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September 12, 2009
How to Make Us Care About the LIRR: With This Thing!
Curbed
The entrance along Hanson Place to the Long Island is a many-years-delayed public benefit that was promised as part of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Center and Atlantic Terminal malls. Curbed has posted a picture of the inside of the entrance as it slowwwly makes it way to completion.
The Atlantic Yards megaproject has distracted us from the long overdue completion of the new Long Island Rail Road entrance pavilion just across Flatbush Avenue, wedged into the Atlantic Center mall. It was supposed to be done in 2007, but "unforeseen site conditions" delayed the target date to, hey now, this fall! As anyone who's wandered the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street transit hub (while it's still called that) knows, the construction has become a confusing mess over the years. But here's the thing: Has it all been worth it? Check out the startling reveal above of the work-in-progress station, complete with sky views up to One Hanson Place's dome and a cool pixel-like thingamajig...
Posted by steve at September 12, 2009 5:02 AM