Brooklinks: Wednesday "What's the Impact?" Edition

Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related news stories, blog items and images. Today we offer a selective round-up of Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement coverage:

What's the Impact?

• NY Agency Gives Preliminary Thumbs Up to Ratner Plan [Reuters]
• Yards DEIS Released, Cost Reaches $4.2 Billion [AYR]
• Measuring Project's Shadow and Burden on Bklyn [NYT]
• Yards Impact 'Absurd' Critics Say [NYDN]
• Ratner's Got High Hoops [NYPost]
• State: Ratner Project Won't Raise Rents [Power Plays/V. Voice]
• Atlantic Yards Hearings Set...For When You're Out of Town [streetsblog]
• True Costs Still Unknown, Public Process Unacceptable [DDDB]
• Nothing Like a 15-Inch Thick Stack of Documents for a Rally Hangover [nolandgrab]
• Prisoner of Atlantic Avenue [The Real Estate]

Something Other Than the Stinkin' Impact

• How Not to Pay Rent (in an Illegal Apartment) [Village Voice]
• Scoop Du Jour--Today in Brooklyn [OTBKB]
  
• Disaster on Red Hook Based Cruise Ship [Brooklyn Record]
  
• Community Gardens [Gotham Gazette]
• Jacques Torres Wins Neighborhood Award [Brooklyn Record]