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July 18, 2006
Prisoner of Atlantic Avenue
The Real Estate Observer
Former NYC Planning Commissioner Ron Shiffman issued a statment last week making this point about density:
If Forest City Ratner’s proposal proceeds at the current scale, it would constitute the densest residential community in the United States and, perhaps, Europe, with the exception of some of the suburbs of Paris.
Observer reporter Matthew Schuerman looks at the 2000 US Census figures and finds that it is all true:
The densest census tract in the country is located in West Harlem where a 1,190-unit former Mitchell-Lama building stands surrounded by numerous tenements (below). The two-block area has, according to the 2000 Census, 229,713 inhabitants per square mile.
Sounds positively suburban next to the density envisioned by Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn: between 436,363 and 523,636 inhabitants per square mile (based on estimated population of between 15,000 and 18,000 residents in 22 acres).
Read the entire post to find out how Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards Development Group President Jim Stuckey explains this one away.
Posted by lumi at July 18, 2006 9:08 PM