Democracy Discarded at Coney Island

We'd heard the Town Hall meeting at Coney Island last night had been canceled because too many people showed up. Now there's a new wrinkle in the story, as reported in the Brooklyn Paper tonight: "A state senator who opposes Mayor Bloomberg’s Coney Island redevelopment plan claimed victory at the first public hearing on the proposal Monday night, boasting that he was able to shut down the meeting by busing in hundreds of people to the event."

Ratner Keeps His Tax Break

We like the Daily News' definition of "slash tax break" in their Atlantic Yards story today: Bruce Ratner gets out of paying property taxes for a mere 15 years, rather than 25 years as originally planned. Norman Oder provides annotation and analysis over at Atlantic Yards Report.

Atlantic Yards: That fence is finished.

We're way behind on this one, but the New York Post reported on Monday that the city is poised to pull $100 million in subsidies from the Forest City Ratner Atlantic Yards project. For an in-depth analysis of the article head over to No Land Grab. Subsidies or not, the work continues around the Yards.