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January 3, 2009

Curbed Awards '08: The Neighborhoods, In Glorious Detail!

Curbed

Atlantic Yards makes two appearances on the awards list:

I. PRESERVATION AND EXPANSION

Lost Neighborhood Landmarks of the Year

3) Ward Bakery. Though the Coney faithful rightly bemoan the depressing destructoporn that engulfed Astroland as the year wound down, the total destruction of Ward Bakery in the Atlantic Yards footprint saddened us more profoundly, probably because the place will remain an empty lot for the next few eons.

III. THERE GOES THE...

Massive Projects At Massive Risk Award

1) Atlantic Yards/Hudson Yards. We sort of always knew, given all the hype and press and controversy and weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding our twin yards, that neither one of these projects would ever happen in their proposed form. Predictions for 2009: Hudson Yards disappears from the public agenda altogether, while Bruce Ratner brings the Nets to play in a 3,000-seat replica of Ebbets Field. It's called compromise, people!

DDDB adds: "3,000 seats might be about right the way the Nets are drawing this year."

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Posted by amy at January 3, 2009 10:25 AM