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February 2, 2007
Gehry to unveil new Miss Bklyn - She’s shorter, but still the star of the show, he says
Courier-Life Publications
Originally, “Miss Brooklyn” was a mammoth 600-foot, 60-story structure at the Flatbush/Atlantic Avenue intersection, dwarfing the borough’s current tallest building – the Williamsburgh Bank Building at 512 feet high and 34 stories.
“Miss Brooklyn – she’s gone. She’s a new one now. I have a new Miss Brooklyn. I haven’t showed it yet and she’s better,” said Gehry, one of the world’s pre-eminent architects.
Gehry explains the genesis of "Miss Brooklyn:"
“Miss Brooklyn got named when one of my guys was bringing the model from LA to New York and they had to buy a seat on the airplane, and when they sold the seat they needed a name so he said, ‘call her Miss Brooklyn’ and it stuck,” said Gehry.
Gehry also took umbrage to critics who charge the Atlantic Yards project is the “Manhattanization of Brooklyn.”
“It will be the Brooklynization of Brooklyn not the Manhattanization."
NoLandGrab: Groan... now Brooklyn is a vicitm of a bad inside joke.
Posted by lumi at February 2, 2007 8:29 AM