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December 17, 2008
It Came from the Blogosphere...
Curbed, Gehry Lays Off Atlantic Yards Staff, Finances Suck Even More
The news about Atlantic Yards keeps coming and none of it--not a single, solitary shred of it--is good.
Brownstoner, Credit Crunch Hits Gehry's Office
After Ratner told Gehry to put his pencils (or balls of crumpled paper) down, he laid off two dozen workers, reports the WSJ.
The Cleveland Leader, How Community Activists Treat Forest City Elsewhere
There appear to be some typos in this post, but we gather that their point is that Forest City Enterprises gets something of a free pass in its home city of Cleveland, OH.
Noticing New York, Time to Times; Dear, Dear, Dear
Micheal D.D. White wonders when he might hear back from The Times.
This therefore seemed like an opportune time for us to continue with our series of letters about Atlantic Yards written to politicians and people of influence. In this post we publish the May 10, 2007 letter we wrote to the Times Public Editor, Clark Hoyt. We arranged for that letter to be on his desk the day he started his job as the Times new public editor.
Nets Daily, Brooklyn Project Slows Further: Architect is Told to Hold Off
As much as we now loathe the Nets because of their starring role as Bruce Ratner's Trojan Horse, we do feel for their dedicated fans.
Gothamist, Atlantic Yards Project Falling Apart, Gehry Fires Staff
Late last month, architect Frank Gehry dismissed more than two dozen staffers working on designs for the embattled Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, the Wall Street Journal reports. The terminations came despite the fact that most of the proposed $4.2 billion project—which would include a Nets basketball arena, office towers and thousands of apartments—has not been designed, as Develop Don't Destroy points out.
Posted by eric at December 17, 2008 1:43 PM