NY Observer > New Jersey Nets http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/26765/feed Articles from Observer.com en Report: Newark’s Booker, Devils Seeking Group to Buy Nets from Ratner [UPDATED] http://www.observer.com/2008/star-ledger-newark-s-booker-devils-seeking-group-buy-nets-ratner

The Star-Ledger reports that Newark Mayor Cory Booker and the New Jersey Devils are trying to assemble investors to buy the Nets basketball team from development firm Forest City Ratner.

Should the Nets be sold—Forest City denied that the team is for sale—it would presumably kill the more than $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, developed by Forest City under the premise that a new Frank Gehry-designed arena would be created for the Nets.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/star-ledger-newark-s-booker-devils-seeking-group-buy-nets-ratner#comments Real Estate Atlantic Yards Bruce Ratner Cory Booker New Jersey Nets Thu, 01 May 2008 13:28:38 -0400 Eliot Brown 68634 at http://www.observer.com Nets Plan 2010 Move to Brooklyn http://www.observer.com/2008/nets-plan-2010-move-brooklyn

The New Jersey Nets basketball team now plans to move to the Barclays Arena in central Brooklyn in 2010. The team originally planned to be in the arena, which is part of the Atlantic Yards project, in time for the 2009-10 season; but, as the Bergen Record reports this morning (via The Real Deal), the Nets missed a deadline for telling its East Rutherford landlord if it would move by 2009 or not.

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/nets-plan-2010-move-brooklyn#comments Real Estate Atlantic Yards Forest City Ratner New Jersey Nets Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:37:27 -0500 Tom Acitelli 62743 at http://www.observer.com Puff Daddy's Black and White Ball '98 http://www.observer.com/node/52980 Sean (Puffy) Combs was on the phone from a yacht in the Bahamas, and he was laughing.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/52980#comments New Jersey Nets New York Yankees Russell Simmons Sean Combs Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:00:00 -0500 Frank DiGiacomo 52980 at http://www.observer.com Puff Daddy's Black and White Ball '98 http://www.observer.com/node/36351 Sean (Puffy) Combs was on the phone from a yacht in the Bahamas, and he was laughing.    read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/36351#comments New Jersey Nets New York Yankees Russell Simmons Sean Combs Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:00:00 -0500 Frank DiGiacomo 36351 at http://www.observer.com The Morning Read: September 19, 2006 http://www.observer.com/node/30127 Rudy Giuliani will be campaigning for New Hampshire Republicans on Oct. 12, his first political trip to the presidential battleground since 2004.

Jeanine Pirro says she's tougher on perverts than Andrew Cuomo.

State campaign contribution limits didn't stop AIG from giving $50,000 to Eliot Spitzer in one day and $90,000 to George Pataki on another.

The head of the Port Authority won't force PA employees to relocate to the Freedom Tower, and once said he'd quit his job over moving employees into the building. Other prospective employees say they don't want to work in the Freedom Tower.

The city's drinking water is being protected from biological weapons by the hardy bluegill fish.

Mayor Bloomberg's plan to fight poverty includes a $1,000-per-child tax credit. The City Council, which needs to approve the overall plan, will hold hearings on Thursday.

Speaking at the New School yesterday, former Sen. John Edwards said, "There is a natural disconnect between market values and moral values."

The Transport Workers Union changed rules on how to elect its union leaders in the run-up to their December elections.

The New Jersey Nets extend their lease at home until 2012, but can move to Brooklyn earlier. Donald Trump won't pay $1.4 million in local taxes on his new project at Jones Beach, which he built but the state owns.

A state senator in New Jersey was paid $35,000 "to lobby himself."

An Associated Press photographer with alleged ties to terrorists is detained by the U.S. military.

And Errol Louis says the normally sedate judicial race on Manhattan's Lower East Side has turned into a mud fight.

-- Azi Paybarah]]> http://www.observer.com/node/30127#comments Politics Freedom Tower Jeanine Pirro New Hampshire New Jersey Nets Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:45:55 -0400 Observer Staff 30127 at http://www.observer.com In Big Slow Brooklyn Build, Is It Affordable Housing Last? http://www.observer.com/node/39392 What if Bruce Ratner never finished his gargantuan arena-and-housing development in central Brooklyn  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39392#comments Real Estate Atlantic Yards Brooklyn Bruce Ratner New Jersey Nets Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Matthew Schuerman 39392 at http://www.observer.com Brooklyn Magic! http://www.observer.com/node/39016 Early on the evening of June 13, basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson was standing b  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39016#comments Real Estate Bertha Lewis Bobby Turner Brooklyn New Jersey Nets Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Michael Calderone 39016 at http://www.observer.com Brooklyn Magic! http://www.observer.com/node/52354 Early on the evening of June 13, basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson was standing before a  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/52354#comments Real Estate Adam Pacelli Brooklyn Magic Johnson New Jersey Nets Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Michael Calderone 52354 at http://www.observer.com Speaker Quinn Still Mum On Atlantic Yards Arena http://www.observer.com/node/38948 Last week, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn asked Letitia James, who represents the Prospect Hei  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/38948#comments Real Estate Atlantic Yards Christine Quinn Letitia James New Jersey Nets Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Matthew Schuerman 38948 at http://www.observer.com You Can Take The Brooklyn Out of Freddy's ... http://www.observer.com/node/34511
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The Brewery.
... and you can probably take Freddy's out of Brooklyn, too.

The Brooklyn Papers is reporting that at 8 p.m. tonight, the owner of Freddy's, the popular Dean Street, Prospect Heights bar, will pour its last pint of Brooklyn Lager.

The building is slated for demolition in Bruce Ratner's plans for the Nets arena and a surrounding development; it's owned outright by Mr. Ratner, so it's unlikely that without a massive change to the plans, the bar will survive.

Why the boycott? The Brooklyn Brewery is supporting the Ratner plan; they've got a big account with the developer out at the Nets arena. And at the new one, there are likely to be more Brooklyn drinkers than are likely to show up at one of Freddy's popular Adult Spelling Bees. (Actually, that's not a small number. Also in the backroom at Freddy's, there are great live performances. And the place is also home to a bit of a local literary scene.)

Anyway: At Freddy's, you'll get Labatt's Blue now instead of Brooklyn. Ugh.

The bar owner and the brewer kind of slap each other around in the Brooklyn Papers piece.

- Tom McGeveran]]> http://www.observer.com/node/34511#comments Real Estate Brooklyn Bruce Ratner New Jersey Nets The Brooklyn Brewery Corporation Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:53:51 -0400 Observer Staff 34511 at http://www.observer.com