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www.NoLandGrab.org
website: http://www.nolandgrab.org/
location: Brooklyn • NY • United States
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location: Brooklyn • NY • United States
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No Land Grab is an activist blog about the Atlantic Yards project.
Blog postings
This week in history...Visual Acorn Edition
Norman Oder's post today about the August 2006 DEIS hearing inspired NoLandGrab to hit the archives. We found this memorable photo of Bruce Ratner walking with Bertha Lewis and wearing an ACORN t-shi...
Two years after the DEIS hearing, one change is "just business"
Departed since then, along with Forest City Ratner point man Jim Stuckey, is point guard Jason Kidd, who gamely appeared with teammate Vince Carter to help provide sports flash for the cameras. (He's ...
Gov. appoints head of Empire State Development
Marisa Lago was introduced at a midtown press conference as president and CEO of the Empire State Development Corp. Upstate and downstate ESDC presidents will report to her, unlike in the Spitzer admi...
On Teasing Walls, Traces of Roasters Past
Another sign, which occupies nearly the width of a wall of an apartment house at 540 Vanderbilt Avenue — the Hot Bird Building, as some call it — sits in the path of the Atla...
Gehry Out as Architect of Theater in Brooklyn
The architect Frank Gehry will no longer be a part of the project to build a permanent home for the Theater for a New Audience in the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the theaterâ€...
Forest City Closes $167M Financing for Build
The headline seems a little truncated, but GlobeSt serves up a detailed report on the financing of Forest City's 80 DeKalb, including this quote from President and CEO Chuck Ratner regarding loan matu...
If A Lettuce
Brooklyn poet Benjamin Gantcher has published If a Lettuce, a book of poems from which he'll be donating all profits to Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn's legal fight against the Atlantic Yards project....
First they came for Dean St.
The Footprint Gazette
First they came for Dean St., and I did not speak out - because I don't live on Dean St. Then they came for the Carlton Ave. Bridge, and I did not speak...
The lesson of Field of Schemes: political reform needed
This is the eighth and final part of a multi-part interview (conducted May 28) with Neil deMause, the Brooklyn-based co-author of the book Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Publi...
Watch the Vanderbilt Yards in Motion
Video by Tracy Collins from the Flickr Atlantic Yards Photo Pool, via Gowanus Lounge.
This image was created by Tracy Collins and posted on flickr. It is very short and shows some mo...
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