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NEW YORK (AP) - A federal magistrate recommended tossing out a lawsuit meant to block New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner's $4 billion Atlantic Yards project — dealing a blow Friday to a group of Brooklyn property owners and tenants facing eviction.
While a U.S. district judge still has final say on whether the suit survives, magistrates' recommendations seldom rejected.
The size of the project — a megadevelopment of 16 skyscrapers and an 18,000-seat arena — has dismayed thousands of Brooklyn residents who worry that it would overwhelm existing neighborhoods and give too many concessions to Ratner.
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