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Yesterday, people critical of developer Bruce Ratner's massive, billion dollar Atlantic Yards project held the Third Annual Walk Don't Destroy Walkathon. And leading opponent Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn held a press conference asking a new question that goes beyond eminent domain and the size and scale of the plan. Now the question is whether the Atlantic Yards will be safe from a terror risk.

It's a mixed bag for Columbia today. The school was probably happy to find out that it ranked 9th in U.S News & World Report's latest top college ranking issues, but it's no fun to learn that its billion-dollar Manhattanville project was rejected by a community board committee.

after Freedom of Information Act requests.

happen today and that Silver may, in fact, okay the massive $4 billion project as long as Governor Pataki "doesn't tie it to other projects," according to NY1.

Well, that didn't take long. Two days after Frank Gehry's new designs for the Atlantic Yards were released comes word from the Daily News that even some of Ratner's supporters, like Assemblyman Roger Green, are now pushing for further reductions to Brooklyn's instant skyline.