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February 21, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
Daily Intelligencer, Bruce Ratner Swings His Ball
Depending on your point of view, this is either an uplifting bit of symbolism or the rough equivalent of Bambi's mother getting shot by hunters.
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The first of today's several (by 9:05 a.m.) Daniel Goldstein press releases condemns "premature … demolition of one building for the developer's 'Atlantic Yards' project in Prospect Heights and Park Slope, Brooklyn." Goldstein, of course, is indulging in a bit of rezoning himself: It takes a certain stretch of imagination to place Atlantic Yards in Park Slope.
NoLandGrab: Sorry "Intelligencer," check your intel — the western portion of the project has its own military-ops-like code name, "Site V," and it IS in Park Slope.
Curbed.com, First Wrecking Ball to be Swung at Atlantic Yards
The one website who would rather be snarky than relevant quipped:
In what is surely the most dramatic Tuesday in Brooklyn since, like, Junior's ran out of strawberry cheesecake or something, preliminary work on the Atlantic Yards megadevelopment is scheduled to kick off today.
Brownstoner, Wrecking Ball Gets Rolling on Atlantic Yards
Brooklyn Record, One Restaurant To Survive AY Demolition
Gothamist, Atlantic Yards Construction to Start...But Should It?
The Gowanus Lounge, Ratner Starts Prep Work for Atlantic Yards
Daily Intelligencer, Atlantic Yards Begins Not With a Bang But With a Bulldozer in a Snowy Lot
Fischler.org, Forward march at the Atlantic Yards
Really, I’m trying to look on the bright side here….
Posted by lumi at February 21, 2007 7:32 AM