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March 9, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
Dope on the Slope, Atlantic Yards: The Over and Under
Speaking of Atlantic Yards, here's my prediction of the "over and under" on this project if it goes through as planned. Call me shrill, but I think this project will have the dubious honor of becoming the textbook example of how NOT to envision, plan, construct, and maintain an urban mixed-use project of unprecedented scale for decades to come. Won't it be great to have the densest residential development project in entire U.S. serving as a living laboratory for more enlightened cities to learn from?
Slope Street Cats, Saving Ratner's Cats
The group saving cats from Ratner's wrecking ball has a web site.
The Albany Project, SPRING CLEANING!! "Clean Sweep" at ESDC is Some Dirty Job
An Albany-based political watchdog blog keeps tabs on Atlantic Yards because the project is indicative of everything that's wrong with "Three Men in a Room."
Now, the first thing to realize is that the Kingpin of ESDC, aka "the Ambassador" Charlie Gargano, behaved as big rats do, and jumped ship at the first whiff of sunshine antiseptic to come. His law-school-buddy Pataki appointed him to a cushy post at the Port Authority, where he could be handy to their other law-school-buddy, the developer of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, and generally continue to extort the good people of NY (does the word "extort" seem overheated? Well, check out the facts at: http://www.villagevo...)
Yonkers Tribune, Forest City Ratner Misleads Public on Construction Timeline
It appears that there are folks in Yonkers that are as interested in what Bruce Ratner is up to in Brooklyn as we are in what he is trying to pull off in Yonkers. Today they posted Develop Don't Destroy's latest press release.
Crain's Cleveland, Never a dull moment in N.Y.
The Cleveland business press notes the excitement in N.Y. over the latest legal snafu in the Atlantic Yards fight.
Posted by lumi at March 9, 2007 10:36 AM