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April 29, 2008
Atlantic Yards
From Relinq Wish
I like this photo a lot. It's hard to find wide open spaces in the city these days, especially a vast open blue sky and a plane in the middle of it. Of course, if you pan down a little more you would see the semi-bearable chaos of the street below. But this picture captures the rare silent and pure moments which are few and far between in the daily norm of hysteria.
NoLandGrab: This is the westerly view over the Vanderbilt Railyards, over which the "Atlantic Yards" project will be built. The Newswalk building is to the left — it's not under threat of demolition, since it was initially carved out of the footprint of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards plan.
Though some Atlantic Yards supporters may scoff at those who decry the loss of "vast open blue sky," it's the one resource that belongs to everyone.
UPDATE: It appears that this photo was actually taken by local photographer TRACY COLLINS who uploaded it to flickr on April 8, 2007, a year before Relinq Wish posted the same shot to her own flickr account. What are the chances Relinq Wish will relinquish the photo credit?
Posted by lumi at April 29, 2008 5:09 AM