Holy Crap! Atlantic Station Scheduled to Open Next Week!
This can only be described as the most momentous news in the history of time: The new LIRR terminal entrance at Atlantic Station is supposed to open to the public next week, according to a worker on the site. The MTA has been building the terminal at Flatbush and Hanson Place for what feels like…
This can only be described as the most momentous news in the history of time: The new LIRR terminal entrance at Atlantic Station is supposed to open to the public next week, according to a worker on the site. The MTA has been building the terminal at Flatbush and Hanson Place for what feels like an eternity. The worker also said that there’s supposed to be a completion ceremony inside the facility tomorrow.
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Here’s an idea: Let me transfer from one subway line to another without having to go up 33 steps, down 33 steps and then up 33 steps again.
hoping this means there’ll be more than ONE agent working the ticket windows!
I think it looks fine. I agree, frsq, some people will complain about anything on this site.
That said, I’m glad that this is finally complete. Even by the standards of unionized govt. employees, this took a long time to finish.
Based on the architectural style, it looks like this was supposed to be completed in 1935.
Is it just me or is the “Atlantic Terminal” sign over the entrance on the completely wrong scale. Those letters should be at least three times bigger. It reminds me of Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge that was at risk of being trampled by dwarves. Or Derek Zoolander’s School for Children who Can’t Read Good…
They had put the sign up a few weeks ago, took it down, and put it back up. I had been hoping the first iteration was just a bad prototype.
Otherwise, the new entrance should be a step up for the station – project delays, cost overruns, et al.
Reading market idea would have been nice but….People love Target, and Buffalo Wild Wings has GREAT wings – best place to watch a game anywhere in the area-
Brooklyn Greene:
Amen!
Of course there was A LOT of infrastructure and internal station (subway and LIRR) work that was done over the years but I agreed that getting the atrium entryway finished really has seem like “forever”!
I’ll miss the old-fashioned fish-scale hood over the old subway entrance on Atlantic. I like those old fish-scale entrances and some of the more elaborate ones around Manhattan. It makes me think a little of Paris (very different style, yes, I know)…or, at least a more decorative beaux art past, that though boring, had some elegant touches, or attempts at them, as part of the streetscape.
For years, since HSBC took over the WBSB Building, the glass subway sign above the entrance at that building has been smashed and cracked on one side. It’s STILL, after the building has changed hands, the work almost finished and scaffolding taken down on that side–it is STILL broken…I guess that goes with them never getting the clock lights to work after the big deal renovation–very aggravating to me. Sorry.
Wouldn’t have been GREAT if they could have made something like the Reading Market in Philadelphia (!!!) instead: a location for a big box retailer, a chain restaurant based on “wings”, and a bunch of other chain stores. Blech.
i arrived in new york just before 9/11 bright eyed and bushy tailed, and walked through that construction to my first apartment a few hundred feet away…
i’ll almost miss that mess of a site…
Posted by: sender9999 at December 16, 2009 10:49 AM
Me too, minus about a year. Nostalgia.