Eric McClure got to 19,268 blog posts. Enough. It was time, he decided, “to hang up my keyboard.”

Eight years ago, after having sold an advertising business, he joined the convulsive battle over what would fall and what would rise on a plot of land in the heart of Brooklyn, 15 blocks from where he lived. Now he was spent. As the final editor on the nolandgrab.org blog (succeeding his wife), he halted daily posts on Sept. 29, to start sifting for the next chapter in his life.

Neglected home projects summoned his attention. Mr. McClure began refinishing his front door. He painted a bathroom.

He finds he can wake up in the morning without his first thought being Atlantic Yards.

From its initial stirrings in 2003, the huge Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn evolved into something of a reluctant career for a panoply of passionate opponents, not all of them aligned and with uniform priorities, but who saw democracy being trampled in the interest of a developer whose methodology they found offensive. It has been a clenched battle in which eminent domain was used to gobble up homes and transform a neighborhood.

It has gone on and on and on.

Normal rhythms were put on what approached permanent pause. Opponents contributing their time invested 20, 40, 80 hours a week to the cause. As eons passed, they outlasted some of the paid employees who labored on the project for the developer and the government.