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February 6, 2011
A random, off-kilter Atlantic Yards reference in fiction
Atlantic Yards Report
If Amy Sohn's dishy novel Prospect Park West offers some amusing references to Atlantic Yards, Adam Dunn's recently published Rivers of Gold, a dystopian, near-future (2013) fictional vision of New York, pushes AY off kilter:
Within forty minutes, Dr. Zuckerman's Z was on its way to the police impound on Eleventh Avenue (a half-cleared yard left fallow since the city's Atlantic Yards renovation project collapsed in '08) where it would stay lost for a month.
Well, Atlantic Yards isn't a city project, nor a renovation project, nor located on Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan, nor collapsed.
But it must have a dystopian ring of some sorts.
Here's an enthusiastic review of the book from the Washington Post.
Posted by steve at February 6, 2011 8:32 PM