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July 25, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
This week, Atlantic Yards only gets respect from a bunch of train geeks:
Gothamist, Gehry Seeks Multimillions for Archive
Upon hearing that starchitect and Atlantic Yards designer Frank Gehry wants to sell his archives for big bucks, one reader comments:
They should bulldoze his Santa Monica house and replace it with a to-scale papier-mâché model of his Atlantic Yards project made from all 5,000 of those drawings.
and another notes:
I don't even hate his buildings -- some of them are grand -- but fuuuck if AY isn't misguided.
Ditmas Park Blog, Flatbush Junction
A new mall gets compared to Atlantic Yards:
I think this may be one of these things, like Atlantic Yards, that will be nice to have at a certain distance, and maybe less so close up.
NoLandGrab: Most NoLandGrab readers would prefer that Atlantic Yards remained in Frank Gehry's archive.
Sub Chat, Atlantic Yard
Clearly, these guys don't get out much:
I saw in the NY Post yesterday that the city is making or doing work on a yard called the Atlantic Yard does anyone know anything???
"AIM" notes it is called "Atlantic Yards," "Terrapin Station" knows that "Atlantic Yards is certainly a real project" and that work has begun over the railyards, "Osmosis Jones" can't wait to check out a game, and checked media reports that work has started:
No it hasn't, I passed by there today and saw nothing (not even a trainset).
NoLandGrab: Prep work on the railyards has actually begun — for instance, tracks have been removed — and last week Brit in Brooklyn noted the appearance of a drill rig in preparation for excavation activities, which were announced in last month's construction update.
Duffield St. Underground, AKRF works boths sides of the fence again
Duffield St. activists continue to question the credibility of AKRF as more reports note the potential conflict of interest between clients in the Atlantic Yards saga.
Queen's Crap, Ratner's problem
"Crappy" links yesterday's NY Post article, which reported that:
The Bloomberg administration is threatening to pull more than $100 million in city subsidies from the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn unless a deal providing massive tax breaks for developer Bruce Ratner is drastically revised.
Posted by lumi at July 25, 2007 11:17 AM