[Photo courtesy of Tracy Collins/flickr]
We posted about the Saturday block party on Dean Street yesterday, but can’t resist this photo put in our GL Photo Pool by Tracy Collins that shows construction work on Dean Street plus a flier for the block party. Most of the buildings on the left are slated to come down [...]

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We’ll leave aside the assertion in this video as to whether or not this video shows “harassment” of senior citizens by Bruce Ratner to get to the crux of the issue: it painfully the demonstrates the extreme violence being done to the quality of life of an elderly woman that is enduring Atlantic Yards demolition [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Tracy Collins/flickr]
This is 644 Pacific Street, which is near Sixth Avenue, in its current state of demolition. The building with the water tower is the Newswalk Condo, which will remain standing and, ultimately, very lonely surrounded by newly vacant lots.

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[Photo courtesy of Tracy Collins/flickr]
Atlantic Yards footprint photographer Tracy Collins offers this updated photo of Ward Bakery demolition porn. It is coming down steadily.

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There’s a reading from the Brooklyn Was Mine collection of writing tonight at 7:30PM at Greenpoint’s wonderful WORD bookstore at 126 Franklin Street. Contributors including Philip Dray, Rachel Cline and Joanna Hershon read and sign books at Greenpoint’s WORD. Proceeds from the sale of Brooklyn Was Mine go to support Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. More [...]

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The Atlantic Yards Webcam now has a flickr stream which is updated with new webcam images. It is destined to grow into quite the collection.–flickr

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There’s a benefit concert coming up at Southpaw for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn on Thursday, May 15 featuring Clare & The Reasons, John Wesley Harding, Richard Julian and special. There’s a screening of the documentary Brooklyn Matters at 7PM and the show starts at 8PM. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. [...]

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The fight to sway opinions and create impressions about Atlantic Yards played out with a vengeance over the weekend and yesterday. Of course, on Saturday, there were dueling rallies of supporters and a counter-demonstration by supporters that seemed orchestrated by Forest City Ratner and groups that had signed the Community Benefits Agreements. On Sunday, Mr. [...]

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[Photo courtesy of threecee/flickr]
Call this the Big Bruce Chair as it comes from Pacific Street, within the Atlantic Yards footprint. Also, it has fall and can’t get up.

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Via a post on No Land Grab titled “MTA Police DDDB Database? Photographers Detained at AY Site,” here’s a vid about the recent incident of police harassment of a videographer in the Atlantic Yards “footprint.”

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“If residents living near the Atlantic Yards project didn’t feel personally affected by the controversial $4.2 billion basketball and skyscraper project, they might now. In one of the first irritations to hit Prospect Heights as a result of the project, hundreds of Dean St. residents awoke Wednesday without water - compliments of Forest City Ratner [...]

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