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January 31, 2008
AY "on rail yards"? Error recurs in the Times
Atlantic Yards Report
The New York Times, which appears to suffer from some rare learning disability, yet again repeats one of Norman Oder's (and our) pet peeves:
From an article in today's New York Times, headlined Scaffold Falls, Killing Worker in Brooklyn:
It is in a section of Brooklyn that is being swept up in new development, with the huge Atlantic Yards entertainment, residential and commercial complex planned on rail yards a few blocks to the west.
(Emphasis added)I thought we'd resolved that the 22-acre project would be built only in part over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 8.5-acre Vanderbilt Yard. After all, when the Times had a beat reporter assigned to Atlantic Yards, he wrote that the project "would rise over a railyard and adjacent land...."
Posted by eric at January 31, 2008 9:04 AM