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July 23, 2006

Is Atlantic Yards right for Brooklyn? No

Ronald Shiffman
Daily News

The Atlantic Yards proposal is bad for Brooklyn and for every other community in the state. It codifies cronyism and places it above participatory and fair-minded planning.

When you strip away the rhetoric, this project is nothing but a 1960s megablock development dressed in a trendy sculptural façade by a star architect. It fails to weave together the communities that adjoin it, dramatically aggravates traffic and consumes open space. Atlantic Yards will cast a real and metaphoric shadow over its adjoining neighborhoods.

But it's in two areas that the proposal is particularly dangerous: its broken promises on housing and the public process the developers have wantonly ignored.

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Posted by amy at July 23, 2006 12:07 PM