Here's what Mayor Bloomberg had to say today about the court ruling:

STATEMENT BY MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON TODAY’S APPELLATE DIVISION RULING ON THE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF ATLANTIC YARDS PROJECT

"The Atlantic Yards project will create thousands of jobs and generate badly-needed tax revenue. The court’s unanimous affirmation today that the review and approvals processes were comprehensive and properly completed is a big step towards the start of construction."**

Here's what the court's ruling had to say about elected folks, such as the Mayor:

..."While we do not agree with petitioners' legal arguments, we understand those arguments to be made largely as proxies for very legitimate concerns as to the effect of a project of such scale upon the face and social fabric of the area in which it is to be put. Those concerns, however, have relatively little to do with the project's legality and nearly everything to do with its socio-economic and aesthetic desirability, matters upon which we may not pass. To the extent that the fate of this multi-billion dollar project remains, in an increasingly forbidding economy, a matter of social and political volition, the controlling judgments as to its merits are the province of the policy-making branches of government, not the courts."
(Emphasis added.)