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March 6, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
I'm Seeing Green, NO to DOT's One-Way Street Proposal
What are the implications, when NYC Department of Transportation is more concerned with making Brooklyn work for Atlantic Yards, than making Atlantic Yards work for Brooklyn?
Now comes the NY DOT with a proposal that 7th and 6th Avenues be made one way. This is so counter to what our needs are that it beggars belief. If anything, the multi-lane one-way streets like 8th Ave and Prospect Park West should be converted to two way.
While cities around the world are exploring and implementing traffic calming and traffic mitigating methodology, we seem to be rushing the other way in New York. It's wrong.
Periodismo veraz, objetivo, y credibilidad..., Preparan terreno
Translation of yesterday's news on NY1/Traducción de las noticias de ayer en NY1:
Se prepara la demolición de una docena de edificios en Downtown Brooklyn, para darle espacio al proyecto urbanístico Atlantic Yards.
Un plan que ha venido acompañado de polémica, y que incluye un nuevo estadio de baloncesto para los Nets.
CORRECIÓN: ¡El proyecto "Atlantic Yards" no está en Downtown Brooklyn, está en Prospect Heights!
Don't Worry It's Just Reality: Brooklyn Edition, Why Atlantic Yards is Good...
...for Bruce Ratner.
Those of us opposed to this project have been positively baffled - how could so poor a design that goes against every established urban planning principle and essentially revives the failures of the 1960s....be seriously considered by the ESDC/Gagano/Ratner/Scumb -oops- Markowitz...?
Pardon Me for Asking, Recent Great Reads
Before the March 9th opening of the movie "The Namesake" which is based on Jhumpa Lahiri's book of the same name, I urge everyone to read the original.
Yes, I may be partial to Lahiri . Not only is she a fellow Brooklyn resident, she is also an active opponent of the Atlantic Yards project (see below) and a Barnard Graduate. Most importantly, her writing is achingly beautiful.
Censur.net, Brooklyn library under fire for truncating exhibit—is it censorship?
The National Coalition Against Censorship, an alliance that includes, among some 50 organizational members, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, and People for the American Way, has criticized the Brooklyn Public Library for censoring an exhibition of art related to a highly controversial local development known as Atlantic Yards. (Source: Library Journal News)
The Media Mob, Times Tower Gets First Retail Tenant: MUJI Flagship!
The lease for the New York Times Building was pretty specific about keeping out downmarket chain stores. So it's no surprise that the first retail tenant to sign up is MUJI, an "environmentally conscious retailer based in Japan," whose products can be picked up in the MoMA Design Store.
Historic Districts Council Newsstand, ALERT: Stop Forest City Ratner from Demolishing the Ward Building
HDC posted Ron Shiffman's call to sign the Save Ward Bakery petition.
Despite what you mat have read the fight to stop and revise Forest City Ratner's proposals for the Vanderbilt Yards [aka Atlantic Yards] is far from over. A number of law suits have yet to be decided and the federal law suit will be heard by the Judge and a decision of whether it will stay in federal court or shift to the state court will be made next month. Other cases will be filed as well. Let's ask our elected officials to do the responsible thing for a change and keep FCR from further harming our community by demolishing these beautiful buildings.
OneHansonPlace.com, Boerum Heights sold out!!!
In what could be the Brooklyn real estate surprise of the year, this project, which abuts the Atlantic Yards project, has completely sold out its' 120 (estimated) units. Whodathunkit?
Posted by lumi at March 6, 2007 10:23 AM