The Real Deal New York

Developer Bruce Ratner sent a letter to around 700 residents in or around the proposed Atlantic Yards construction site in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, offering to give them air conditioners or install double-pane windows in their homes. The amenities are meant to minimize construction noise from the $4 billion project and are part of a noise-reduction requirement the state said the developer had to follow when the project was approved. Ratner says the giveaways will cost him $2 million. more [Post]