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]
daffy’s is indeed ghetto…ever see the carp they sell
pathmark is ghetto
burlington coat factory is ghetto
marshall’s is ghetto
payless is ghetto
buffalo wild wings is ghetto
i’ll give u starbux and coldstone
but this Target is the most ghetto one ive ever been to in terms of shopping experience…so what if they sell well? crack did well in the 80’s are you sad to see that gone?
Atlantic Center/Atlantic Terminal have BLIGHTED Brooklyn. They are singularly unpleasant places to shop (due to sthe upposedly anti-theft lay-out), not to mention completely hideous. Everything Ratner has built in Brooklyn so far is hideous and destructive of the streetscape (viz, the superblock design of Metrotech). I can’t imagine why Atlantic Yards is going to be any different. You know that saying about insanity…
The fact that people buy loads of crap at Target doesn’t redeem it. It just shows that there is a voracious appetite out there for loads of crap, and this is the only place in the vicinity that you can buy loads of Chinese-made garbage. Hell, there’s times I’ve wanted to go to a mall and buy a pile of cheap crap, but that mall is such a horrible place to shop, I always think better of it.
Maybe I should thank Ratner for helping me limit my shopping and save money by building such a horrible mall.
11:59 is right. A failed mall would be an empty one. The problem with lack of merchandise at Target is that this is the number one store in their entire chain. They can’t restock the shelves fast enough.
Me at 12:05, when I referenced the 11:59 post, I meant the first post at 11:59, the guy defending Atlantic Center as some kind of fabulous shopping experience.
Don’t miss the word “virtually” in 11:59’s post. This mall is NOT fully rented, all these years later.
Failure.
Everybody says so.
11:59 are you deranged – you think Ratner controls the merchandising and service of the stores in this mall?
Can’t wait for Atlantic Yards! Anyone who thinks it will be any different than this (or than any other RATner development (Metrotech?) is in for a huge disappointment. It will be EXACTLY as bad as this mall if not worse.
Ratner is a racist who clearly doesn’t think that residents of Brooklyn deserve anything better than sorry architecture, poor usability/accessibility, crappy merchandise and sub-standard service.
11:49 – Ghetto establishments?
Target – in every upscale suburban community in this nation
Mens Warehouse – they sell suits
Cold Stone Creamery – see Target above
Starbucks – ubiquitous and not at all “ghetto”
Daffy’s – not a single store in a “ghetto” neighborhood – unless you consider SOHO or Smithtown to be ghettos
Victoria Secret – see Starbucks
Bath and Body Works – see Starbucks
Guitar Center – since when did guitars become “Ghetto”
DSW – see Daffy’s
The only stores that could possibly be considered at all low brow are Mandee’s, McDonalds and Chucky Cheese.
The Target is one of top revenue producers in the chain and the mall is virtually fully rented – please define “failure” for us.
why does brooklyn retail only cater to poor people and overly trendy garbage hipsters?
nothing in between…like maybe a GAP??