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March 21, 2008
Oh, Brooklyn…
KarrieJacobs.com
The journalist, architecture critic and Metropolis contributing editor and columnist blogs on today's hot story:
Back in 2005, I wrote a Metropolis column called, "Oh, Brooklyn, My Brooklyn” in which I outlined the difficulties of being an advocate of innovative architecture when there were developers like Bruce Ratner and projects like Atlantic Yards. In that piece I concluded:
First thing in the morning I am not an architecture critic—I am a Brooklynite. And I wake up with the local’s mantra running through my head: “May the bubble burst before they get a chance to build.”
And, wouldn’t you know it? It has. This is not exactly news. The intrepid little Brooklyn Paper has been reporting for weeks that the wheels are falling off Ratner’s wagon. (Check out this story!) But now that Charles Bagli has said it in The Paper of Record, it must be true.
Posted by eric at March 21, 2008 3:24 PM