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]
People who want bargains should go to Costco. I go there myself. It is better stocked, and parking right outside the door in their big parking lot. It’s on 4th Ave and 36th Street. Easier to get to than Atlantic Center, despite being further way, due to the heinous congestion around Atlantic.
There. I pointed out a better place to get bargains. Now in light of that, tell us again, why go to the badly stocked, crappy Target at Atlantic Center?
Then keep your sensitive eyes closed, 12:25, and God willing, you’ll be flattened by an eastbound bus.
burlington coat factory is ghetto
marshall’s is ghetto
payless is ghetto
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so chelsea is ghetto too? they have a burlington?
there is a payless at 90th and broadway. ghetto too?
you’re a sicko and a racist.
You DON’T have to accept it, 12:24. Just stay the hell out of the store and shop somewhere else. Problem solved.
Irrespective of the quality of the mall’s architecture or of the stores, merchandise, quality, and service levels therein, can someone explain to me since when it became socially acceptable on a public forum to assign racial connotations to those qualities by defining them as “ghetto” or “not ghetto”? Shameful!
Except 12:19, people buying the $5,000 Prada bag aren’t usually spending their kids’ college tuition doing so. I have huge sympathy for the poor. But I can have that sympathy and still think they make bad choices a lot of times with their finances. Pity for the poor doesn’t really help them. Telling them how to do better does.
Everyone here is so self-righteous.
If you are so “in hate” with all of the “Chinese” merchandise that Target, and the other (quite mainstream) shops in Atlantic Terminal Mall sell, don’t go there. It’s obviously a successful store (THE most shopped at Target in the USA), it caters to a demographic of people who seem to LOVE shopping at it (its prices are good compared with other retailers in Brooklyn) and it has created some decent jobs, and made the lives of residents easier in a way because you can do a good deal of shopping without having to travel far.
Perhaps the things on their shelves are below you, as you’re obviously well-heeled (reading real estate blogs in the middle of the day and all), but try to be optimistic. Think of what was in place of this mall before, then look ahead to how much of this type of stuff is coming to downtown Brooklyn over the next decade… It’s too late to grouse.
11:59 is correct. Atlantic Avenue is not Fifth Avenue, but it’s hardly ghetto. That word is so over used by absent-minded pinheads that they should reevaluate what they say, or think before you write. Buy your things at Takashimaya or Barneys if you’re so much better than all of this.
“I like the mall. It is 100% better than the …..NOTHING….that was there previously.”
“Blighted Brooklyn? Ridiculous. If you hate shopping at the mall so much, 12:09, stay the hell away from there!”
I don’t have a big objection to having a mall at that location. I just would have f’ing appreciated it if it had been WELL-DESIGNED and a decent place to shop. It isn’t.
The attitude that it’s better than nothing speaks to a very defeatist position, as if it’s just fine for a developer to build any pile of garbage, just because it’s better than nothing. Brooklyn deserved much better, but now we are blighted by those hideous structures, basically forever.
I’d be happy to stay away from the mall, but as it happens, it’s located at a key intersection. I don’t have any option but to gaze upon its hideousity every time I travel through that area.
thi mall was obviously designed to serve the clientele north/east of flatbush