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May 24, 2010
The Dean Green Monster
Photo, by Tracy Collins, via flickr Atlantic Yards Photo Pool.
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Dean Street between Vanderbilt and Carlton Avenues
Prospect Heights
Brooklyn, New YorkNewly installed fake greenery on the fence that surrounds the former site of the Ward Bread Bakery.
This lot is currently being used to support construction of the Barclays Center Arena of Atlantic Yards. It will eventually become a "temporary" surface parking lot with a 1000+ car capacity. Someday it may be the site of several residential towers.
Related coverage...
Curbed, Atlantic Yards Construction Chronicles
To those who consider Atlantic Yards a soul-crushing, neighborhood-destroying miscarriage of justice, we say this: At least the project is going green! With a, um, really long fence covered in "newly installed fake greenery." Well, that's one way to dress up a future parking lot! Let's call it Lebron's* Lawn.
(*Lebron results not guaranteed.)
Posted by lumi at May 24, 2010 5:58 AM