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August 6, 2009
It came from the Blogosphere...
The Mets Police, Inbox: The Brooklyn Dodgers In Flushing?
The location of the once-proposed Ebbets Field replacement is again mis-ID'ed.
O'Malley wanted to build a modern ballpark above the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn (exactly where Bruce Ratner is now struggling to build an arena for the Nets), arguing that the easy access to both the LIRR and the subway would guarantee that large numbers of fans would be able to easily flock to the ballpark for years to come.
Blog commenter Norman Oder beats us to a correction (O'Malley proposed building on the site now occupied by the Atlantic Center mall).
Not true.
http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2007/04/omalley-stadium.html
team tish, CM James Restates Position on Proposed Atlantic Yards Project
Statement by Council Member Letitia James about Status of the Proposed Atlantic Yards Project
As the City Council Member representing the area in which the Atlantic Yards project is proposed, I must once again state my opposition to the plan as presented by developer Forest City Ratner, as well as its currently proposed modifications.
Curbed, Winners & Losers
The cover story in the August issue of The Real Deal is a list of the best and worst real estate deals in the year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and it's a conversation starter, for sure. Making the "best" list are such hot-button topics as Bruce Ratner's pending purchase of the Vanderbilt Rail Yards from the MTA for trinkets and exotic spices...
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill], The Day: Get Informed on Atlantic Yards
There’s an informational meeting on Atlantic Yards tonight at the Irondale Theater, 85 South Oxford, aimed at educating anyone who would like to officially weigh in on the proposed changes to the Atlantic Yards project — the public-comment period still has three weeks to go.
The meeting, from 7:30 to 9, is presented by the Fort Greene Association and the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods. A team headed by Tom Angotti, an urban affairs professor at Hunter College, will answer big questions like, What has changed? How long will the project take? Where are the jobs? Where is the affordable housing? Where is the public benefit?
The Architect's Newspaper Blog, MoMA Makes for Bad Neighbor
Atlantic Yards makes a cameo, playing a baiting-and-switching villain, in this post about the fight over the Museum of Modern Art's plan to erect a 1,200-foot tower in Midtown.
[Amanda] Burden added, underscoring the commission’s concern with preserving the building as designed over other issues, “It’s very important how we memorialize and freeze critical design elements.” This way, the commissioners believe, and the applicant, Hines, seems to agree, Nouvel’s tower and nothing else would or even could be built there. It’s a valid concern (see: Frank Gehry, Atlantic Yards), but for the building’s neighbors nowhere near the top of the list.
Be sure to check out the video produced by local opponents of the MoMA proposal. Best touch: foreboding music accompanying the closing credits.
Posted by eric at August 6, 2009 10:56 AM