Was reminded of this by Develop, Don't Destroy Brooklyn. Steve Gilliard was one of the top bloggers and his death is quite a loss.

This photo from Campus Progress:

One topic he wrote about was the sheer insanity and hypocricy of Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. This is only part of a long article he wrote for his blog, The News Blog:

Forest City Ratner basically told working class black people that they would get jobs and shiny new homes. Which is probably not going to happen.

Atlantic Yards is overscale, ugly and will destroy the character of the neighborhood. But more importantly, those jobs will not materialize, because they never do. Unless there are firm committments, nothing happens...

Lets understand something. Most of the people Ratner bougtht off want jobs and have ZERO power to enforce any deal...  read more »