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March 29, 2008
It Came from the Blogosphere...
Who Walk In Brooklyn, Death In Gowanus: Electric Switchboard Co. RIP
WWIB mourns the coming death of one of their "favorite buildings in all of Gowanus: Electric Switchboard Co" and makes the connection between Gowanus developer Marc Freud and Atlantic Yards, as well as heaping praise on Atlantic Yards Report.
Seriously tho’, Norm’s has been on fire lately, hilariously busting the Daily News, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle manque & the unbelievably naive (or just plain dopey) yokels at ACORN, who were played so hard by Bruce Ratner but they won’t stop singing that tune for fear of admitting they were wrong from the start: oops upside your head indeed.
CultureGrrl, Brooklyn/Murakami/Vuitton: It Keeps Getting Worse
CultureGrrl connects The Brooklyn Museum, a French luxury fashion and leather goods brand, Kanye West, Rudy Giuliani, the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Frank Gehry, and of course, Bruce Ratner. Phew...
The honoree of Brooklyn Ball is real estate developer Bruce Ratner, whose company, Forest City Ratner, was just taken to task by the NY Times architecture critic for "a betrayal of public trust" in planning (for economic reasons) to downsize Frank Gehry's "bold ensemble of buildings" for Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards---a move that Ouroussoff declared would "only confirm our darkest suspicions about the cynical calculations underlying New York real estate deals." Isn't he the same guy who's taking the N.J. Nets out of my home state?
New Penn Station, Listen to MAS President Kent Barwick on WNYC
Today on WNYC’s Morning Edition, MAS President Kent Barwick described the public benefit of Moynihan Station and suggested that the State should consider using its powers of eminent domain to take the Garden's property. From WNYC:“The state has been willing to use its powers to take land for Bruce Ratner in Brooklyn to do Atlantic Yards or to take land in Morningside Heights away from private property owners to give to Columbia. Those are arguable public benefits, but there’s no question about the public benefit of having a great new rail station. This is the most important project in New York and is the single most important step in getting the West Side developed which we need for the future of the city. And so the public benefit is clear and ultimately if the private property owners who everyone has been trying to deal with for years can’t be brought into a realistic arrangement then the state should consider using its powers to take the property.”
Posted by amy at March 29, 2008 9:46 AM