Atlantic Yards: While developer Bruce Ratner is busy trying to promote a professional basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets in the heart of Brooklyn, some developers are crying foul. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Developer Bruce Ratner is this close to bringing the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn, sources close to the negotiations said this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Goodbye New Jersey. Hello, Brooklyn. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Developer Bruce Ratner’s plan to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn could jeopardize plans to build a Coney Island amateur athletics arena, known as Sportsplex, which had recently gained new life as a possible venue for volleyball in the city’s bid to host the 2012 summer Olympics. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Community Board 2 will vote on the Downtown Brooklyn Plan at a rescheduled meeting on Feb. 3 in the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School, on DeKalb Avenue at Fort Greene Place, at 6 pm. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: When real estate developer Bruce Ratner pulled back the curtain on his colossal $2.5 billion plan to convert a swath of Prospect Heights into a Frank Gehry-designed neighborhood of apartments and offices centered around a professional basketball arena, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: As Brooklyn residents and elected and appointed officials digest the news that developer Bruce Ratner wants to build a colossal, $2.5 billion residential and commercial complex at Atlantic Terminal that would house his newly acquired New Jersey Nets, a far less publicized major rezoning plan that would pack Downtown Brooklyn with sweeping skyscrapers is rolling full steam ahead. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It’s the most exciting Brooklyn news in five decades. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Imagine it’s the Super Bowl. Your team is down by three points but has the ball on the 1 yard line. Then the coach sends the quarterback in … to take a knee. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The most complex rezoning plan in city history, which would convert Downtown Brooklyn into a booming metropolis with soaring towers and require the taking of seven acres of private land, is moving forward through the city review process — without input from Community Board 2. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: There are currently 38,574 homeless people living in New York City and 400 of them are at the center of a debate raging in Prospect Heights. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Robin Weil is an artist who lives in a small studio apartment on a quiet residential street in Prospect Heights. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: As the controversy heats up over the construction of a Frank Gehry-designed village and professional basketball arena in Prospect Heights, there is one group that apparently stands to benefit — property owners. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Call it the “dribble-down” theory, the foundation of “Ratneromics.” Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A group of Prospect Heights residents fighting to save their homes from condemnations that would make way for Bruce Ratner’s Nets arena development have interviewed a noted civil liberties attorney to take up their cause. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Developer Bruce Ratner may have some competition for his planned Nets arena site, a city councilwoman told Prospect Heights property owners this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Noted civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel will help several hundred Prospect Heights residents fight eviction at the hands of the state to make way for a colossal, $2.5 billion arena, office tower and apartment complex planned for the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Several hundred Brooklynites packed Borough Hall Wednesday night to tell Borough President Marty Markowitz just what they think about a city plan to convert Downtown Brooklyn into a mega-blocked, high-rise metropolis. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A public hearing on the rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn turned into a sing-along at Borough Hall this week as a Prospect Heights resident strapped on a guitar and headed to the microphone to croon her displeasure about the looming changes. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Lately it’s as if Brooklyn was the “straight guy” to the city and state’s “queer eye.” Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Standing outside the squat, three-story Institute of Design and Construction at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and Willoughby Street on Wednesday, the college’s president, Vincent Battista, squints in the midday sun, surveying all that surrounds him and all that he may soon have to leave. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Forest City Ratner is close to an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Empire State Development Corp. for development of the Atlantic Yards arena, office and housing development in Prospect Heights. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz gave his approval this week to the controversial Downtown Brooklyn Plan, a city proposal that would use the state’s power of eminent domain to condemn private property and rezone the area to allow for taller buildings. The Downtown Plan’s advocates say they envision a 24-7 commercial and residential hub with skyscraping office and residential towers. The plan overlaps, but is separate from, developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project that could include a profe Comment.

Atlantic Yards: For anyone who has ever walked past the barren Long Island Rail Road storage yards along Atlantic Avenue and thought, ‘Hey, know what would look great there?’ now’s your chance to vent those ideas to real-live urban planners who want to listen. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Amid rumors that developer Bruce Ratner and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller were trying to nip in the bud his plan to hold a hearing on the Atlantic Yards project, a Queens councilman said this week he will not be stopped. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The president of the group Brooklyn United for Innovative Development, or BUILD, has stepped down, claiming the group he helped found has veered from its initial goal of securing jobs for the community from developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Speaking at a building trades conference in Manhattan Thursday, developer Bruce Ratner thanked the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Gov. George Pataki for backing his $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It’ll be a “Rally at the Railyards” Sunday, March 28, for opponents of developer Bruce Ratner’s plan to build a basketball arena, office towers and apartment buildings in Prospect Heights. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: City Councilwoman Letitia James is calling on the city to remove from its massive rezoning plan for Downtown Brooklyn a small plot of land that is also a key element in developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards arena and office tower plan. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A sliver of land caught in the crosshairs of two separate but equally far-reaching development plans may find itself home to Brooklyn’s tallest structure — a 620-foot office tower — regardless of what might happen to it as it courses through the city’s public review process under the guise of a residential parcel. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Peter Kalikow said this week he would seek “maximum value” for an 11-acre Long Island Rail Road storage yards site in Prospect Heights — over which developer Bruce Ratner is looking to build a colossal arena complex — but demurred when asked if he would put the property through an open bidding process. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Chanting “No eminent domain for personal gain,” hundreds of protesters gathered in Prospect Heights Sunday, within three-point range of the site planned for a professional basketball arena that has been mightily opposed since it was proposed by developer Bruce Ratner last year. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Developer Bruce Ratner has been floating the notion that he might build a second sports facility — for amateur athletics — in addition to a professional basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets, on the site for the proposed Atlantic Yards development. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A community garden on Flatbush Avenue has become the latest pawn in an ongoing battle over developer Bruce Ratner’s plans to build a massive basketball arena and office tower complex across the street in Prospect Heights. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Although the state will provide the only formal review of developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards basketball arena, office and housing plan a Queens City Council member has scheduled a hearing to investigate whether the plan provides the best deal for the city. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: If you can’t beat ’em, build ’em a new building. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It was targeted to be among the first to go, under the city’s massive Downtown Brooklyn rezoning and redevelopment plan, but this week the Institute of Design and Construction got a reprieve. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A coalition of property owners who banded together to fight developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards basketball arena, office tower and housing proposal showed signs this week of crumbling. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: After battling to have their voices heard in an official public forum, community members were left fuming this week when a City Council hearing on the Atlantic Yards arena proposal left them waiting nearly five hours to testify. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Real estate developer Bruce Ratner is closing in on a $32 million deal to buy out residents of a nine-story building standing at what would be center court of his new Nets arena project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Consumer advocate and potential presidential spoiler Ralph Nader is coming to town this week to speak out against the proposed Brooklyn arena and Westside Manhattan stadium projects. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Just how much will a Brooklyn basketball arena cost New York City taxpayers? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: With homeowners in the path of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards arena, office towers and housing project set to accept lucrative buyouts, a group of residents who have been there the longest — and stand to lose the most — are now banding together. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A plan to build an Ikea store on the Red Hook waterfront moved a step closer to city approval Thursday night when a Community Board 6 committee recommended approving the plan. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Support the Nets … and win a prize! Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Williamsburgh Savings Bank building, the tallest in Brooklyn, noted for its gold dome and density of dental offices, is on the auction block, and experts believe the building will be converted to luxury condominium apartments. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Call him the “great Jewish hope.” Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Officials with Forest City Ratner, the company that plans to build a basketball arena surrounded by office towers and a housing complex in Prospect Heights, say they will relocate any apartment renters the plan displaces. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: First came the flier, then came the rally. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A Forest City Ratner executive said he expects most shoppers at the soon-to-open Atlantic Terminal shopping mall will drive rather than take mass transit. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Saying the appointed state officials who will review Bruce Ratner’s $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards arena, office tower and housing plan are not accountable to the public, a government watchdog group is calling for the plan to be put through city review. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It may one day be center court for the Brooklyn Nets, but over the weekend the intersection of Pacific Street and Fifth Avenue was center stage for a rally against Bruce Ratner’s massive arena, housing and office development plan. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner will not have to put his Atlantic Yards arena, office tower and housing development plan through the city’s public review process. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: So just who is buying the New Jersey Nets? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The lighting was unflattering and the margaritas overly sweet, but nobody seemed to notice at the star-studded opening in Downtown Brooklyn of one of the nation’s largest Target department stores. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Could the end of “Poletown” put the breaks on developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Citing Metropolitan Transportation Authority cries of poverty, opponents of the massive Atlantic Yards development project and mass transit advocates are calling on the MTA to seek top dollar for its valuable land. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week officially linked the proposed Atlantic Yards basketball arena to New York City’s 2012 Olympic bid. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Over the past several months, developer Bruce Ratner has been quietly plowing his way through Prospect Heights, purchasing everything property owners are willing to sell. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Independent Budget Office will conduct an economic study of Bruce Ratner’s $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards development, the city-funded fiscal watchdog agency announced this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The following list, obtained by The Brooklyn Papers, shows the names of those with an interest in the New Jersey Nets, the sale of which was approved by the National Basketball Association last week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Dolly Williams, the borough’s City Planning commissioner and a key player in Brooklyn’s development and land use review, is among the lengthy list of investors real estate magnate Bruce Ratner has secretly put together to purchase the New Jersey Nets. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Responding to the news that Brooklyn City Planning Commissioner Dolly Williams is a co-owner of real estate mogul Bruce Ratner’s recently purchased New Jersey Nets, a group opposed to the team’s move to Downtown Brooklyn filed a grievance this week with the city. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner and state and city agencies are close to signing a memorandum of understanding that would get the ball rolling on the developer’s proposed Atlantic Yards project, a Westchester daily newspaper reported this week. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: For the past two months, community board leaders, Borough Hall staffers and members of select organizations have been attending closed-door meetings with developer Bruce Ratner to negotiate a contract that would guarantee certain benefits to the communities surrounding his Atlantic Yards site. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz invited leaders of a select few groups and elected officials to a closed-door meeting Wednesday to “participate in dialogue” about developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, leaving critics of the plan out in the cold. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz subjected himself to questioning at the Park Slope Food Co-op last Saturday, much of it dealing with developer Bruce Ratner’s plan to build a basketball arena, apartment buildings and office towers in Prospect Heights. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: When plans for a 360,000-square-foot Ikea furniture store passed unanimously in a City Council subcommittee hearing on Tuesday — despite a large turnout of project opponents — the plan appeared to be a shoo-in success for the Sweden-based multinational corporation. Indeed, the next day, the council’s Land Use committee followed suit, unanimously approving the plan, with one abstention. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Announcements of benefits agreements being forged between Forest City Ratner and the “community” over the development company’s plan to build a basketball arena, office towers and apartment buildings in Prospect Heights left many residents, activists and elected officials scratching their heads this week wondering, ‘Who is in this community and who represents it? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Marty Markowitz said this week that depending on the results of a determination by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board, his appointee to the City Planning Commission will either have to divest of her interest in the New Jersey Nets or resign from the commission. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Over the past 10 weeks, while invited community members, community board leaders and heads of community organizations worked with Bruce Ratner to clandestinely forge a community benefits agreement for the Atlantic Yards development, the question asked by local politicians, individuals, neighborhood associations and opponents of the arena project has been, “Who exactly is the community?” Comment.

Atlantic Yards: In response to pressure from community members, politicians and the press, community boards 2, 6 and 8 publicly announced their involvement in negotiations for a community benefits agreement with developer Bruce Ratner over his planned Atlantic Yards basketball arena, office tower and housing complex. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Community Board 2 committee members revolted against the board’s chairwoman in two votes this week that called for the board to remove itself from negotiations with Forest City Ratner on a local benefits agreement for the planned Atlantic Yards project. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The question of what, if any, public review there will be of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development remains as much a mystery today as it did when the plan was unveiled more than a year ago. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner now says he’d consider keeping his New Jersey Nets in New Jersey if he failed to win approval for his contentious $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards mega-development, which includes a new 19,000 seat basketball arena. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: While Bruce Ratner continues to lobby New York city and state officials and community members to support the plan to build a 19,000-seat Brooklyn arena for his New Jersey Nets, city officials in Newark are lauding the successful procurement of funds and municipal approval to build an arena for the New Jersey Devils hockey team. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Despite boasts by Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner that he has purchased an overwhelming majority of the private property needed to build a basketball arena and office and apartment towers in Prospect Heights, The Brooklyn Papers has learned that several of the largest property owners there have not yet agreed to sell. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Members of Community Board 2 are set for a fight at the board’s monthly meeting this Wednesday over the issue of board participation in negotiations for a community benefits agreement with Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, an activist minister and leader of the House of the Lord Church on Atlantic Avenue, is negotiating with Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner to get a house of worship built into the planned basketball arena complex. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Aricka Westbrooks didn’t know when she opened her quirky fried turkey business on Myrtle Avenue a year ago that Jive Turkey would be quickly featured in the New York Times, Gourmet magazine and on the Food Network. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A competing developer’s plans for a portion of the Atlantic Yards site could throw a monkey wrench into Bruce Ratner’s dream of building a basketball arena, four office skyscrapers and 13 high-rise apartment buildings in Prospect Heights, The Brooklyn Papers has learned. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: As if opponents of Forest City Ratner’s “Atlantic Yards” plan didn’t already have enough reasons to dislike him, a top official of the development company has taken to labeling as “blighted” the six square blocks of Prospect Heights that the project would subsume. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Five months after a city fiscal watchdog announced that it would analyze the cost to taxpayers of developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed $2.5 billion Atlantic Yards project work has yet to begin on the study. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Simon Liu has made a name for himself by producing high-end stretchers — the wood frames upon which painting canvases are stretched — for world-renowned painters. Comment.