US Supreme Court to Hear Their Case
Plaintiffs Will Seek All Legal Remedies to Protect
Their Homes and Businesses From Seizure by New York State
January 11, 2008
NY State Supreme Court Rules
for ESDC in Atlantic Yards Lawsuit
Project Cannot Move Forward While Federal Eminent Domain
Case Is Pending
Community Plaintiffs Plan Appeal
2007
December 11, 2007
Doctoroff
Says Community is Right: Atlantic Yards Should Have Gone Through ULURP
Project Has Not Started Construction, Mayor Bloomberg
Can Still Follow Doctoroff's Advice
November
26, 2007
Major Security Flaw Revealed in Ratner's Atlantic Yards Plan: Arena Setback
Only 20 Feet From Congested Brooklyn Avenues
Newark Arena Requires Street Closings - How is Brooklyn Different?
ESDC, NYPD, Mayor and Governor Not Saying.
October
14, 2007
“You can't construct an arena and put it right against a street in a
post 9/11 world.”
-Newark Police Director, Garry McCarthy
Will Brooklyn Arena Be Safe From
Terror?
Newark Prudential Center Street Closings Raise Troubling
Questions;
Elected Officials and Community Groups Call for State Hearing on Atlantic
Yards and Terrorism Security
August 1, 2007
Brooklyn-based Author Phillip Lopate and Brooklyn Businessman Harry
Tarzian
Join DDDB Advisory Board
July 26 , 2007
Behind Closed Doors, a Ratner Conpromise
After "Negotiations," Developer Bruce Ratner Still Set to Reap $200
Million Tax Break from 421-a "Reform" Bill's Exclusive "Atlantic Yards"
Clause
June 21, 2007
Albany 421-a Reform Bill Hands One-of-a-Kind, Special Favors
to Forest City Ratner Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards Project
Would Be The Only Project to Receive Tax Breaks for Luxury Condos Under
Bill
Where Does the Favoritism and Backroom Dealing End?
June 6, 2007
Federal Court Rules That Goldstein v. Pataki Eminent Domain
Case Belongs In Federal Court, But Dismisses Case Anyway
Plaintiffs Optimistic That They Will Prevail on Appeal
June 6, 2007
Documents Show More Than Half of the Financing for Forest City
Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Project Is Government Backed
Project Seeks At Least $1.4 Billion in Tax-Exempt Housing
Bonds, Gobbling Up Available Housing Funds From All Over New York City
May 24, 2007
Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards to Blame, in Part, For Looming Con
Edison Record Rate Hike
During Project Approval State Said Atlantic Yards Would Not Significantly
Impact Electrical Infrastructure
April 5, 2007
26 Co-Petitioners File Lawsuit Against the Empire State Development
Corporation, PACB, MTA and Forest City Ratner Companies
Community Lawsuit Seeks to Annul Fatally Flawed Environmental Impact
Statement and Approval of Forest City Ratner's "Atlantic Yards"Project
March 19, 2007
In Buying Albany’s Approval and the City’s Acquiescence Bruce Ratner
Was Number 3 Lobbying Spender During 2006
“Atlantic Yards” Developer Spent $2.11 Million on Lobbying Without
Spending a Single Cent on Acquiring Vanderbilt Rail Yards
March 8, 2007
Forest City Ratner Misleads Public On Construction Timeline;
(Minimum) 15-Year Build Out Looms
Parent-Company CEO Says Arena Won't Open Until 2010; “We
Are Terrible” in Estimating Time Needed for Construction
March 7, 2007
State Court Rules Ratner Improperly Obtained Lease For Properties
in “Atlantic Yards” Footprint
Developer’s Claims of “Control” of Properties Misled ESDC, PACB;
Ruling Significantly Increases Costs of Project
March 2, 2007
Forest City Ratner Jumps Gun on Demolitions; Fate of “Atlantic Yards”
Plan Rests in Courts
Seeks Demolition Permits Though Eminent Domain, Environmental Suits
Could Stop Project From Being Built as Proposed; Norwood Redux
February 28, 2007
“Atlantic Yards” Financial Projections Fail to Shed Light on Forest
City Ratner's Potential Profit
Figures Released By ESDC Under Threat of Legislators'
Lawsuit Leave Many Questions Unanswered, Appear to Grossly Understate
Profit
February 23, 2007
U.S. Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation Re: “Goldstein v.
Pataki” Reveals Strength of Plaintiffs’ Eminent Domain Challenge
Attorneys Optimistic of Convincing Presiding Judge Garaufis
To Hear Case
in Federal Court; Challenge Will Proceed Regardless of Venue
January 30, 2007
Atlantic Yards and Ratner/Barclays Arena Are Not Viable
Property Ownership Map Explains Why
January 29, 2007
Public Cost of 'Atlantic Yards' Continues to Balloon
City Doubles Direct Taxpayer Subsidy for Ratner Plan From $100 Million
to $205 Million
January 17, 2007
Constitutional Rights v. Naming Rights
Ratner Announces Arena Naming Rights Deal With Barclays
Bank
Arena Faces Uncertainty ofFederal Eminent Domain Lawsuit
2006
December 20, 2006
Done Deal? The Judiciary Will Decide.
Fate of Atlantic Yards To Be Determined by the Courts
PACB Approves Atlantic Yards Despite Utter Lack of Public
Financial Disclosure
December 5, 2006
Thousand of Letters Delivered to: Silver, Bruno, Pataki, Spitzer,
Quinn
Letters Call for Postponing Atlantic Yards Vote Until Federal
Eminent Domain Suit is Resolved
November 15, 2006
ESDC Certifies Final Environmental Impact Statement
Trying to Ram Ratner Plan Forward, State Agency
and Ratner Fail to Make Meaningful Changes or Mitigations
October 26, 2006
Brooklyn Property Owners and Tenants File Federal Eminent Domain
Lawsuit
Against Ratner, Pataki, Gargano, Bloomberg and Doctoroff
Plaintiffs' Suit Seeks to Halt the Abusive and Unconstitutional
Use of Eminent Domain for Ratner's Atlantic Yards Development Project
October
23, 2006
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Walkathon Raises Over $100,000
for Legal Fight Against Ratner's Atlantic Yards
Over 1,200 Donors Prep Fight Against Eminent Domain Abuse, Environmental
Degradation and Undemocratic Development Process
October 23, 2006
Mayor Bloomberg Says Three Men in a Room Seems Unconstitutional
and Undemocratic
Develop Don’t Destroy Says That's Right
September
5, 2006
ESDC Atlantic Yards Public Hearing on Election Day is Unacceptable
Develop Don't Destroy Urges the Public Not to Attend Hearing but
to Participate in the Electoral Process
July 18, 2006
Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner Release
DraftEnvironmental Impact Statement
Three Years into Ratner’s Brooklyn Proposal and Still Nobody
Knows the Developer’s Profits or the True Public Cost
Project Balloons to $4.2 Billion from $3.5
Billion
Financial Benefits for State Substantially Lower Than Promoted
by Developer
Public Process Timeframe is Unacceptable
• Download the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
•
Download the General Project Plan (GPP)
July 17, 2006
THOUSANDS AT MASSIVE RALLY AGAINST RATNER PLAN
Brooklynites and New Yorkers Demonstrate at Grand Army
Plaza
Against Ratner Plan for 16 Skyscrapers and Arena Sweetheart Deal
July 12, 2006
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Continues Momentum Announcing
Eight New Advisory Board Members:
Former NY City Planning Commissioner and Urban Planner
Ron Shiffman
Joined by Lynn Nottage, Rick Moody, Toshi Reagon, Philip Gourevitch, Myla
Goldberg, Michael Showalter and Chris Doyle
Read "Atlantic Yards":
Staving Off a Scar for Decades
By Ron Shiffman
June 28, 2006
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn and Co-Plaintiffs File Motion
For Relief in the Court of Appeals
Plaintiffs Seek Fairness in Process in Which Attorney David
Paget is Shared by Forest City Ratner and ESDC on "Atlantic Yards"
Proposal Review
June 24, 2006
Phantom Project Pork
State Finalizes $100 Million Appropriation for Highly Speculative
Ratner "Atlantic Yards" Proposal
June 13, 2006
THE CONEY ISLAND
ARENA SOLUTION
An Arena at Coney Island Could Bring Potential End to Pitched Battle
Over Ratner's "Atlantic Yards" Skyscraper and Arena Proposal
Built for Crowds--With Ample Space--Brooklyn's One-time
Entertainment Destination Could Rise Again
May 11, 2006
Ratner Hides His Own "Atlantic Yards" Project
No Towers in PR Mailing, All Towers Today
May 11, 2006
New Atlantic Yards Proposal, Same as the Old Proposal
New Design Is 16 Skyscrapers Worth of Windowdressing
May 8, 2006
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Announces Formation of Advisory Board
Brooklynites Including Rosie Perez, Steve Buscemi, Jonathan Lethem,
Heath Ledger, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Salle, Dan Zanes, Nelson George,
Congressman Major Owens and Supreme Court Eminent Domain Lead Plaintiff
Susette Kelo
Join the Fight Against Bruce Ratner's "Atlantic Yards" Behemoth
April 26, 2006
JANE JACOBS, 89, URBAN CRUSADER
Passing of Activist and Urban Thinking Giant Reminder of All That
is Wrong With Ratner's "Atlantic Yards"
April 12, 2006
Albany Grants $100 Million for Ratner Proposal
"Atlantic Yards" Developer Receives Subsidy While Project
Remains a Financial, Planning and Environmental Mystery
April 6, 2006
Ratner/ESDC "Atlantic Yards" Scope of Analysis Seriously Flawed
Developer Increases Project Size, Makes Hollow Claims & Ignores
Community
April 3, 2006
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Sends Public Letter Calling on
City Council to Oppose Yankee Stadium Plan
Steinbrenner Plan, Like Ratner/Nets Plan, is an Affront to Communities
and a Rip-off of Taxpayers Around the City and State
March 30, 2006
Albany Buries $33 Million for Ratner Arena in Education Fund
"Atlantic Yards" Developer, Seeking $100 Million, Receives Subsidy
While Proposal Remains a Financial, Planning and Environmental Mystery
March 15, 2006
NYPIRG, Elected Officials and Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods Submit
Briefs in Support of Conflicts of Interest Finding in Review of ÔAtlantic
Yards'/Ratner Proposal
March 8, 2006
Impending Demolition of "Underberg Building" By Ratner Attempt
to Stabilize Battered "Atlantic Yards" Proposal
Ratner's Demolitions Subvert State Review Process
February 16, 2006
Empire State Development Corporation to AppealĘDecision
to Disqualify Conflicted Attorney David Paget from Review of Ratner's
"Atlantic Yards"
Move By ESDC Raises Serious Questions About Its Desire
to
Retain Lawyer So Roundly Rebuked by Justice Carol Edmead on Tuesday
February
14, 2006
State Court Judge Rules ESDC/Ratner Lawyer Has Conflict
of Interest
DDDB and Co-Plaintiffs Win Case to Disqualify Lawyer Representing
Ratner and ESDC
February 8, 2006
Councilwoman Letitia James, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery
and Congressman Major Owens Join In Filing an Amicus Brief Against The
Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner
Elected Officials Representing Proposed Ratner Development
Site Support Suit Seeking Injunction on Rubber-stamped Demolition Approval
and Disqualification of Conflicted Attorney
February 7, 2006
South Brooklyn Legal Services Joins Lawsuit Against
Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner
Low-income Advocates Seek Injunction on Rubber-stamped Demolition
Approval and Disqualification of Conflicted Attorney
January 18, 2006
DDDB and Community Co-Plaintiffs File Suit Against Empire State
Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner
Suit Seeks Injunction on Developer's Proposed Demolitions
Around "Atlantic Yards" and Disqualification of ESDC's Counsel-Sive,
Paget & Riesel-for a Conflict of Interest
2005
October 6, 2005
The Crain's Insider Says Ratner Opponents Wield Political Power
Leading Ratner Opponents, Letitia James and Norman Siegel
Thump Ratner Supporters in Districts Impacted by the Developer's 18 Skyscraper
and Arena Plan
September 29, 2005
Bruce Ratner Buys B.U.I.L.D., Fabricating Support for Atlantic Yards
Smoking Gun IRS Documents Reveal $5 Million Payment to Supposed
"Community Organization"
B.U.I.L.D and Ratner Have Denied Funding Scheme
September 20, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg Misleads and Misinforms on Ratner's Atlantic Yards
Grossly Overstates Jobs Promised, Understates Number of Luxury
Apartments
September 14, 2005
The MTA Accepts Low-Ball Bid From Bruce Ratner
Ratner and MTA Rip Off Taxpayers With Deal Well Below Competitor
Extell's Offer and Half the MTA's Appraised Value
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Planning Lawsuits
September 1, 2005
The New York Times & Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards: High-Rises &
Low Standards
Report: Newspaper Shirks Duty to Cover Development by its Own
Business Partner, Ratner
Coalition Requests Response from Executive Editor, Public Editor
August 17, 2005
DDDB Reveals Secret Agreement Among Bruce Ratner, New York City and State
Besides Private Memorandum of Understanding, What Else is Bruce
Ratner Hiding?
August 17, 2005
Develop Don't Destroy Attorney, Jeffrey Baker Reprimands the MTA on Atlantic
Yards
Says MTA Has Set Forth on a Misbegotten Course With Its Lack of Response
to Eminent Domain Issue and Bad Faith RFP Process
July 27 , 2005
The MTA Chooses Exclusive Negotiations
with Low-ball Bidder Ratner
In Full Public View the MTA Abdicates Its Responsibility
to the Public, Puts Development at Vanderbilt Yards at Risk, and Ignores
the High Bid from Extell
July 26 , 2005
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Attorney Tells MTA Ratner's Bid is Contingent
on Eminent Domain
Legal Counsel Informs MTA
of Ratner's Legal Hurdles and Ramifications
July 26 , 2005
The Developer Has No Clothes
Ratner Rejection of Extell Arena Compromise Exposes Ratner
Plan for What It Is: An Arena as a Front for a Massive Land Grab
July 25 , 2005
Extell Bids $150 Million vs. Ratner's $50 Million for the MTA's Rail Yards
in Brooklyn
DDDB
Demands That MTA Deliberate for More Than Two Days And Postpone Vote Until
Next Meeting in September
June 28, 2005
Bloomberg's PR Tactics Mislead on Ratner's So-called "Community"
Benefits Agreement
Ratner's 20-year History of Broken Promises Show Bad Faith
June 23, 2005
The U.S. Supreme Court Misses Historic Moment
Develop Don’t Destroy Urges Albany to Curb Eminent Domain Abuse
March 9, 2005
Develop Don't Destroy Calls on Democratic Mayoral Candidates To Oppose
Bruce Ratner's Taxpayer-Subsidized Sweetheart Deal
Open Letter Demands that Candidates Treat Brooklyn Like
the West Side
March 4 , 2005
Bloomberg, Pataki Declare War on Brooklynites and Taxpayers
MoU Will be DOA Once Public Learns What a Bad Deal Ratner's
Plan Is
2004
December 6 , 2004
Develop Don't Destroy Attorneys File Brief with US Supreme Court
High Court's Decision Could Kill Bruce Ratner's Nets Arena/High-rise
Proposal
November 30, 2004
Brooklyn Community Boards 2, 6 and 8 Host Pep Rally for Forest City Ratner
Community Members are Left Out in the Cold While FCR Supporters
Get VIP Treatment Ratner
November 18 , 2004
Ratner "Community Benefits Agreement" (CBA) is DOA and Brooklyn
Community Board Chairs Helped Kill It
DDDB and Community Board Members Slam čNew Low" in Community
Participation, and CB Conflict of Interest
November 4 , 2004
Bruce Ratner's Greed Kills Lower Manhattan Deal
Pace Univ. Withdraws After Developer Breaks His Promise
"What a Shock!" Says Develop Don't Destroy "Would
He Do That to Brooklyn!????"
October 7 , 2004
Brooklyn Minister and "Caring" Bruce Ratner to Pursue "Community
Benefits Agreement"
Ratner Trying to Divide Community Over Who Gets Crumbs from His Table
August 26, 2004
DDDb Files Official Complaint with NYC Conflicts of Interest Board Demands
City Planning Commissioner Dolly Williams divest interest in Ratner development
plan or face legal consequences.
August 24, 2004
Leading Elected Officials, Olympic Expert Brian Hatch and DDDB Blast "Land
Grab Wrapped in Olympic Rings"
DDDB unveils watchdog report exposingfatal flaws, false claims
in NYC2012 bid
August 23, 2004
Ratner Arena Victims Unveil Message to International Olympic Committee
President:
"Please Don't Destroy Our Homes"
August 16, 2004
Guess Who's Coming to Brooklyn with Bruce Ratner?
Tyco Crook Dennis Kozlowski, City Planning Insider Dolly Williams
What other dirty secrets are hidden inside Nets shadow syndicate?
August 12, 2004
Tish James, DDDB Challenge NYC to "Get in the Game" after NBA
Stiffs Community, Approves Nets Sale to Ratner
Unveils úSafety Nets Plan" to promote real public oversight
and demand real public accountability in arena deal
August 5, 2004
14 Organizations Join DDDB’s Call for Passage of Albany Legislation
Bill Would Require City Review of Ratner’s Nets Arena Plan
Diverse Communities United in Demanding ULURP Review for
17 High-Rise Megadevelopment
August 3, 2004
The Unraveling of Ratner's Bogus Nets Bid, Part V
Major Investor Pullout is Latest Sign That Deceptive Developer's
Support is Tanking
August 3, 2004
Michigan State Supreme Court Rules Against Eminent Domain Abuse
Landmark Decision Is A Wake Up Call to Other States' Courts
Ruling Bolsters Argument That Bruce Ratner's Nets Arena Complex
Proposal Does Not Meet The 'Public Use' Requirement for Eminent Domain
August 2, 2004
Bruce Ratner Cries Wolf Again... Fourth Announcement of NBA Approval Is
Not Followed by Vote on the Nets
Fans and Community: "Who's Calling the Shots Here?" DDDB:
"Only Ratner's Shadow Syndicate Knows!"
July 30, 2004
Straphangers to Provide Huge Subsidies for Bruce Ratner's Nets Arena Complex?
New York Riders Will Get Railroaded Unless MTA Demands Top Market Price
July 26, 2004
DDDB Questions Objectivity of Daily News's Coverage of New Ratner Mall
in Brooklyn
Draws link between Ratner ad supplement Sunday and puff piece column
the same day
July 21, 2004
City Council Members Charles Barron and Christine Quinn Join Tish James's
Call for Nets Arena Complex Oversight
Warn Against úFronting"
by Developers
July 15, 2004
Nets Fire Sale Begins: Taxpayers to be Burned Next
July 14, 2004
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Calls for ULURP Process for Javits Expansion
and West Side Stadium
DDDB Demands ULURP Equity for Brooklyn
July 8,
2004
City Councilmember Letitia James Urges Bloomberg and Miller to Launch
Formal Economic Review of Nets Arena Development
June 28, 2004
Independent Economic Analysis of Ratner Nets Arena Plan Shows Project
Will Lose $500 Million in Public Funds
DDDB Releases Study to Debunk Ratner's Bogus Claims and Warn
Potential Investors and Taxpayers that the Project Would be a "Sucking
Sinkhole"
June 19, 2004
Develop Don't Destroy Rally Draws 3,000 Community Members. Opposition
to Ratner Plan Grows, 40 Groups Join Community Coalition.
June 16, 2004
Develop Don't Destroy Condemns Order Mandating Residents Support Nets
Arena
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