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]
“The only stores that could possibly be considered at all low brow are Mandee’s, McDonalds and Chucky Cheese.”
Chucky Cheese is ghetto?! I had my 10th birthday there back in 1983 in Ann Arbor, Michigan 😮
sg.
funny thing is..Trader Joe’s has lower prices than Pathmark…but ghetto shoppers will shop at ghetto stores while we will be labeled evil yuppie scum
i think better shops are planned for the Fulton Mall cleanup initiative…that will be the shopping district for those who would prefer to stay away from AC
You all will get your high end shit soon enough. It’s on it’s way to Brooklyn. Urban Outfitters, Trader Joe’s…they are trickling in.
Will Atlantic Center be another Short Hills Mall?
No.
You all need to have some sense of time and patience and of not needing everything YESTERDAY.
12:50 i’m glad that at least you’re mentioning stores that you’d prefer to see there….what i dont understand is why i get slammed as racist, eltitist, etc etc for wanting such establishments
12:42 – compared to what??
For a mall the architecture is pretty good – maintains the street wall (expect for the plaza), the stores are successful and popular, it is convenient especially to mass transit (environmentally conscious) and the office tower is fully rented to a buldge bracket firm – BONY. The train station renovation seems to be coming along and will certainly be a vast improvement over anything that’s been there in the last 50 years.
Would I prefer it if Target was better kept and less crowded – yes; Would I prefer a Crate and Barrell to Chucky Cheese – yes; Would I rather a Barney’s Co-op to a Rockaway bedding – probably or a Chipolte to a McDonalds – sure BUT the whole world DOSENT CATER TO MY DESIRES – get used to it!
i hope a kennedy fried chicken opens up where houlihans was
It’s amazing what these “obviously better than all of us” self-righteous, anti-consumerist racists can come up with. It’s not ghetto! It’s a MALL! Have you ever left your self-aggrandizing closed-minded cocoon and gone to (GASP) THE SUBURBS!? Go to New Jersey or Long Island or Westchester (THE SUBURBS!) and check it out. Malls look that way. They choose awful decor with not-so-fantastic tiles and general lighting schemes, but they serve a purpose and cater to a demographic of people who will use them. Do you think that mall was built without some research into whether it would be used? People come from far reaches to shop at these places because New Yorkers, as “rich” and “well-off” as we are, like to shop at well-priced places sometimes too.
If you don’t like this mall, don’t shop at it. I think it’s been established that not everyone can afford to, or wants to, shop in gourmet food stores and organic boutiques. Maybe before you call it all ghetto, you should visit it. There are many people there who could be deemed “hipsters,” “yuppies,” etc.
12:09PM, you’re just uninformed. Fortunately, you’re insulting/stereotyping thousands of people from behind the safety of your computer. While I’m sure you only shop at New York’s finest boutiques and that Fifth Avenue is your playground, realize that you’re just enjoying yourself speak right now and no one agrees, so stop being an a-hole and grow up.
12:27, I have a problem with people assuming that it is within their superior pervue to tell other people, especially lower income people, what to buy in a dept. store. How do you know they are spending their college tuition? How do you know that some status seeking social climber, trying to keep up with high fashion, is not? More than likely, the lower income person is keeping within their budget more than the upper income person. You don’t know.
This is similar to reading about some higher income person’s “disgust” that someone on welfare bought a steak for dinner as a treat for their birthday. How dare they have a luxury, they are poor!? Everyone on this planet deserves something nice every once in a while, especially those who have nothing. If poorer people don’t shop at Target – Target, for God’s sake, what do you want them to do? Go around in rags, sackcloth and ashes? Is that proper atonement for the crime of poverty?