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April 6, 2009
Brooklyn Broadside: New Promotion To Boost Downtown Brooklyn Commerce
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Dennis Holt
In a piece on the new Downtown Brooklyn marketing campaign, Atlantic Yards booster Dennis Holt unwittingly exposes the big lie about the project's location.
Its existence brought a question from a reporter that is worth noting. He asked, ‘what is considered downtown Brooklyn these days?’ Three parts of Chan’s answer was traditional — Cadman Plaza-Court St. on the west, Tillary to the north, Atlantic Avenue to the south — but the eastern boundary has moved. It used to be Flatbush and its extension, but now the boundary is fluid.
The creation of the BAM cultural district and the Atlantic Yards will create a new center fulcrum for the downtown area and it is risky to set up firm boundaries at this time. And there will probably be a gentle melding over time of the northern and southern areas.
NoLandGrab; If Atlantic Avenue is the southern boundary of downtown, then regardless whether Flatbush is the eastern boundary or not, the planned Atlantic Yards site is not now, nor has it ever been, in Downtown Brooklyn.
Posted by eric at April 6, 2009 6:38 PM