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August 16, 2007
A Chat with Tracy Collins
Brit in Brooklyn interviews photographer Tracy Collins, who started photographing in and around the Atlantic Yards footprint and ended up publishing a book, which is for sale online with all profits going to Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn.
Q. How much did you know about Atlantic Yards when you came here?
A. Almost nothing. I heard rumours. After I bought my place, I thought it might be nice to walk to a pro basketball game, and to see something other than the rail yards: shops, restaurants, open space. So initially I was pro-Atlantic Yards. Once I learned more about what was actually planned, I felt it was way out of scale for the area. And I wasn't happy about the process in which it’s been pushed forward. I’m against the use of eminent domain.
Posted by lumi at August 16, 2007 10:39 AM