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Journalist Norman Oder has written about the Atlantic Yards development -- and other urban issues -- in his watchdog Atlantic Yards Report blog since 2006 and is now working on a book about Atlantic Yards. Until late 2010, he spent 14 years as an editor at the magazine Library Journal. In 2000, he began operating a tour guide business specializing in Brooklyn, New York Like a Native. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Lifespan of a (Brooklyn) Fact: Can One in Seven Americans Trace Roots to Brooklyn?
by Norman Oder • Aug 8 2012
Can one in seven Americans really trace their roots to Brooklyn? It’s a decades-old factoid too tantalizing to ignore, too...
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Atlantic Yards Watch: Tracking Daily Impacts
by Norman Oder • Aug 1 2011
In April 2006, recognizing how blogs had sprung up in response to the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, The New York...
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A Caution on Hong Kong Envy
by Norman Oder • Aug 10 2010
UPDATE, 8.21.2010: please see the comments for an important clarification from the author. In his “A Country of Cities“ series on...
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