Envisioning Atlantic Yards Through Google Earth

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Blogger Invisible Man has, in his own words, been "geeking out" with the beta version of Google Earth that's available for the Mac. One neat feature is the ability to overlay images on top of the satellite imagery. The view above is IM's effort to visualize the scale of the current Atlantic Yard's proposal. Blends right in, eh?
AY Visualization in Google Earth [Invisible Man]

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Great visual! It'll be exciting to see this in reality.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 6, 2006 9:40 AM

Kinda crazy. That sh!t is huge!

Posted by: Kel at February 6, 2006 10:10 AM

I wish some architect with time on their hands could overlay the shadow that thing will throw down. I fear for my light!

Posted by: Anonymous at February 6, 2006 10:19 AM

Talk about 'out of context' - Brooklyn isnt FLAT,
More BS "anti" crap.

Posted by: David at February 6, 2006 10:25 AM

You'd need the Grand Canyon to put that in context, not the piddly little slope that Flatbush is on. A picture worth a thousand words.

Posted by: petunia at February 6, 2006 10:32 AM

Hmmmm...I wonder...those million dollar views from the future luxury condos in the Wmsbg Bank Building might be comprised...

Posted by: Anonymous at February 6, 2006 10:52 AM

It might give them something to look at - get those binoculars out! More channels than cableTV.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 6, 2006 10:57 AM

Anything's better than leaving the railyards the way they are.

Posted by: If I Was David I Would Say at February 6, 2006 10:58 AM

Actually, it doesn't look half bad. All of downtown Brooklyn should be on the scale of the Williamsburg Bank building. By the looks of it, there is a lot of room to build.

Lets get those bulldozers ready to rumble!!

Posted by: Eryximachus at February 6, 2006 11:07 AM

The views won't be affected, as the main sights are in the opposite direction.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 6, 2006 11:36 AM

Eryximachus -

Agree with you about Downtown Brooklyn being on that scale. Absolutely. And it was recently zoned to support it.

Only problem is, all this Atlantic Yards development is in Prospect Heights and (now) northern Park Slope. And the people in those neighborhoods and surrounding ones are being locked out of the development process. Even though, a) their homes are under threat of seizure, b) their lives and properties are being directly affected, and c) their tax dollars are being used to subsidize this private development.

The other problem is: this whole "tower in a garden" theme that Gehry's puking out is such fecking '60s dead-streetlife crap. Um, hasn't every housing project in the city proved that superblocks don't work?

Why are we getting this crap from a "starchitect."

Posted by: chuck at February 6, 2006 12:07 PM

Concerned about light? Sell your brownstone and buy a high floor condo in the development. More light and better views!

Posted by: Anonymous at February 6, 2006 1:02 PM

MacIntosh is so ten minutes ago.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 6, 2006 3:00 PM

Using google earth, I set positioned myself at Myrtle and Clermont (where I live), tilted the view so it was nearly horizontal and set the view south, so I'd have some sense of what the project would look like from my part of the nabe. The google earth rendering does indeed make the stadium project huge -- like a mideval cathedral towering over a french farming town. But as David pointed out, the problem with Google earth is that it made every brownstown, church steeple, and high rise between me and the stadium flat to non-existant. Using this application, I still have no idea how the project would appear from the northern part of Ft. Greene.

Posted by: Hans at February 6, 2006 5:59 PM

Hans, darling, we're ALL going to feel "flat to non-existent" when this bugger gets built.

Posted by: Anon at February 6, 2006 6:10 PM

Speak for yourself, anon 6:10. Some people actually support this project and are looking forward to its (inevitable) arrival.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 7, 2006 7:59 AM

Yeah, 7:59... Some people also supported the demolition of Penn Station, the construction of the BQE through Brooklyn Heights, and the plan to run a highway through Washington Square Park. Some people looked forward to all of those things. Those people maybe didn't know it, but they hated New York City.

Posted by: adn at February 7, 2006 11:43 AM

Feel free to speak what you think those people felt, but, once again, don't speak for me. I know what I feel. I love NYC and I want this development to come to pass.

Posted by: Anonymous at February 7, 2006 12:10 PM

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February 6, 2006

Envisioning Atlantic Yards Through Google Earth

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