With their legal cases looking shaky, critics of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards are now focusing on the Nets arena's vulnerability to terrorists. At a press conference Sunday, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn distributed a flyer showing how easy it would be to wreak havoc at the glass-walled arena...and cited Newark's recent decision to close streets near the Prudential Center on Devils' home dates. New York officials have dismissed the possibility.
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