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May 29, 2006
Downtown Brooklyn in 2016
Brooklyn (like it or not) will get a shimmering Frank Gehry Crown.
The New York Magazine annual real estate edition is devoted to the big changes planned for NYC under the Bloomberg-Doctoroff Doctrine, and heralds the coming of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards, whether you like it or not:
What’s in a name? In projecting the future of the intersection of Atlantic, Flatbush, and Fourth Avenues, what you call the area means a lot. Call it Atlantic Yards, as developer Forest City Ratner does, and you see a march—or perhaps a fashion show—of sixteen towers in glass, metal, and brick marching down Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, supplanting Grand Army Plaza’s arch as the gateway to the 21st-century borough. This name pulls Downtown Brooklyn to the heart of the brownstone belt, attracting tenants who want to look at, but not necessarily touch, the old Brooklyn at their feet.
And whether Bruce Ratner likes it or not, Atlantic Yards Report has a play-by-play commentary on the article.
New York Magazine, in a feature headlined Building the (New) New York: The Bob and Jane way, takes a look at the city in 2016, and pronounces the projected result a mix of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. A segment on the Atlantic Yards project is odd; on the one hand, it assumes that the project would be completed on time as currently scheduled (despite past delays and likely litigation) and would be located in Downtown Brooklyn; on the other, it muses about a scaleback plan (uncredited) that could be far more dramatic than than anything proposed so far.
Posted by lumi at May 29, 2006 8:18 PM