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May 19, 2010
Review & Comment: Little Ol’ Brooklyn
Brookln Daily Eagle
by Henrik Krogius
The Eagle's Krogius finally talks some sense, but too little, too late.
As New York’s single most populous borough, Brooklyn is expected to absorb its share of the city’s additional million anticipated by 2020. In that context the four thousand apartments projected for Atlantic Yards, at a major transportation hub, make obvious sense.
He means by 2030, but that's not the part that makes sense.
So here we are, in little ol’ Brooklyn, facing the monster of growth. We have no realistic prospect of holding it entirely at bay. What is open to us is to exercise the best judgments as to where the growth fits better and where it does not. We can’t shut out the next ten or fifteen years. Brooklyn will have to grow. The best hope – and it may take further economic calamity – is that despite the inertia a way will eventually be found to modify our capitalistic workings so that we can live with what we have rather than always demanding that there be more.
Posted by eric at May 19, 2010 10:59 PM