Brooklyn Development: Atlantic Yards' Last Holdout Gets Monster Settlement

http://www.housingwatch.com/2010/04/22/brooklyn-development-atlantic-yards-last-holdout-gets-monster/

Daniel Goldstein's apartment has appreciated in value by more than just about any other in his Prospect Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood. He bought it for $590,000 in 2003. Seven years later, he'll get $3 million to move out.

Goldstein has been the most vociferous opponent to Atlantic Yards, a massive infill development project that used eminent domain to reclaim several buildings. He was the last holdout, the lone tenant in his building after every other was bought out by the developer, Forest City Ratner....

he initially was offered $510,000 by the state to leave.

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The New York Times and Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards
http://www.dddb.net/php/reading/times/

-- Why didn't the Times Magazine disclose the parent company's ties to Bruce Ratner in a Q&A with the developer, and why didn't the Magazine heed the subsequent admonition from the paper's Public Editor that those ties should be disclosed?