Closing Bell: Brooklyn Bridge Park Demo Moving Along

Since the demo at BBP began earlier this year, every post highlighting its progress has barely received half a dozen comments. The contrast with 2006/07 is striking, when the mere mention of this amazing project would bring out all the doomsayers and the "never gonna happen crowd". But all these losers who will never admit publicly -or to their own dellusional selves- that they were DEAD WRONG have moved on to hotter topics of the day, such as endless buy vs rent threads.
Conclusion: beware of the "experts" who sound like they know what they are talking about and talk you out of this or that investment on these blogs. They know NOTHING. Negativity and obstacles excites them. A project with a clearly defined timetable does not.

Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 6:41 PM

well, i wasn't gonna go quite as far as the previous poster but, yeah, that's kinda what i was thinkin too.

Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 6:54 PM

Demolition is a far cry from the project being completed.

Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 7:43 PM

Well, one of the downsides of not being anonymous, and establishing yourself as a 'brownstoner personality', BKlove, is you'll never live down the multiple comments insisting MTV would never, ever bring The Real World downtown.I'm not trying to be a jerk, i'm just saying, people speak too quickly on both sides of the commenting fence, its not always from the anons,(oh, and you were agreeing with the first 2 anonymous commenters on this thread).

Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 7:48 PM

Good point 7:43, the odds of 85 acres of cement just being left to collect dust seem high. Christ.

Posted by: guest at June 10, 2008 7:50 PM

I agree with the comments on this thread. Though I sometimes joke about it, I've come to believe that a fair amount of people who post on brownstoner prefer abandoned buildings, decrepit warehouses, trash, graffitti, and low-level criminal activity (prostitution, marijuana sales) to the gentrification that is taking place.

I think it's because many of them have never lived in a blighted area and therefore view the above social ills from a safe distance, as though these things were as "cool" or "hip" and define what it means to be urban.

Posted by: guest at June 11, 2008 9:38 AM

wtf does > mean?

Posted by: guest at June 11, 2008 9:44 AM

did you go to grade school 9:44?

Posted by: guest at June 11, 2008 10:15 AM

> means "greater than", as long as the item/number listed is placed on the left-hand side. Any item/number placed on the right-hand side is "lesser than". This symbol used in elementary level mathematics.

BLove is using this as a way of saying that Ratner is more powerful or superior to the TV show "The Real World" or people who follow and don't think for themselves.

Posted by: guest at June 11, 2008 11:00 AM

BKL, I'm just saying as per your comment "another never gonna happen call from the knowledgable anons" (a little snarky, no?) I imagine there have been plenty of registered people who might have said "never gonna happen" to any assortment of issues(as you have) and been wrong, so why its gotta always be about anons? thats all..- guest @7:48

I rarely pipe up, but I guess i'm trying to stick up for the people who choose not to register . If my point is lost on you guys than maybe thats why i dont pipe up much.

btw, although I may choose to be a "guest" here, i am born and bred, live and work Brooklyn, I just dont think i need to develop a "web personality" on a blog where even though we can pick our names, we're still anonymous in the real world, not a good or bad thing, just my choice. -peace

Posted by: guest at June 11, 2008 11:05 AM

The funds for actually building the park -as opposed to just knocking down the big tin sheds- is still about 150 million dollars short. The naysayers may end up being right for another ten years.

Posted by: guest at June 11, 2008 11:30 AM

no singular identity > brooklynlove

Posted by: guest at June 12, 2008 12:22 PM