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• Under authority reform bill expected to be passed, below-market land sale by MTA (as in AY?) would be precluded

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  The New York Observer reports that Assemblyman Richard Brodsky and state Senator Bill Perkins have achieved success in their effort to reform public authorities, with apparently only modest pushback from Mayor Mike Bloomberg and others resisting the changes:Brodsky said that the original bill will be signed, and that both legislative [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:16pm EST
  by Norman Oder

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• Brooklyn Paper offers a to-do list for Bloomberg, omits Atlantic Yards

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  A Brooklyn Paper editorial about Mayor Mike Bloomberg's challenges headlined Mike — fix this already, lists several issues for Brooklyn, which Democratic challenger Bill Thompson won.It cites the Gowanus Canal and then Coney Island, "Bloomberg’s other main Brooklyn re-development plan," which is something of a fudge. While Atlantic Yards may [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:07am EST
  by Norman Oder

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• Times columnist sees how Bloomberg alienated Stuy Town residents; could a Thompson focus on AY have had an impact?

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  In a column today headlined What to Make of a Big Deal Gone Sour, New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer finds residents of Stuyvesant Town angry at Mayor Mike Bloomberg for his blase, let-the-market-work attitude toward residents vulnerable to loss of their apartments under new owner Tishman Speyer, whose principal [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:37am EST
  by Norman Oder

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• On Election Day, a Bloomberg story: the mayor disavows influence on Atlantic Yards

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  Peter Krashes, former president of the Dean Street Block Association, encountered Mayor Mike Bloomberg on the campaign trail two Saturdays ago at the Grand Army Plaza Farmers Market.Krashes told the mayor that neighbors near the Atlantic Yards footprint had problems with ongoing construction activities. Bloomberg responded that there wasn't much' [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 2:18am EST
  by Norman Oder

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• Pataki and Astorino Pound Pavement

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  Mayor Mike Bloomberg may not be backing Rob Astorino, but former Gov. George Pataki is. The two Republicans toured downtown Peekskill today on what they called a small business tour, assessing the challenges of mom-and-pop shop owners in the city where Pataki was once mayor. They met at the Governor George E. [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:31pm EDT
  by Gerald McKinstry

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• The Voice's Robbins: thin press means little scrutiny of Bloomberg (and what about AY?)

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  Village Voice columnist Tom Robbins, in a piece headlined The Mayor's Press Pass, provides some context about Mayor Mike Bloomberg and, I'd suggest, Atlantic Yards:One reason for the remarkably charmed life of Mike Bloomberg's administration as he sails toward re-election has been the waning of the city's news business.... When' [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 2:19am EDT
  by Norman Oder

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