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January 27, 2010
The MTA’s big bollards are an affront to Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Paper, Editorial
The Brooklyn Paper is no fan of the Atlantic Terminal's massive, ugly, sarcophagus-like security perimeter, and is afraid we can expect more of the same when Forest City and the MTA team up on another nearby project.
Worse, the same pattern is playing out at the state’s Barclays Center across the street. In this case, the architecture firm SHoP has presented dramatic designs for the basketball arena — renderings that show a line of thin, architecturally reasonable bollards.
But will those renderings be tossed away in a closed-door meeting, just as the original Atlantic Terminal renderings were? We’ve asked the Empire State Development Corporation repeatedly, but the agency won’t answer.
As a result, we’ll likely get stuck with another Flatbush fortress — one that gets sprung on us at the last minute without any prior discussion with, or concern for, the public.
That’s unacceptable.
Posted by eric at January 27, 2010 11:51 PM