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November 17, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
Curbed, Final Atlantic Yards Document Released, Partly Digested
If the mere mention of Atlantic Yards makes peoples' heads spin, imagine the ruckus in the comments section when NYC's snarkiest real estate blog posts a news roundup.
Bay Ridge Blog, Lets Build Atlantic Yards
A Brooklyn blogger forgets about the parts of the project that will be built on peoples' homes when he declares his love for Atlantic Yards. [Curiously no one ever suggests moving the project to their own neighborhood.]
Except for some in the immediate neighborhood, most Brooklynites I know are very strongly in favor of the Atlantic Yards project.
This project would be built over the Long Island Rail Road tracks. It would replace a barren spot with residential, office and retail development. It would also bring a new indoor arena to the area, and an NBA team, the Nets, to play in it.
The Gowanus Lounge, Atlantic Yards Final Impact Statement Release Roundup
GL is chewing the cud before ruminating on the latest Atlantic Yards news -- in the meantime blogger Robert Guskind threw up a bunch of links and pull quotes for readers to get an overview of the coverage.
Left Behinds, After a while, you run out of ways to say "the fix is in"
The headline says it all along with this additional warning:
Once it's in it's hardly ever taken back out again.
Gothamist, Design Roundup, Final Exit Edition
Atlantic Yards headlines yesterday's local architecture-news roundup, including the image of Jonathan Barkey's rendering of the project looming over the Dean St. playground.
Guy2K, wasn’t yesterday’s post enough for you greedy bastards?
The news of The Don's plans to build a high-rise hotel in the W. Villiage gets him lumped into the same group as our own beloved uberdeveloper, Bruce Ratner. And it looks like things aren't getting any better:
OK, I don’t know about the sandwich, but I do know that, be it this Trump scam, or an “undulating glass tower” smack in the middle of the West Village, or the destruction of a gothic revival stable on the Upper West Side, or the demolition of a late arts-and-crafts garage in SoHo, or a wholly unacceptable boondoggle over at the Atlantic Yards site, developers have been allowed to pretty much make up the rules as they go, destroy the old and build the new without any respect for the people that currently live and work in the city, transform neighborhoods to meet their own megalomaniacal needs, and so, make money hand over fist.
And the more money that developers get to make, the more they have to shower on the politicians and bureaucrats that help them. It’s a vicious, ego-driven, greed-filled cycle that seems to be accelerating with each passing year.
Posted by lumi at November 17, 2006 7:23 AM