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]
OK, so if this Target is its busiest and most profitable store, why not hire more employees to re-stock those shelves or even pick up the inventory from the floors? Step into any other Target outside of NYC and they are clean and well-stocked. Why should we accept this?
12:09 – Virtually no one cares about your arrogant, morally superior, (and no doubt temporary until you have a kid) anti-consumerism message.
Some of us can’t afford or don’t want to spend triple the price for toilet paper, or dog food or diapers or whatever staple that Target sells at some rip-off bodega, dirty supermarket or some fake au-natural store like Union Market.
here here 12:19. I suspect that the problem some of these posters actually have is with the color of the families doing the shopping.
-a white guy
Gimme’ back the old Horn & Hardart’s, A&S’s and all the good vibes that used to be associated with downtown Brooklyn….
And thank you from my heart 12:11PM … the mall works for me too… let the naysayers shop somewhere else.
Well, 12:14, most those shoppers you’re so proud of come from Flatbush areas of Brooklyn and there’s a brand new BIGGER Target store being built on Flatbush as we speak! So it’s buh-bye Atlantic Center shoppers. Once they’re gone, the stores at Atlantic Center get no biz. And yes actually, 3 years later in the hottest neighborhood in Brooklyn, the storefronts should all be rented out. Sorry.
Lastly, it’s not just a few people’s personal tastes that call Atlantic Center ugly. Ratner himself says it:
From the Brooklyn Paper, March 27 2004:
“Ratner, who in the past has been tight-lipped about the poor design of the mall, recently admitted that mistakes were made.
‘When I started, I did not have any understanding of the importance of architecture,’ Ratner told New York magazine. ‘So honestly, Atlantic Center is not something that we’re terribly proud of.’ ”
12:17 is correct…sunset park will benefit mightily from this
Or swing by Daffys, pick up some carp, and pan-roast it with a nice vinaigrette.
While I won’t argue about Target being poorly stocked, and in need of much employee help, both on the floor and at registers, I do have an issue with someone’s disgust at seeing “families in there spending their last dime on junk they don’t need.” Umm – I could easily argue that practically every American of any income group spends way too much money on junk they don’t need. No one NEEDS a $5,000 Prada handbag, or their Manolos, any more than someone in Target may need some cheap toys from China, or a chip and dip bowl with dancing jalapeno peppers painted on the side. Lower income people are in Target for the same reason higher income people like it – cheap stuff, and lots of it.
Carver bank…ghetto