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December 10, 2006
Times Magazine suggests AY a city project & done deal
Atlantic Yards Report found just a few things wrong with the Times' 'Big Urbanism' article:
The City Planning Commission (CPC) couldn't approve anything, because Atlantic Yards is a state project. The commission of course endorsed the project, because they work for Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and Bloomberg loves AY. Many of the CPC's "recommendations" had been agreed to months earlier by developer Forest City Ratner. And the project Design Guidelines were primarily the work of architect Frank Gehry.
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I called in a correction at about 10:15 p.m. last night, but it didn't make it into the paper. It's curious, and disturbing, that no one on the Times's staff who on Saturday could have read both the Magazine and the daily paper's most recent coverage of the state project concluded that a correction would be in order.
Posted by amy at December 10, 2006 1:26 PM