Thursday Links

Prospect Park. Photo by MarkHout.
Democrats in New York: Enthusiastic and Divided [NY Times]
Poly's Vote on NYU Merger Likely to be Delayed [NY Times]
Pintchik Props May Be Redeveloped [NY Sun]
Canarsie Advertising H.S. OK'd [NY Daily News]
Bklyn Tow Co. Suing City [NY Daily News]
Big Rise in Subway Riders [NY Post]

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Once again a few special interests doom Poly to remain a third tier University.

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 8:42 AM

What special interests are those, 8:42?

Posted by: g man at February 7, 2008 9:13 AM

Poly Profs whose departments overlap with those that already exist at NYU. Who cares about the students?

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 9:42 AM

^^^^ Excellent photo ^^^^

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 9:42 AM

Agreed, one of the best photos in a long time.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at February 7, 2008 9:51 AM

9:42 and Montrose Morris - that's very nice of you, thanks!

MarkHout

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 10:10 AM

would have been nice to see an article that finally focuses on the positive aspects of AY be made the subject of an individual topic, instead of being relegated to the links list.

ditto re photo comments

Posted by: BrooklynLove at February 7, 2008 1:52 PM

There's a positive aspect to AY? Bruce Ratner must be tipping his callboys REALLY well.

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 3:43 PM

D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L!!!

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 4:22 PM

D-E-A-D-D-E-A-L!!!

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 4:25 PM

GO PINTCHIK!!!!!!LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 5:16 PM

"There's a positive aspect to AY?"

1. Jobs
2. Housing
3. Parkland
4. Sports arena
5. Will piss off self-interested/NIMBY/Daniel Goldstein flacks (3:43).

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 5:21 PM

he swings... he misses...

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 5:44 PM

Okay...AY may not impact me all that much BUT, I had to counter some of this:

1 Jobs??? =low pay retail with no benefits, next!

2 Housing... mostly higher-end, not considered "affordable"…it shouldn’t even be called “Housing”! It should be called “Residences” or “Homes” like on all those new towers down Atlantic toward the Heights.
Look, FCR was gifted an exception: they are not going to have to build MIXED income buildings like everyone else. They are getting to put up expensive towers for the well-off and segregate all the "affordable" units into single buildings. Completely skirts the intention of hard-won legislation.
The whole proposed project is the result of this vein of executive dispensation bestowed upon a developer with connections. It’s the M.O. of A.Y.

3 Parkland...WHAT?! This is stupid! The plans are NOT for parkland. The open space is planned to be more "private" and gerrymandered than anything remotely approaching a park. What a laugh! Just about all of it is scrunched in between hi-rises.

4 Sports arena...uh...we could argue about this one for days...but all the studies arenas blight and degrade residential areas they're built in. Plus, in this fiasco, the taxpayer would own the liability and FCR would rent it for $1.
Of course FCR has set up deals like the Barclay naming rights for $400 million ALL going to FCR. Thanks guys!

5 No comment...

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 7:12 PM

Oh...and the photo is "okay"...but let's not get carried away.

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 7:13 PM

"4 Sports arena...uh...we could argue about this one for days...but all the studies arenas blight and degrade residential areas they're built in."

Thank you. MSG, Yankee, Shea, Meadowlands, even Ebbett's Field in it's day - all undesireable for residential. I'm all for AY but I wouldn't be looking to buy a home in Prospect Heights to live in.

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 10:02 PM

yankee, shea, meadowlands, ebbets are all STADIUMS!! not arenas.

a HUGE difference.

like 20,000 people different.

comparing them is like apples and oranges.

so sick of this debate.

Posted by: guest at February 7, 2008 10:39 PM