Atlantic Terminal Station Starting to Show its Face
The seemingly interminable reconstruction of the LIRR station at the Atlantic Terminal is finally revealing signs of progress. Exterior brickwork for the station, directly across the street from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and attached to the Atlantic Terminal Mall, has started going up over the past month or so. While there’s never been much…
The seemingly interminable reconstruction of the LIRR station at the Atlantic Terminal is finally revealing signs of progress. Exterior brickwork for the station, directly across the street from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and attached to the Atlantic Terminal Mall, has started going up over the past month or so. While there’s never been much doubt the station will end up looking as generic as the rest of the Atlantic Terminal and Center, the construction (going strong for five years now) has made getting to the LIRR a confusing pain in the ass, and mangled street and sidewalk traffic. A press release from the MTA that came out earlier this year didn’t pinpoint when the revamp’ll finally be finished. Anyone know? We won’t be holding our breath.
Work Continues on Major Renovation Project [MTA]
It’s damn ugly, but I have shopped at the DSW and Daffy’s. I wish it wasn’t such an eyesore, but let’s face it, people need places to shop that aren’t cute high-priced boutiques. And at least you can take public transportation there, unlike the malls in the burbs.
I’m disgusted to know I live around so many racist bigots.
While I don’t particularly LOVE shopping at Atlantic Center, I do go to Target every once in a while.
And my dislike for the place has nothing to do with the people who shop there.
It simply has to do with the fact that it’s not the nicest place to shop because of crowds, a pretty ugly space and all the traffic I have to cross to get there from PS.
It’s interesting to hear such passive agressive racism on this thread.
I agree with 1:01PM. How can target and Bath and Body Works, etc. be called “ghetto” when they don’t actually operate establishments IN “GHETTOS.”
Target operates 99% of its stores in the middle of strip malls in Suburbia, USA. THAT IS NOT GHETTO.
It’s just sad how these egregious lowlifes can drop judgement when a) they don’t know what “ghetto” means because they have never been to anything remotely “ghetto” b) they feel superior because they sit behind their computers in the middle of the day verbally bashing people rather than trying to respect things they’re not 100% familiar or comfortable with. Just so sad.
1:03 i did post any of the “ghetto” statements . .
this topic has come up on a few ocassions on various blogs and whenever i even suggest some shops for brooklyn (like the ones mentioned in 12:50) i get the whole tired “go back to ohio” nonsense
I’ve seen a couple of people on here ask why Brooklyn doesn’t have nice, upscale big retail like Barneys and instead we get Target etc. Well, kids, look at the demographics. We’ve got a relatively small (if growing) number of wealthy people who could sustain a Barneys, and literally a million Brooklynites who can only afford Target & ilk. Retailers have reams of demographic data on which they base their location decisions, and if the demographics were right for downtown Brooklyn we’d have Anthropologie and Crate & Barrel there faster than you can say “Atlantic Yards Effect.”
Don’t like it? Well, maybe you need to think about how we’ve come to live in a city whose economy is so wildly unequal, where the gap between rich and poor is widening every day and the middle class is disappearing. Let’s start talking about how to change that, and then we can stop complaining how beautiful nabes still have lousy retail.
sg.
Lowbrow does not equal “ghetto” – but sorry Chucky Cheese isnt exactly a cultured and sophisticated establishment (don’t feel bad I had many a B’day at a bowling alley)
Access to transport from the street at this station has been poor since I moved to NY in 1987. Not the tortuous “can’t find your way out” way it is now, but always pretty lousy. As far as the newer mall, I’m disappointed with the dead streetscape towards Fort Greene. I’ts very similar to what’s going on with the Metrotech Buildings. The butts of the buildings face the neighborhood. The types of buildigs Ratner seems to build seem suburban and car oriented.
Shopping wise, the place seems like the typical NE mid-market mix. I think the stores get so way shopped out jut because Brookly doeesn’t have enough mass retailing and there’s appeal in the affordability. I’ve found that places like CostCo are also mobbed and only easy to get to if you have a car.
No one says anyone is a racist for preferring a Chipolte over McDonald’s. You can want whatever you want, and none of 12:50’s suggestions are bad, either.
It is elitest, and more than slightly racist to insist that mainstream, national businesses are “ghetto”, a loaded term that has absolutely nothing to do with Britney Spears, and more to do with Missy Elliot. Also loaded is this “East of Flatbush” phrase which just means lower income black and Latino Brooklyn. Last time I looked, everyone lived everywhere in Brooklyn.
I am so tired of this race and class war. Who would have thought it would be fought in the aisles of Target and Chucky Cheez?
12:54 – you get slammed as a racist if you call a successful mall a failure and “ghetto” – when the only legitimate reason to do so is the color of a significant portion of the shoppers, or if you judge the spending habits of said constituency by knowing nothing more then what’s in their cart at Target and what they look like; or if you spout off into some absolutely nonsensical rant about the dumb American consumer culture b/c a Target is successful.