Add Megan McArdle to the (rather short) list of people outraged by the Supreme Court's decision yesterday not to hear the eminent domain case surrounding Columbia's planned Manhattanville campus in West Harlem. On her blog over at The Atlantic, McArdle has some stern words for New York State and the Supreme Court:
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Since he launched The Atlantic Yards Report in 2006, Norman Oder has written 3,747 blog posts on the contentious Brooklyn development project. It's probably enough to fill an encyclopedia, let alone a lowly paperback.
But that is exactly what Mr. Oder is setting out to do, when he announces later today—in his 3,748th post—that he Read More
These days, Carl Paladino is talking about using eminent domain to keep an Islamic Cultural Center out of Lower Manhattan.
This stance puts him at odds with most of his Tea Party supporters, who view eminent domain as an over-reach by the government.
But as a developer, Paladino was not against using hard-ball tactics to Read More
The Paterson administration files in court to take properties in the way of the planned Nets arena. Holdouts Read More
Harlem state senator asks Paterson for moratorium on land takings, no appeal in Columbia Read More
On Wednesday, Albany will host the start of a closing chapter in the saga of Atlantic Yards, the mammoth $4.9 billion housing, office and sports arena development proposed to rise near downtown Brooklyn.
Six years since the project was first publicly announced, opponents of the plan are slated to argue their case against eminent domain Read More
ALBANY—Jordi Reyes-Montblanc, the former chairman of Community Board 9, died yesterday. He was 65.
Pat Jones, the current chairwoman of the board, announced the death in an e-mail to board members and others in the neighborhood.
Reyes-Montblanc fled Cuba for the United States to escape communism, and was a staunch advocate of property rights Read More
Now that Columbia will officially be seizing land through eminent domain, Eliot Brown wonders what "market rate" is going to look like for the remaining landowners.
Why all the fuss?
A number of the larger private development projects in the Read More
We write to share with you our absolute opposition to the current Willets Point Development Plan. The project that comes before the Department of Read More
In announcing the process, ESDC President Avi Schick unveiled two unexpected nuggets of news surrounding the Read More
Translation: the state will unveil the blight study, the first step in the use Read More
Earlier this month, in the brief few-day period when only one governor was embroiled in a sex scandal, Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez introduced a bill to use eminent domain to take pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s approximately 15-acre manufacturing plant site in East Williamsburg and turn it into affordable housing (he's talked about this previously). Read More
Mr. Lopez, also the chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, has been circulating a draft bill to acquire the Read More
Opponents of Atlantic Yards knew from the beginning that getting their eminent domain case to the Supreme Court was going to take a lot of motions and counter-motions, appearances and appeals. This morning, they struggled to get even the first toehold for their case by arguing in federal appeals court that they should get Read More
