Atlantic Yards Shutterbugs Meet Up
About two dozen photographers gathered yesterday afternoon to take photos of the Atlantic Yards footprint. The Atlantic Yards Camera Club meeting was inspired by the recent experience of videographer Katherin McInnis, who says an MTA cop harassed her—allegedly trying to confiscate her camera—while she was taking pictures around AY. No Land Grab has a summary…
About two dozen photographers gathered yesterday afternoon to take photos of the Atlantic Yards footprint. The Atlantic Yards Camera Club meeting was inspired by the recent experience of videographer Katherin McInnis, who says an MTA cop harassed her—allegedly trying to confiscate her camera—while she was taking pictures around AY. No Land Grab has a summary of yesterday’s events, and blogs including Brit in Brooklyn, Dope on the Slope, and Flatbush Gardener have posted some of the photos they snapped. MTA police apparently circled the footprint in a cruiser but didn’t mess with the photographers.
Atlantic Yards Camera Club [No Land Grab]
MTA Cop Tries to Stop Videographer at AY Site [AY Report]
First photo by Dope on the Slope; second and third by Flatbush Gardener.
Were your feelings hurt? Well too bad. I am sure it was all done for your safety. Did you forget about 9/11. Grow up and knock off the nonsense! I have been told that the MTA Police Dept. is one of the best in the entire state. Enough already with this!
It’s funny how whenever the small turnouts are mentioned, the inevitable reply is to simply state that the turnout was, in fact, impressive.
DOORNAIL.
I walked from the PSFC over the 6th Ave Bridge yesterday heading back to FG right as the snow squalled through and the high winds kicked up.
By the look of the photos of the weather, I was there at the same time these guys were.
The wind was HORRIBLE! This has always, always, always been something I have pointed out regarding this Forest-City of towers they want to build. The environmental studies regarding wind are nearly nil. Towers are going to make it more horrendous than it already gets. The wind wasn’t half as bad on 6th Ave in Park Slope or on the other side deeper into FG. It was horrible off of Flatbush and into PH and the footprint of the proposed project. It’s just a result of the lay of the land. This same wind whips up Hanson and FCR’s current buildings there didn’t help with Hanson’s wind tunnel effect. They basically closed it in permanently.
I was nearly air-surfing and with all my coop shopping was probably 250 lbs or so…high winds! Had to lean deep into the wind. It was terrible at 4pm or so at that spot way before the high winds picked up in the later evening all over NYC.
I can’t believe these guys made it out there yesterday with the subzero wind chill. Anyway, as said above, it wasn’t an anti-AY event.
It wasn’t an anti-AY event, and it wasn’t intended to draw hundreds of people. It was for photographers who live and take pictures in the immediate area, which is a relatively small group. In fact, it’s amazing that 25 showed up on such a bitterly cold and windy day.
“If you put a girl in a bikini in your pictures, they will be much more interesting.”
And relevant.
If you put a girl in a bikini in your pictures, they will be much more interesting.
I’m pretty sure all the photographers [myself included] were opposed to AY, BUT the point was about photographers’ rights–the well-established right to photograph ANYTHING, as long as you’re doing so from a public space.
BTW, I’m in the center right of Flatbush Gardener’s last people photograph–the fat old white guy with dark glasses and a mustache. I made exactly one exposure [too cold and snowy] but will return with a tripod to do it right.
Thanks for the clarification. TWO dozen instead of a dozen makes a world of difference. In fact, this constitutes a REVOLUTION! Unfortunately, this reduces the percentage of black attendees. Just when I thought that the anti-AY movement was finally achieving some diversity…
Look out Ratner, because these two dozen people are going to block this project. They cannot be stopped.
I think that there are yards here. Aren’t they called the Vanderbilt Yards?
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!