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December 28, 2009
Video: a walk around the arena block footprint shows traffic, demolitions, and perspectives from a wide road and a low-rise neighborhood
Atlantic Yards Report
Tour guide Norman Oder takes Norman Oder on a walking tour of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project:
Early in the afternoon on December 24 I took my camera to shoot some video (bottom) around the footprint slated for the arena block, the western third, more or less, of the site plan.
I wanted to see the new advertising signage erected by Forest City Ratner after the master closing and I wanted to see the impact of the new traffic plan, in which Fifth Avenue is limited to northbound traffic between Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, and southbound traffic is diverted to Sixth Avenue.
My conclusion: on a high-traffic day, the traffic was pretty bad, with gridlock at Atlantic Avenues going into Fort Greene Place (the northern extension of Fifth Avenue between the Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center malls), though it was manageable with the help of traffic officers.
That's an interim condition, of course, because Fifth Avenue would be completely demapped, either compounding the problem or provoking new solutions.
Check out the rest of the article for a map of the tour and Oder's observations on neighborhood character and the real estate market.
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