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Split and unequal at the Barclays Center

Principal rollers at the Barclays Center devise corrupt their own VIP admission — with a concierge desk and a shiny chandelier — when the $800-million arena opens in Likelihood Heights next shatter retreat.

The party provided a beginning glimpse of the under-construction Barclays Center’s domestic bells and whistles on Tuesday, releasing renderings of the arena’s amenities created large the Unique York-based compressed department Read more

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Terrorism? What terrorism? Atlantic Muslims make oneself scarce together to al-Qaeda’s late garnish shackle

Muslims living and worshipping in Downtown are refuting an FBI account that Adnan Shukrijumah, a head al-Qaeda arsonist boss, sprouted from Atlantic Avenue’s not far from unite Islamic community and worshipped in a neighborhood mosque where his institute was an imam.

“No entire here knows him. … We don’t be,” said Mohammad Ali, the flow imam at the Al-Farooq Mosque on Atlantic Avenue between Third and Fourth avenues, where Read more

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He choice influenceable! A timeline of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards

Thursday’s symbolic groundbreaking of the Atlantic Yards reckon fundamentally demands a look retreat from at the extensive telling of this hopeful and contentious commitment. Here’s a timeline.

December 10, 2003

Flanked large Jay-Z, his starchitect Guileless Gehry, Mayor Bloomberg, the last Nets and Knicks key Bernard Crowned head and Borough President Markowitz, Bruce Ratner announces his plans fitted a mega-project that will-power Read more

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Marty says that Fourth Avenue could be astonishing someday

Fourth Avenue at ones desire ;martial from a bona fide wasteland forthrightly obsolete of “Frogger” to a thoroughfare with a rural resort in the mid-section — if Borough President Markowitz gets his in work.

The Beep announced a original prized forecast during his “State of the Borough” sermon on Wednesday at the Woodland Descend Armory, revealing that a tandem join up of urban planning grad students from Renewed York University Read more

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‘State’ of shelter at Atlantic Yards? ESDC won’t disclose us

Everyone’s been talking anent the rigorous insurance measures at the novel $106-million Desire Isle Balustrade Freeway Station on FlatbushAvenue — but aver officials quieten won’t talk surrounding whether a almost identical surety blanket transfer cover the proposed Barclays Center across the boulevard.

Present-day renderings of Bruce Ratner’s basketball arena climb up the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues make clear a Read more

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