Bruce Ratner's three year long effort to get the Nets on a Brooklyn basketball court suffered a setback Wednesday in a Brooklyn law court, but the Nets owner says plans to demolish buildings in preparation for the new arena continue. The court ruled that Ratner could not demolish two buildings he thought he controlled. It turned out the man who agreed to sell the properties didn't have clear title to them. Meanwhile, Ratner's parent company suggests an arena opening by 2010, not 2009.
- Landowner wins vs. Ratner - Jotham Sederstrom - New York Daily News
- Judge Rules Forest Ratner Acquired Building Illegally - Eliot Brown - New York Sun
- Court Rules Forest City Ratner Does Not Have Rights To Some Properties - NY1
- Atlantic Yards Loses Lease to Part of Site - Andy Newman - New York Times
- Demos (& Complaints) Begin - Norman Oder - Brooklyn Downtown Star
- A Cleveland Ratner offers timeline candor - Norman Oder - Atlantic Yards Report
- Ratner to appeal Atlantic Yards ruling - Matthew Scheuerman - New York Observer
- When will Atlantic Yards be done? Depends on which Ratner you ask - Dana Rubenstein - Brooklyn Paper
- NETS may stay in NJ til 2010 - John Brennan - The Record
- Atlantic Yards to take 15 years? - Patrick Arden - Metro NY