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August 25, 2006

Brooklyn, 2016

Rendering-B4-n-afterNewswal.jpgBrooklyn Papers
By Gersh Kuntzman

Here’s what the area around Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development will look like if the 16-tower, arena, residential, office and hotel complex is built, according to new renderings created by a Brooklyn photographer.

“I was bothered by the fact that Ratner’s renderings make the impact look less because the photos were from so far away,” said the photographer, Jonathan Barkey, a Brooklyn Heights resident.

“But when you show his plans in the proper context, you see how colossal it is.”
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Barkey said all his photo illustrations were compiled using the density and bulk figures in the state’s draft environmental impact statement.

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Posted by lumi at August 25, 2006 8:49 AM