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June 18, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
Gumby Fresh, This Is Young Calgarians
While I'm talking about cultural institutions for a moment, could I just issue this plea to the Municipal Arts Society to stop bringing the spam to concerned Prospect Heights/Park Slope residents. For some reason, signing up to the Brooklyn Speaks campaign, this whole misguided "maybe if we adopt more nuanced tones in criticizing the Atlantic Yards project they'll scale it back or make it less ass-ugly" campaign has been read by the MAS as consent to be added to its mailing list for all of its non-Atlantic Yards verbiage.
Joshing Politics, NYC Lets Developers Get Away With Anything
Atlantic Yards is the posterproject for local government run amok:
The horror story of the Atlantic Yards project consistently makes the local news and blog scene. Yet AY is one huge example of a city-wide problem where developers are consistently favored over residents.
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, NOT A WALK IN THE PARK: MARTY AND THE ATLANTIC YARDS
A Marty sighting leads to some reflection about how the Brooklyn Borough President's relationship with the Borough has changed:
He used to be Brooklyn's best cheerleader. He never missed an event, a chance to add his wacky enthusiasm to a PTA meeting, a middle school graduation, Little League Day in the Prospect Park or the Brooklyn Pride parade.
The Atlantic Yards changed all that.
Stuck in His Head, Take that, Gehry!
Frank Gehry's Atlantic Yards has become the project against which all other un-neighborly projects are measured:
In which Julian Schnabel proves that there are ideas "worse" than the Atlantic Yards project and his neighbors freak the fuck out.
BushwickBK.com, The Brooklyn Paper Embraces Organic
Atlantic Yards gets an honorable mention for what it's not:
Organic development, that is. I’m not so sure many of the people opposed to the Atlantic Yards project would be the staunch foes of eminent domain that they are without the kick in the pants a cluster of giant taxpayer-funded shadowcasting skyscrapers provides.
Posted by lumi at June 18, 2007 8:56 AM