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December 4, 2007
Brooklyn’s Neverending Story: The Debate over Atlantic Yards Continues with Concerns Over Security
Nets Fan in New York sends naysayers back to "Pleasantville" and takes his best shot at politicians and residents who have called for an independent security analysis for Atlantic Yards:
The Hearst Corporation’s new 46-story headquarters in Manhattan boasts over one mile of glass office fronts. Yet, this building, with its reinforced blast-resistant glass, is being praised as a new “green” wonder with its use of natural light and sensor-control lighting.
It’s all a matter of how you spin it. Positive preventive security checks and proper planning are important, but using talks of terrorism to create a heightened sense of panic among residents does not encourage healthy discussion. Are we supposed to embrace a no building buildings policy in the 21st century? This recent argument is as transparent as Gehry’s glass-clad arena. With this neverending wave of debate, the AY development project remains in a perpetual state of suspension. With any luck, the Nets will move into their new arena by 2020.
NoLandGrab: This still doesn't answer the question of how the NYPD proposes to protect the arena block, which includes four high-rise towers, without having to close streets, or, as an NYPD spokesperson claimed, not even having to use bollards (unless the high-rise towers ARE BOLLARDS???).
Posted by lumi at December 4, 2007 4:32 AM