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Oh, SNAP! New York’s First Legoland Coming to Yonkers, Courtesy Bruce Ratner
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New York, as seen in Legoland... California? Note the outdated 1 WTC, too. (Wikimedia Commons)
Finally, a reason to go to Yonkers!
And we have entertainer extraordinaire Bruce Ratner to thank for it, too.
Mr. Ratner's massive, corruption-laced Ridge Hill development will be getting New York state's first Legoland, according to The Journal.
Forest City Ratner Cos., the developer of Ridge Hill, has leased a roughly 33,000-square-foot space to...
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- Barclays Center and Partners Will Use City's Workforce1 Services and Give... (media-newswire.com)
Commercial Observer has some fun with my "defense" of Bruce Ratner
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Atlantic Yards Report Not to get all meta-insider-y or anything, but The New York Observer/Commercial Observer, which devoted one whole paragraph to developer Bruce Ratner in its "Power 100" list, devotes a whole bunch more to the purportedly man-bites-dog phenomenon...
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- Ratner says Barclays Center built to accommodate NHL team, too (nolandgrab.org)
From The Classical: Why the NBA Loves the Brooklyn Nets (and Why Bruce Ratner...
After I covered the April 30 launch of the new Brooklyn Nets logo, a reader commented quizzically that the NBA couldn't be marketing itself in 215 countries, as Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver claimed, because there aren't 215 countries.Indeed. It's countries and territories, as I learned when I recapped that launch event for The Classical, an independent sports web site: Why the NBA Loves the Brooklyn Nets (and Why Bruce Ratner's Now Talking...
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Why the NBA Loves the Brooklyn Nets (and Why Bruce Ratner's Now Talking Up...
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The Classical by Norman Oder Surely Adam Silver, the lean and confident NBA Deputy Commissioner, wasn't the star guest at the Brooklyn Nets' big branding/sporting goods reveal last Monday, held at a Modell's big box store catercorner to the in-construction...
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- Video: NYC Shows `Crazy' Demand for Rentals, Ratner Says (wpi.clipsyndicate.com)
- Crime Report: More Thieves at Ratner’s Atlantic Malls (nolandgrab.org)
- Ratner, whose firm once claimed "400 jobs" at the arena, now promotes "2000... (atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com)
Bruce Ratner on Naming The Nets
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Real estate developer Bruce Ratner, one of the co-owners of the soon-to-be Brooklyn Nets, appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at a press conference today to announce a plan to fill 2,000 jobs at ...
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- Bruce Ratner on Naming The Nets (api.bing.com)
Mayor Bloomberg, Marty Markowitz and Bruce Ratner hoop it up at Nets new home...
The mayor and developer Bruce Ratner announced plans to start filling 2,000 jobs at the Prospect Heights arena, some 90% of them part-time, with job fairs and recruiting at NYCHA developments. Few local residents were able to get construction ...
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Ratner on Bloomberg TV: first tower "definitely' will start this year...
On Bloomberg TV's Bloomberg TV's "In the Loop," jolly Bruce Ratner met friendly anchor Betty Liu, fresh from her hard-hitting interview last September.The one piece of news? When Liu said the modular housing tower has "sort of become a moving target," Ratner responded, "It's not been a moving target because of financing," but didn't quite explain the delay.He said the modular plan was "important in terms of cost, in terms of environment" and...
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In Daily News, Bruce Ratner packs multiple lies into one sentence: "For 100...
Bruce Ratner tells the New York Daily News, "For 100 years, this was a train depot in the middle of downtown Brooklyn. Now it’s the greatest arena I’ve ever seen.”No, it wasn't.About half the arena site was a railyard used to store and service trains. The rest consisted of buildings where people lived and worked, as well as a public street.Nor was that a depot, in the common definition: a "building for railroad or bus passengers or freight...
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Has BUILD done more for job-seekers, or Forest City? Barclays Center jobs...
Last month, when Mayor Mike Bloomberg joined his friend and neighbor Bruce Ratner at the in-construction Barclays Center to announce a plan for 2,000 jobs at the arena--1240 FTE, or 1,901 part-time--there was an important subtext: however useful Forest City Ratner's (paid) Community Benefit Agreement job-training partner has been, a city agency is in charge of hiring.Sure, Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development (BUILD) has a role...
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The Final Buzzer for the New Jersey Nets
Uncle Mike's Musing New Jersey Nets, born October 21, 1977, died April 23, 2012. Age 34. Time of death, 9:55 PM. Cause of death: Murder, stabbed in the back by Bruce Ratner. Wound mortal, but death took 8 years. ......
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