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June 18, 2009
Atlantic Yards Watch
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Sean Elder
Bruce Ratner has finally made it official: Frank Gehry is out as designer of the ill-fated Atlantic Yards Project.
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"At this point the Atlantic Yards plan has nothing to do with the project New Yorkers were promised," the Times concluded. Gehry was always just the shiny bauble, or maker of shiny baubles, that hypnotized some well-meaning citizens.
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I was at a benefit for the Brooklyn Museum not long ago, seated between a couple of well-heeled museum supporters - both from the Upper East Side - when one of them mentioned how much she loved Jhumpa Lahiri's last book. I mentioned that Lahiri had done a reading at my house to benefit Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn. An awkward silence followed. "We're all for not destroying Brooklyn," one of them finally said, "but we also care about The Future."For her The Future meant a big behemoth, representing progress, the kind that cultural missionaries have always brought to ungrateful primitives like us.
Posted by lumi at June 18, 2009 6:38 AM