The Brian Lehrer Show

A view of the proposed Atlantic Yards High Rise Arena project. (Gehry Partners)

Can’t See the Forest

Monday, May 15, 2006

Forest City Ratner VP Jim Stuckey says architect Frank Gehry’s new slightly scaled-down plans for the Atlantic Yards arena development in Brooklyn make it a better fit in the neighborhood. Daniel Goldstein, a spokesman for Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, which opposes the project, disagrees. Plus: Monday Morning Politics, the editors of a new literary arts and politics journal on American writing today and the Part D deadline.

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Monday Morning Politics

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, blogger and co-author,
and
Jerome Armstrong, blogger and co-author, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics (Chelsea Green Publishing)

» Daily Kos.com
» MyDD.com

n Print

Keith Gessen, co-founding editor of literary and political journal n+1 and contributor to New York magazine and New York Review of Books
and
Mark Greif co-founding editor of the literary journal n+1 and frequent contributor to American Prospect
- on the state of American writing, New York intellectuals and running a literary journal

» n+1
» Panel discussion at the Kitchen

Crossing Atlantic

Jim Stuckey, president of the Atlantic Yards project
- on the development plans for the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn
and
Daniel Goldstein, spokesperson, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
- thinks the development plans are too out of scale for the neighborhood

» Forest City Ratner
» Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn

Down to the Wire

Robert Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center
- on picking a prescription drug benefit plan before tonight's deadline
» Medicare Rights Center
» Medicare