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]
Is anyone on this board even remotely familiar with the standard industry-wide practice of racial profiling conducted by the retail sector? That’s why the stores located in heavily minority areas will always be inferior in EVERY respect to the ones in whiter areas. It’s that plain and simple. The more blacks and hispanics you have as clients, the crappier the store will be. It’s the most common racist practice right up there with real estate redlining.
sg : many corporations own various “levels” of retail/dining
like BR/Gap/Old Navy
is there anything wring with saying u prefer BR over Old Navy? so what if their owned by the same entity?
sg: you probably shopped at Meijer, too. Now THAT’S what we need in brooklyn.
12:50pm
Little known secret: Chipolte is owned by McDonald’s. If the Brownstoner crowd knew that, Chipotle would be another “ghetto” establishment. Maybe they already know.
-sg.
my favorite “mall” is actually an outdoor strip:
Americana in Manhasset (LI)
thank you 1:14.
Also, while the choice of the word “ghetto” might be offensive, the real racists are the retail chains themselves, who maintain these particular stores as second-class outposts because their market/demographic studies have shown that minorities are their main customers.
Hence, shitty inventory, poor re-stocking, emphasis on loss prevention/anti-theft mechanisms, poor customer service, and the list goes on.
i would LOVE a bowling alley in the new atlantic yards!
Time Warner Center is Atlantic Terminal Mall with excessive (tacky) use of marble and mahogany. It’s really more Bud Light than Veuve Cliquot, but has also been accepted for what it is. It’s interesting that you brought it up, because it’s almost exactly on the other end of the spectrum.
People who regularly shop at stores like L’Occitane and Williams Sonoma don’t usually want to have to fight crowds in a mall to do so, but in this case, they do. On the same note, most Target stores are not IN malls, rather they anchor them as separate free-standing buildings. Things, however, in an urban context such as this (be it the Upper West Side or Downtown Brooklyn) change the circumstances. Until developers fully realize that most “city malls” aren’t that amazing, we’ll just keep ending up with places like these that are mediocre… Of course, they’ll remain popular because they’re there, and that’s how it is.
1:05:
I’m not sorry about having my birthday at CC. If it’s “ghetto”, it’s only become so in the last 20 years…or maybe it’s a East Coast thing.
Bowling alleys however…(j/k).