Tuesday Links
Boy, 11, Is Shot in Head at Brooklyn Ball Field [NY Times] Brooklyn Guy Makes Pizza Pies Fly [NY Times] Cops Shoot Pitbull at Brooklyn Housing Project [NY Daily News] Seth Pinsky on Coney Redevelopment Plan [NY Daily News] Governors Island Ferry Service Returned on Saturday [NY Daily News] KC Aechitecture Firm Snares Brooklyn Arena…
Boy, 11, Is Shot in Head at Brooklyn Ball Field [NY Times]
Brooklyn Guy Makes Pizza Pies Fly [NY Times]
Cops Shoot Pitbull at Brooklyn Housing Project [NY Daily News]
Seth Pinsky on Coney Redevelopment Plan [NY Daily News]
Governors Island Ferry Service Returned on Saturday [NY Daily News]
KC Aechitecture Firm Snares Brooklyn Arena Project [KC Star]
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Thank god that kid wasn’t killed. Crazy!
Agree, noki! My objections to AY are about scale and size. the arena was the most interesting part and supposedly what ratner used to promote AY. And I’m sure Ratner will will now flog us with blame for not being able to use the Gehry design. What better way than to put up an arena straight out of the worst of Soviet Russian design?.
There’s an extra “l” at the end or the url for the 1st story.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/nyregion/09boy.html
Looks like Mr. B just provided more information in the next thread.
I thought the Gehry design was great.
Noki, do you have more background and context (e.g., pictures, location, etc.)?
To hell with the Nets, bring back the Dodgers 39/20.
Oh. I forgot to say, I agree so completely as to be nearly shaking from my head nodding. And my feelings about it are so strong that it is one of the reasons I (and I think some others, like Bxgrl) get so ticked off by folks like 11217 and others who dismiss our dismay as ridiculousness, and hey, do we prefer a big hole in the street? Well, given that a hole is a blank canvas upon which to be built, YES.
I just had to paste this because I’m so angry I’m almost sick:
“A new design by the firm Ellerbe Becket has no such ambitions. A colossal, spiritless box, it would fit more comfortably in a cornfield than at one of the busiest intersections of a vibrant metropolis. Its low-budget, no-frills design embodies the crass, bottom-line mentality that puts personal profit above the public good. If it is ever built, it will create a black hole in the heart of a vital neighborhood.
But what’s most offensive about the design is the message it sends to New Yorkers. Architecture, we are being told, is something decorative and expendable, a luxury we can afford only in good times, or if we happen to be very rich. What’s most important is to build, no matter how thoughtless or dehumanizing the results. It is the kind of logic that kills cities — and that has been poisoning this one for decades.
I suppose we should have seen this coming.” (Aroussoff for the New York Times)