Topic: Atlantic Yards

'Rockridge rat' Moshe Kasher at SF Sketchfest

0 . My SF Sketchfest runneth over with "Wet Hot American Summer," "Stella" and Upright Citizens Brigade reunions (through Feb. 4), but what of the...

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Since October, the federal Park Police-who oversee the space where DC's two Occupy encampments at McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza-have admirably ...
The Brooklyn activist who led the resistance to the Atlantic Yards project has angered his new neighbors with a construction project of his own.....

Atlantic Yards cans rat problem

Developers of the rat-plagued Atlantic Yards project began doling out free rodent-proof trash cans yesterday to their vermin-weary neighbors.....

Brooklyn hockey fans want Islanders

The New York Islanders are one step closer to being nudged off the Island and cast adrift - but Brooklyn fans stand ready to hoist them back in.....

Cops crack down on illegal parking

Cops have finally cracked down on the rampant illegal parking around the Atlantic Yards construction site.. . The Daily News reported this month...

New York court stalls second phase of Brooklyn arena project

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Supreme Court on Wednesday stalled the second and much bigger phase of a huge arena-residential complex in Brooklyn, ordering an updated environmental review that includes public hearings.The grass roots group that sued the developer, Forest ...

Ground Broken on New Nets Stadium

After six years of lawsuits and stalled plans, ground was broken last week on the 18,000-seat Barclays Center, the future home stadium of the New York Nets basketball team, at the Atlantic Yards site in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. Developer Forest ...

The Battle Over Atlantic Yards

For New Yorkers, apartments are like leaky life rafts: For those Brooklynites losing their homes to make way for the highly controversial Atlantic Yards project, it's as if the neighborhood has been hit by an urban-development tsunami.. Supplemented by documentary video ...
The most common criticism you can level against the American stage is that it simply has nothing to with life today. The troupe makes documentary theater?usually with an irresistible score composed by Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson )?that is supposed ...