Topic: Forest City Ratner Companies

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.....

Illegal parking rampant at Atlantic Yards

Illegal parking and phony parking placards are rampant around the Atlantic Yards construction site, locals and advocates say.. . A recent survey by...

Battle of the Brooklyn BIDs

Small-business owners around MetroTech are battling a move by downtown Brooklyn powerbrokers to take over their merchants group.. . The Downtown...
The Atlantic Yards project is lagging on its promise to create much-needed construction jobs.. Only 100 people have been put to work at the...

Ratner's Atlantic Yards plan Nets critics

A state official says funds Nets minority owner Bruce Ratner raises for the Atlantic Yards through a federal program that grants green cards to...
<div id="subtitle">Last resident on NYC site of NBA Nets arena project agrees to leave, sell condo for $3 million</div><div><p>The last holdout in a long-running land dispute with the developer of an NBA arena agreed Wednesday to ...

Straphangers sue to annul sale of Atlantic Yards

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The troubled Atlantic Yards project, a multibillion-dollar redevelopment in Brooklyn, came under renewed fire on Tuesday as a group of elected officials and consumer advocates filed a lawsuit seeking to annul the sale of the site.The suit, brought ...

Atlantic Yards work comes to a halt

The article reports that the Forest City Ratner's $4.2 billion project to revitalize the Atlantic Yards in New York, New York, was placed on a temporary halt due to ongoing litigation. Five years ago, Forest City Ratner officially unveiled its ...
Rupert Murdoch will consolidate the offices of his chain of weekly newspapers into one 18,000-square-foot space in Bruce Ratner's One Metrotech Center, the 24-story Class A building at 70 Myrtle Avenue, according to an annoucement released this morning.The group ...

Bruce Ratner Votes Obama

Bruce Ratner, president and CEO of Forest City Ratner, via a spokesman: "He enthusiastically voted for Barack Obama. " Copyright 2008 The New York Observer