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December 4, 2008
487-489 Dean Street demolished
Photographer Tracy Collins just uploaded these two photos of 487 and 489 Dean Street, which were just demolished and swept clean by developer Bruce Ratner.
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Usually urban vacant lots are strewn with litter and fearless weeds. There's something eerie about a freshly vacant lot — unlike a newly plowed field, this land seems barren and without promise since developer Bruce Ratner just suspended construction operations in the train yard.
Collins titled this next photo, "remnant of 489 Dean." The ghostly remanant is all that is left to speak for the house that once stood there.
It's hard not to feel a little sad and cynical, especially since Ratner could have easily saved these buildings, which were, until very recently, viable housing.
Posted by lumi at December 4, 2008 6:41 PM