| Another lawsuit planned over NBA arena in Brooklyn
NEW YORK -- Activists trying to block construction of a new arena in Brooklyn for the NBA's New Jersey Nets plan to file a lawsuit claiming that the project underwent an inadequate environmental review.
The suit, expected to be filed Thursday, will become the third legal challenge to the Atlantic Yards megadevelopment, which would include offices, a hotel, shops and thousands of apartments in 16 new buildings designed by celebrity architect Frank Gehry.
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Central park in minds of officials
Council Member Brenda Mabe says the town needs a central area to solidify its identity, and the town soon may get it. The town council is considering buying land near town hall and making it into a park. Mabe said that that may expand into a town square. "What we're looking for is a town square. That's what we're working on," she said. "We'd like to have a park, perhaps with a walking trail with picnic tables. It's in the planning stages. We have purchased the land. We do own land beside town hall." As for the park, "I think it's very important," Mabe said. "We need an identity; we need a town park. We feel it's a need, but we need to see what the land can be used for. "We want something that can be used by town residents," she said.
Diary of the EMP pop conference
Novelist Jonathan Lethem ("The Fortress of Solitude," "Motherless Brooklyn") opened the EMP Pop Conference on Thursday night in Sky Church with an operatic, confessional sweep. He surely is the first keynote speaker to refer to the confab as a "ferschlugginer enterprise." Culled from Mad magazine, the faux-Yiddish word (meaning "wretched") felt appropriate for the gathering. In the grand tradition of rock criticism inaugurated in the '60s by Crawdaddy magazine, ogle-eyed grad (and ex-grad) students conflate — with a straight face — Sanjaya, Iggy Pop and the Beatles with Nietszche, Marx and Joyce. Lethem commanded this pop culture/high culture territory so seamlessly (perhaps too seamlessly), that if he didn't exist, EMP surely would have been forced to invent him.
Rockland AM report
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