Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards Project Stalls, Frank Gehry Forced to Lay Off Entire Design Staff

Back in April, you might remember that a bevy of Brooklynites took to the streets to protest Bruce Ratner‘s plans to redevelop big swaths of Brooklyn with the help of Frank Gehry at the design wheel. While those efforts didn’t really have much effect on the construction plans, who could have guessed that the economy would have swung the way of the protesters and done their bidding for them? So it has happened, as it’s been revealed that Ratner put the breaks on the massive Atlantic

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