The nearly football field-size property across the street from the under-construction Barclays Center in Brooklyn may soon become a large party space, and the chief beneficiary is one of the early opponents of the project, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The property, on Pacific Street just across Flatbush Avenue from the Barclays Center, is being marketed online as “perfect for ‘Dave and Busters’ type” entertainment (although Dave and Busters appears off the list) by owner Henry Weinstein, a former foe of the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards development. [more]

Atlantic Yards property owner Henry Weinstein, who lost his six-story Pacific Street office building last month to eminent domain, has evicted his tenant, developer Shaya Boymelgreen, for allegedly selling his lease to Bruce Ratner and failing to pay rent. Weinstein arrived at the building yesterday morning with sheriff’s deputies and had a locksmith use a crowbar to break open the door. Some 20 Boymelgreen employees and subtenants filed out before Weinstein padlocked the doors. State officials said that while they did not plan to intervene, Weinstein technically had no right to evict tenants, as the state took title to the building March 1. [NYDN]

Developer Shaya Boymelgreen was hit with a five-day eviction notice
yesterday at his headquarters at 752 Pacific Avenue in Brooklyn after
a series of legal troubles with his landlord Harry Weinstein. Although
he was scheduled for eviction last year, the process was stalled
after two companies claimed to be subleasing space from the developer
and tried to push him into Chapter 7 bankruptcy. But a U.S. Bankruptcy judge ruled Dec. 11 that the eviction could proceed and
Boymelgreen was given the notice yesterday. This development is the
latest in a series of financial troubles for the embattled Boymelgreen,
who most recently failed to meet the Nov. 30 deadline to raise enough
cash to save LibertyPointe Bank, a financial institution which he
co-founded four years ago.

A tenant claiming to sublease space in Shaya Boymelgreen’s Prospect Heights office has filed a petition to push two of the embroiled developer’s companies to Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to Crain’s. The alleged subletter, 752 Pacific Street Corp., says that Boymelgreen pledged to give it $252,000 if he broke its lease early. But now the company says that with Boymelgreen unable to meet his pledge, it has been forced to take legal action. The building’s landlord, Henry Weinstein, believes 752 Pacific Street Corp.’s claims are false. “Boymelgreen never gave us any indication of subtenants,” Weinstein said. “We just assume this is some kind of fraud.”