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August 23, 2008
On Teasing Walls, Traces of Roasters Past
NY Times
JAMES ANGELOS
NoLandGrab: The tantalizing title of this article at first got us excited that the Times had picked up the walls story from FoGazy...but no dice:
Another sign, which occupies nearly the width of a wall of an apartment house at 540 Vanderbilt Avenue — the Hot Bird Building, as some call it — sits in the path of the Atlantic Yards project, a planned 22-acre development that will include housing, office space and a basketball arena. A photograph of the building, with demolition equipment in the foreground, titled “Hot Bird’s Last Stand,” was featured this summer at the Brooklyn Museum in “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”The signs tend to inspire a tongue-in-cheek admiration for Hot Bird’s glory days.
“Not a day goes by that I don’t regret missing the era of Hot Bird in Brooklyn,” one contributor to a Prospect Heights Web site confessed.
Posted by amy at August 23, 2008 8:46 AM