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September 20, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
OnNYTurf, Yankee Stadium Deal Gets Worse
The City is looking to unilaterally change its Yankee Stadium Plan "Community Benefits Agreement" to allow parking in the Stadium Garages year round. According to the original deal, the garages were to only be open on game days - 81 days a year. Community activists generally opposed the garages because children in that area of the Bronx already has some of the highest rates of asthma in the country; and government watch dogs opposed the plan because the city and state are financing the garages.
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This news reinforces that, as we have seen with the terms of the Atlantic Yards plan, Community Benefit deals are not as iron clad as Bertha Lewis would have us believe.
MissRepresentation, Easy on the lies.
A review of the latest rendering of the World Trade Center site has some wishful thinking on Atlantic Yards.
Expect to hear muddy praise from what is left of the architectural commentariat, invoking Rockefeller Center and forgetting that the last vestiges of it was the Avenue of the Americas side. Sure, hire four top notch corporate lackeys and they produce top notch corporate lackeydom. After the abortions of Hudson and Atlantic Yards (I'm still crossing my fingers for a collapse in the CMBS market that will submarine this), you would think someone in the shitty New York real estate press would up and say 'Hey, guys, is there a reason we are trying so hard to emulate Canary Wharf and La Défense?
OneHansonPlace, Rental at the Merchant House Condos on Dean/Carlton
Here's a two bedroom, two bath rental at the Merchant House Condos on Dean Street between Vanderbilt and Carlton. Last month there was a listing for sale. Perhaps owners are getting antsy about the potential Atlantic Yards project.
The Real Estate Observer, Love Among the Ruins
Daniel Goldstein, the spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, and Shabnam Merchant, the organization’s fundraiser, met while working to defeat the Atlantic Yards complex in Brooklyn, in the footprint of which they now live. They tied the knot last week. Not only that, but they got their wish to have it written up in The New York Times.
not another freakin blog, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn walking tour
Photog Tracy Collins takes a tour of his own neighborhood.
this past saturday, i took part in The Municipal Art Society (MAS) of New York's Prospect Heights walking tour.
my house is not within the area that MAS submitted for the Prospect Heights historic district designation, but would be about 1/2 block from its border if the designation goes through.
Funkypundit, What Ebbets Field Wasn't
I'm occasionally asked how a pro-growth, pro-development, free-market conservative such as myself opposes a project like the Atlantic Yards. This piece [in NY Magazine] gets to the nut it: If preserving a neighborhood's character is a priority (and for me, it is), growth cannot be imposed from the outside; it needs to come from within, to be organic, and its sponsor can't cheat, using the heavy-hand of government to steal private property to make way.
NoLandGrab: Additionally, free-market conservatives are naturally suspicious of subsidy-laden projects like Atlantic Yards, which distort the marketplace making it more difficult for developers who are not as politically connected to compete.
Posted by lumi at September 20, 2007 5:54 AM