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July 21, 2006
Gargano to B’klyn: Get big
The Brooklyn Papers, editorial
The Manhattanization of Brooklyn is now official state policy. That’s what Empire State Development Corporation Chairman Charles Gargano said this week, as his agency released a disheartening draft environmental impact statement for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project.
The 2,000 pages of detailed analysis shows that the development is out of scale with its neighbors, would enshroud large areas in shadows, would tax an already-overburdened traffic and transit system, would create an intimidating superblock, and would require the city to spend untold millions to build schools, provide for more cops and add fire service.
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From his Albany aerie, Charles Gargano has decided that the very thing that makes Brooklyn unique — its neighborhood scale — is the very thing that must change.
The editorial goes on to explain how Brooklyn Bridge Estate Park fits into Gargano's "narrative" for Brooklyn and how, if built, "Atlantic Yards would be the most-densely populated Census tract in the country."
Posted by lumi at July 21, 2006 12:38 PM