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The Carlton Avenue Bridge, part of the Atlantic Yards footprint, is scheduled to close in less than a week for up to two years of reconstruction. Traffic is going to be rerouted to Sixth and Vanderbilt avenues. Atlantic Yards Report sees the closing as the start of a “three-year reconstruction clock,” since the Sixth Avenue Bridge’s one-year rehab is supposed to follow work on the Carlton Avenue Bridge. If that timetable is followed, therefore, it means the earliest the Nets arena would open is January 2011.
Carlton Avenue Bridge Will Close January 16 [AY Report] GMAP
A Sign on Pacific Street [Brit in Brooklyn]


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  1. The closing of that bridge is one of the first real indications of what life post-atlantic yards will be like. The project, happening or not, has no consideration for the existing communities. To have to walk further to get from p-heights to ft. greene is not an issue of laziness, its an issue of terrible urban planning.
    Its not whining to oppose it. It means someone has an invested interest in the place that they live. Which is what makes a neighborhood desirable in the first place.
    I propose a demonstration on the 16th to at least draw attention to the continuing dismantling of the place in which we live. Its the least we can do before those of us in the footprint are forced from our homes.

  2. whine, whine, whine
    boo hoo hoo
    don’t you people have anything better to do than sit around and bitch about having to walk a little more? god, with all the problems in the world i would think hauling your fat ass another couple of blocks would be good and keep you healthier so my insurance rates don’t keep going up!

    Whose whining who?
    Who has less time me or you.

    Whine or no Whine, Ratner sucks and you folks who bend over for his big you know what…..can yell out neophyte all you want….better than following a greedy “leader type”
    Ratner sucks