I know that many of the people pledging to our film have done so without a lot of background information on the Atlantic Yards Project.

It's kind of hard to believe, but when we started shooting, blogs were just beginning to become a part of mainstream culture. However, blogs grew to have a major impact on the story and the project. I wanted to point you to three of them as they can quickly bring you up to speed if interested.

Atlantic Yards Report was started by journalist Norman Oder as a response to what he thought was terrible coverage by the NY Times. It has grown into THE source of original reporting on the project. Last May Mr. Oder posted this primer. His reporting is much more in depth than any other coverage of the project and is now read by most journalists covering the story. Just yesterday he broke a story about the ESDC possibly floating an extra 400 million dollars in bonds for the project.

nolandgrab is currently run by Lumi Rolley, Eric Mcclure, and Steve Soblick (researching the founders right now). Each day the site compiles all of the news that touches on the story. The site has been very supportive of our kickstater efforts- and it's one of the first things I check each morning. I can't keep up with Norman Oder and they do a good job of paraphrasing his posts.
DDDB.net is the website of the primary opposition group. Like nolandgrab this site compiles news and analysis- but it also has alternative plans - and loads of important information.

With a 2 hour movie it is going to be impossible for us to cover the complexities of the story- including the imapct of the blogs. We'll be working on a very dense website that will work to include these aspects of the story. The same is true with a short blog post. I also wanted to ad Noticing New York, another blog that had done a great job of getting to the truth about the story from an ex-insder's perspective.