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April 6, 2012
Brooklyn Broadside: What Will Downtown Brooklyn Look Like in the Year 2012?
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Dennis Holt
The veteran Eagle columnist swallows a handful of mushrooms and predicts the future of Brooklyn development.
With all the development underway again in Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg and elsewhere, maybe it’s time for some crystal ball gazing. I’ve picked 2022, 10 years away, because it is safer than picking five years hence.
Andrew Cuomo will be in his second term as president, having been renominated at the 2020 Democratic convention held at Barclays Center. Christine Quinn will have just completed her second term as mayor, and Marilyn Gelber will be in her second term as Brooklyn borough president.
God help us on those first two. Marilyn would be a giant upgrade over the current situation, however.
Can you guess the one topic on which the great prognosticator's Magic 8-Ball keeps returning a "Reply Hazy - Try Again?"
But even I cannot predict how the building of the full Atlantic Yards project will proceed — or when.
Posted by eric at April 6, 2012 11:02 AM