Another Case of the Blahs Near Atlantic Yards

With a few minutes to kill while having some graffiti buffed out of the side of our car on Saturday, we took a stroll around the area that may or may not be the future home of the Nets. Only half a block away from the car wash, we noticed that this new building was approaching completion. We were a little surprised to see it on what is otherwise a fairly unresidential block on Vanderbilt between Atlantic and Fulton, so we snapped a photo. Unfortunately, it looks to be yet another addition to Brooklyn’s bland building boom. Granted, the site’s proximity to the commercial thoroughfare of Atlantic Avenue does not make it a likely candidate for anything too expensive, but we can’t shake this nagging feeling that developers could be doing a lot more within the same budgetary constraints. GMAP