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November 14, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
Two blogs covered the n+1 case for Atlantic Yards [NLG got in our shots last week.]
Daily Intelligencer, The Highbrow Case for Atlantic Yards
Was it possible, then, to be a pro-Yards guilty intellectual? Yes! Acceptance is just another twist of pretzel logic away, as demonstrated by the contrarian post-ironists at n+1. The stadium, writes Jonathan Liu, is a great idea precisely because it's all wrong for the borough.
Gawker, Literary Magazine Waxes Poetic About Atlantic Yards
"The authenticity of a place as volatile and heterodox as Brooklyn, and New York in general, lies in incongruity, the disorienting juxtaposition of century-old brownstones and Gehry's warped, twisting towers." Purty-soundin', yes, but all the grad-school adjectives in the world won't sell us on the desirability of a massive new development that can't be supported by the neighborhood's infrastructure.
The Real Estate Observer, Voters Pan Arena Subsidies
REO points to Michael O'Keeffe's column in this weekend's Daily News for a good anti-multi-million-dollar-subsidies-for-rich-team-owners-slash-overdevelopers rant.
Brownstoner, Making Atlantic Yards a Black-and-White Issue
The map that ran with the Atlantic Yards article in yesterday's Times was pretty neat. Not that the results were particularly surprising (they were about what you'd expect) but it was particularly interesting for us to see that Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, which get so much press for being so racially mixed are still predominantly black on a pure numbers basis. As for the article, it wasn't much fun being reminded of the appalling amount of race-baiting that's gone on in battle for the hearts and minds of Brooklyn residents over the Atlantic Yards issue.
Gumby Fresh, Welcome To Brooklyn, Ya Limey Fruits
An anti-Markowitz rant gets in some pot shots on Atlantic Yards and offers her Majesty's subjects a real tour of Brooklyn.
Posted by lumi at November 14, 2006 6:50 AM