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January 30, 2007
The City That Never Walks
The NY Times Op-Ed, with additional hyperlinks via StreetsBlog
In an Op-Ed piece about the suburbanization of New York City and the current administration's surrender of city streets to the automobile, Op-Ed contributor and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Advisory Board Member Robert Sullivan takes a swipe at Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards:
The great shame of the 22-acre Atlantic Yards mega-development in Brooklyn is that it seems like something out of Atlanta in the 1990s.
Not today’s Atlanta. Today’s Atlanta is building a circular hiking, recreation and even transit trail, a little like the still unfinished Manhattan greenway.
Click here to read more about how "New York is acting more like the rest of America, and the rest of America is acting more like the once-inspiring New York."
Posted by lumi at January 30, 2007 6:49 AM