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August 2, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
Two bloggers who don't usually tackle Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards have posted some commentary recently. This noteworthy coincidence and the volume of comments shows that Atlantic Yards seems to be on a lot of people's minds these days:
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Is there no sin in it?, Irresponsible architecture
I don't often blog here about local problems, but the time has come for A White Bear to take a tiny little blogular stand against Frank Gehry's project in my neighborhood.
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It can't just be out of ignorance that the Times rarely mentions the overwhelming opposition to the project by pretty much all the people who live here, except to depict the various groups as extremists.Well, yeah, when you're about to plop a huge environmental and social disaster in people's backyard, they get a little extreme.
NoLandGrab: "Is there no sin in it?" and the posted commentary is evidence that more Brooklynites are understanding the negative impacts of the project. Though the blogger uses the most current $4.2-billion figure for the project cost, he mistakenly cites the figure as the total cost to the taxpayer.
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SteveBerlinJohnson.com, Jane Jacobs And Atlantic Yards
Fantastic revisiting of Jane Jacobs by Karrie Jacobs, basically arguing that the patron saint of sidewalk culture wouldn't necessarily have been appalled by the Atlantic Yards project. I agree with almost everything here -- part of the charm and dynamism of the Greenwich Village that Jacobs celebrated came out of the fact that it was framed by much larger-scale developments, in Midtown and Wall Street. There's no reason that couldn't work in Brooklyn as well, if it's done right.
NoLandGrab has a couple of small quibbles with Johnson's small quibbles, but we're leaving them in the comments section of his blog (complete with early-morning, pre-coffee typos).
Posted by lumi at August 2, 2006 8:53 AM