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August 23, 2007
BOOK REVIEW: "New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg"
Harper's Magazine
By John Leonard
More proof that "Atlantic Yards" is to "boondoggle" as Cindy Crawford is to "supermodel:"
On the eve of yet another 9/11 anniversary, NEW YORK CALLING: FROM BLACKOUT TO BLOOMBERG (Reaktion, $25) is an exacting look at the state of the city after thirty-five excruciating years of civil war. Marshall Berman, an urbanologist and literary critic, and Brian Berger, a poet and photographer, have assembled novelists, journalists, college professors, art historians, film editors, food critics, computer programmers, and jazz musicians to remember and revile all five boroughs from, roughly, the Pleistocene epoch of Ed Koch, Woody Allen, and "Son of Sam" to the Atlantic Yards real estate boondoggle.
NoLandGrab: Being in the thick of things, we hardly noticed that the fight against the "Atlantic Yards real estate boondoggle" may have quietly passed a threshold; like the legendary Westway project, win, lose or draw, Bruce Ratner's controversial project has earned its own spot in NYC history.
Posted by lumi at August 23, 2007 1:49 PM