Letter largely echoes positions/issues raised by BrooklynSpeaks coalition
(doesn't address scale/density)
Also in roundup:
--partial answers from ESD to my Qs
--a former neighbor's lament about disruption
--a Flatbush Ave. alert
-- six weeks of links
2/2 #AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK #BarclaysCenter

November Digest and Meeting Preview: New Development Team, Light Penalties, Murky Plans Will "Community Engagement," starting tonight, help shape a new plan or ratify what's already cooking?

Atlantic Yards Digest and Meeting Preview: New Development Team, Light Penalties, Murky Plans
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Will "Community Engagement," starting tonight, help shape a new #AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK plan or ratify what's already cooking?

Tight schedule: second workshop on future of Atlantic Yards announced for Dec. 8.
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/11/tigh...
Newly released "Project Briefer" omits key information re planned density.
#AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK
@joannesimonbk52.bsky.social @jabaribrisport.bsky.social

Workshop on Height & Density Ignores Plan for Two Towers Across from Arena, Hints at New Configuration Over Railyard While Nov. 18 session purports to solicit public input, state authority overseeing project already supports a giant project at Site 5. Blank map for railyard points to revision of six-tower plan.

Workshop on Atlantic Yards Height & Density Ignores Plan for Two Towers Across from Arena, Hints at New Configuration Over Railyard normanoder.substack.com/p/workshop-o...
#AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK

Workshop on Height & Density Ignores Plan for Two Towers Across from Arena, Hints at New Configuration Over Railyard While Nov. 18 session purports to solicit public input, state authority overseeing project already supports a giant project at Site 5. Blank map for railyard points to revision of six-tower plan.

Atlantic Yards Workshop on Height & Density Ignores Plan for Two Towers Across from Arena at Site 5
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Blank map for railyard hints at revision of previous six-tower plan.
What's next: new shapes? more towers? fewer towers?
#AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK

First public workshop on #AtlanticYards future (density, open space, affordability) set for Nov. 18. (2 hrs!)
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/11/firs...
Does new map, w/o 6 railyard tower sites outlined, suggest potential reconfiguration?
Would public input have much effect?
#PacificParkBK

Waiting for a New #AtlanticYards Plan. Lots of Big Questions.
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The project is moving ahead, but we don't know the proposed scale, scope, affordability, & design, nor what public concessions new developers will seek.
New deadline = 2040s?
#PacificParkBK

Why is this time different for #AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK?
No new plan (scope/timing) yet, but new "permitted developers" Cirrus & LCOR cite agreement with labor (union pension funds supply capital), "mission-driven equity," focus on multiple income levels (not condos)... 2/

With short-notice Atlantic Yards CDC meeting scheduled for Thursday, is update coming on new "permitted developers"? Will "Community Engagement" start? In August, state officials said they had extended the suspension of enforcement and even accrual of $1.75 million a month in liquidated dam...

With short-notice Atlantic Yards CDC meeting scheduled for Thursday, is update coming on new "permitted developers"?
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/10/with...
Will "Community Engagement" start?
#PacificParkBK

Bi-Weekly Digest: Getting Busier? Beyond news of the project's future, coverage of developer Greenland's struggles and Mamdani's reticence.

Bi-Weekly #AtlanticYards Digest: Getting Busier?
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Beyond news of the project's future, coverage of developer Greenland's struggles (see Fortune Global 500 decline) and Mamdani's reticence.
My #PacificParkBK coverage roundup

As state extends suspension of affordable housing penalties, citing revised development proposal (& teams) now involving Site 5, advisory group presses ESD. Project contours (& ownership stakes) uncle... This is the first of a few articles on the Aug. 6 meeting of the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC), which is suppos...

As state extends suspension of #AtlanticYards affordable housing penalties, citing revised development proposal (& teams) now involving Site 5, advisory group presses ESD on enforcement.
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/08/as-s...
#PacificParkBK contours (+ ownership stakes) still unclear.

There was supposed to be a traffic study after 1,500 apartments were built. The DOT decided to wait. Maybe that makes sense, as plan changes await. Place this in the bucket of "things everybody forgot about." According to the June 2014 Second Amended Memorandum of Environmental Commitmen...

There was supposed2B an #AtlanticYards traffic study after 1,500 #PacificParkBK apartments were built
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/08/ther...
@nyc-dot.bsky.social decided2 wait
Maybe that makes sense, as plan changes are pending.
Current scope omits #BarclaysCenter impacts, but could change

Weekly Digest: Key Meeting on Project's Future Postponed; BrooklynSpeaks Starts Petition on Penalties At 38 Sixth tower, new troubles (flood damage, lease riders); Nets' parent BSE Global talks of "Brooklyn DNA"

#AtlanticYards Digest: Key Meeting on Project's Future Postponed; BrooklynSpeaks Starts Petition on #AffordableHousing Penalties
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At 38 Sixth tower, new troubles (flood damage, lease waivers); Nets' parent BSE Global talks of "Brooklyn DNA"
#PacificParkBK

Atlantic Yards CDC advisory meeting cancelled for lack of a quorum, but the topics could've been/could be discussed publicly, right? Yesterday's scheduled meeting of the (purportedly) advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Commission (AY CDC)--my preview --was cance...

#AtlanticYards Community Development Corporation advisory meeting cancelled for lack of a quorum, but the topics could've been/could be discussed publicly, right? atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/07/atla...
#PacificParkBK

After Less Than One Year, "Pacific Park" Has Faced Significant Wear Worn Main Lawn open space has required new turf, but yellow patches (from dog urine, likely) persist. What happens when more buildings open?

After Less Than One Year, "Pacific Park" Has Faced Significant Wear
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Worn Main Lawn open space has required new turf, but yellow patches (from dog urine, likely) persist. What happens when more buildings open?
#AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK

Agenda for Atlantic Yards meeting: "public engagement process planning." Also, developer Cirrus ramps up lobbying, both city and state. So Empire State Development (ESD)  has released the Agenda for the July 15 meeting of the purportedly advisory Atlantic Yards Community Dev...

Agenda for #AtlanticYards meeting Tuesday: "public engagement process planning."
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/07/agen...
Also, developer Cirrus ramps up lobbying, both city and state.
#PacificParkBK

Something's brewing. (A new permitted developer?) State sets July 15 for meeting of advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation. More than six weeks state officials suspended a deadline to enforce $2,000/month penalties for each of the remaining 876 (of 2,250) required...

Something's brewing. (A new permitted developer?) State sets July 15 for meeting of advisory #AtlanticYards Community Development Corporation.
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/07/some...
#PacificParkBK

So, was there a June 30 milestone, regarding the Cirrus joint venture, for the emerging Atlantic Yards plan? State officials won't say. A new joint venture led by Cirrus Real Estate is being evaluated by both Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/s...

So, was there a June 30 milestone, regarding the Cirrus joint venture, for the emerging #AtlanticYards plan? NY State officials won't say.
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/07/so-w...
#PacificParkBK

More elected officials than usual, including three from Congress
#AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK

Bi-Weekly Digest: BrooklynSpeaks Frustration over Penalties; Quiet MTA Renegotiation The lesson from Atlantic Yards, Borough President Reynoso warns city officials pushing the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Plan, is that commitments don't get enforced.

Bi-Weekly #PacificParkBK Digest: BrooklynSpeaks Frustration over Penalties; Quiet MTA Renegotiation
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The lesson from #AtlanticYards, @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social warns city officials pushing the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Plan, is that commitments don't get enforced.

In hiring Carpenters Union's political director, Cuomo likely solidifying support for Cirrus/union proposals, including emerging Atlantic Yards plan. There's another sign--beyond my previous coverage ( link )--of front-running mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo's alliance with union labor and ...

In hiring Carpenters Union's political director, candidate Cuomo likely solidifying support for Cirrus/union proposals, including emerging #AtlanticYards plan.
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/06/in-h...

#PacificParkBK

Update: BrooklynSpeaks
*has* met with the potential new (lead) developer of #AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK, though they didn't discuss details about project's future
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/06/upda...

NY Times columnist laments public spending on sports venues, provokes support and defense. The Barclays Center, though, didn't catalyze promised benefits. Sports Stadiums Are Monuments to the Poverty of Our Ambitions , New York Times columnist Binyamin Appelbaum wrote May 28: People who say tha...

NY Times columnist laments public spending on sports venues, provokes support and defense.
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/06/ny-t...
The Barclays Center, though, didn't catalyze promised benefits in the larger #AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK project in Brooklyn.

Is BrooklynSpeaks getting ready to sue over affordable housing, or renegotiate terms? Outrage from advocates and elected officials combines with pragmatism. Yesterday, the BrooklynSpeaks coalition, backed by several local elected officials, held a press conference regarding the failure to complet...

Is BrooklynSpeaks getting ready to sue Empire State Development over #AtlanticYards damages for missing #affordablehousing units, or to renegotiate?
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/06/is-b...
Outrage from advocates & elected officials combines with pragmatism. #PacificParkBK

Some questions for today's BrooklynSpeaks press conference on the missed affordable housing deadline Today at 4 pm, as I wrote ( link ), the coalition BrooklynSpeaks will hold a press event/rally with state Assemblymembers Bobby Carroll and ...

Some questions for today's BrooklynSpeaks press conference on the missed #AtlanticYards affordable housing deadline
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/06/some...
#PacificParkBK accountability
Today, how & why should anyone trust a future renegotiation?

#PacificParkBK Digest: Affordable Housing Delay, New Developer, and New Questions
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Alarm, outrage, & unresolved blight.
"Forget it, Jake, it's #AtlanticYards."
Meanwhile, BSE Global continues its "ecosystem" expansion.

Now there's a new firm involved in the #AtlanticYards #PacificParkBK joint venture, LCOR normanoder.substack.com/p/as-housing...

As Housing Deadline Nears, NY State Punts on Penalties, Reviewing New Development Team. Cirrus JV Now Said to Include LCOR BrooklynSpeaks, which in 2014 negotiated 2025 milestone, says public must be compensated for affordable housing not delivered

As #AtlanticYards #affordablehousing deadline nears, NY State punts on penalties, reviewing new development team, w/ new firm LCOR
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BrooklynSpeaks, which negotiated milestone, says public must be compensated for affordable housing not delivered #PacificParkBK

Flashback, 2014: What NY Times Scoop on the New Atlantic Yards Plan Missed Downplaying Greenland, omitting $2,000/mo. fines for 2025 deadline, and misleading re affordable housing and accountability. Today, the absent skepticism seems glaring.

Flashback, 2014: What NY Times Scoop on the New #AtlanticYards Plan Missed
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Downplaying Greenland, omitting $2,000/mo. fines for 2025 deadline, & misleading re affordable housing & accountability.
Today, the absent skepticism seems glaring.
#PacificParkBK

Flashback 2007 & 2014: "As things change in the future, who decides how the gains & losses are shared between developer profit & housing affordability?" Some Atlantic Yards observations remain evergreen. On July 1, 2007, after the New York Times published Official Sees Possible Risk in Big Pr...

Flashback 2007 & 2014 #AtlanticYards:
"As things change in the future, who decides how the gains & losses are shared between developer profit & housing affordability?"
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/05/flas...
Those Qs resonate today re future of #PacificParkBK
Can the process be trusted?