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October 13, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
Rocks In A Blender, change is all the rage (part 2)
Joseph, the 25-year-old Pisces, manages to sum up the main concerns about Atlantic Yards, in two paragraphs, which has to be some sort of record.
Greiner's Grumblings, Media don’t like the Yards. Do voters?
Andrew Greiner compares the $4.2-billion 16-highrise and arena Atlantic Yards project to Frank Gehry's Millennium Park amphitheater in Chicago and posits, "Is the Atlantic Yards project really the scourge that it’s made out to be."
The Real Deal, Is Gehry wasting his time in Brooklyn?
The real estate trade links Paul Goldberger's pointed criticism of Frank Gehry's design for Atlantic Yards:
The Atlantic Yards project in downtown Brooklyn is the largest project that architect Frank Gehry has ever undertaken. But it's one that some critics see as almost a waste of his talents and time.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, GOOD GEHRY, BAD GEHRY: GOLDBERGER WEIGHS IN ON THE ATLANTIC YARDS DESIGN
OTBKB says:
Everybody's talking about Paul Goldberger's piece in the New Yorker about Frank Gehry.
Bird to the North, BrooklynSpeaks
BrooklynSpeaks has Bird to the North thinking about the consortium's position, and adds some ideas of her own about open space, building setbacks and this point about the project's timeline:
Finally, it does seem that more thought has to be given to the stages of the project so that all the attendant community benefits do not come at the tail end of 10 years. Honestly, the whole project is riding on the acceptance that there are benefits, ultimately. Can't the stages be done more smartly, say in 2-year chunks, instead of in 4-year and 6-year chunks?
The Real Estate Observer, Silver Misses Moynihan Vote
The lastest news on the group that holds the cards in the approval of Atlantic Yards - the Public Authorities Control Board:
The representative for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on the Public Authorities Control Board never showed at today's emergency meeting. Without him (or her--we're searching for a name here, and Senate spokesman Mark Hansen told us, "We're not sure who he was planning on not sending to the meeting" ), there was no quorum and no vote could be taken.
Posted by lumi at October 13, 2006 10:22 PM