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October 12, 2006
The Best Blocks: South Portland Avenue
Time Out New York
And the winner for the best block in New York is... South Portland Avenue between DeKalb and Lafayette (link).
NoLandGrab: Only, too bad that Bruce Ratner has plans to cast the block in the shadow shroud of his mammoth 22-acre 16-high-rise-and-arena wall o' buildings.
This map showing So. Portland Ave. is adapted from Chapter 9 of the DEIS, on Shadows, as modified by the So. Oxford Block Association (some readers may recall that the DEIS used "limoncello" yellow to represent the shadows; the So. Oxford St. Block Association thought that gray would be more appropriate).
Posted by lumi at October 12, 2006 7:55 AM