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May 31, 2006
Crown of thorns
Sean Elder's Blog
A freelance writer and editor takes issue with and pokes some holes in Alexandra Lange's New York Magazine article heralding the coming of the Ratner-Gehry Atlantic Yards:
"We don't want to build tall for the sake of tall," she quotes Ratner mouthpiece Jim Stuckey saying. "Frank Gehry can frame the Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower”—the current tallest, at 512 feet, compared with the 620 feet of Gehry’s main tower, Miss Brooklyn—“and make it a postcard with other buildings around it.”
You read that right: a postcard. As in, Wish you were here? No wonder the arrogant Gehry, who says those protesting the development should be protesting Henry Ford for inventing the automobile, is calling his crowned jewel, the building around the proposed arena, Miss Brooklyn. You'll miss Brooklyn, too, when these carpetbaggers get done with it.
It's a pity that Lange, who is presumably a reporter, could not have found an actual opponent to the project to quote.
Posted by lumi at May 31, 2006 7:53 AM