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December 31, 2009

The 2009 Streetsie Awards: Urban Abomination of the Year

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Chalk up a well deserved Streetsie for the Atlantic Yards project — which has yet to even begin construction.

Well, people's choice voters, you chose to bestow this award on the deteriorating public space near Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. This seems a little premature to us. Forest City hasn't turned whole city blocks into oceans of surface parking plus a big ugly arena just yet, though transgressions like this certainly deserve to be shamed...

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Posted by eric at December 31, 2009 9:31 AM