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.
The financial viability is still sound, because we’re giving Ratner $2 billion. On a $4 billion project that’s a corporate welfare deal that would make Halliburton blush.
No, that would be the developer.
If it’s A-yards then will the result of the digging be called the A-hole?
GO NETS!!!
“There is no “yards” to be photographed, because nothing has been built.”
So, uh what the hell were you guys supposed to be doing?
From the Brooklyn Paper:
“It’s official, direct from Forest City Ratner Companies: the Atlantic Yards developer is a liar.
Forest City Ratner now admits that its claim of a tax revenue windfall — a justification for the government’s support of the $4 billion project — was actually concocted by Ratner’s paid consultant, and was not based on an analysis by state officials as the developer repeatedly claimed.”
There were TWO dozen people, not a dozen. In zero-windchill weather. If the weather had been better we would have spent more time in discussion on the sidewalk.
There are so many shots of the people attending because that was the event: the meet-up. And there are shots of the tracks, and the now-vacant land where buildings have been razed. The center photograph above is one such photo: there used to be buildings on that empty lot surrounded by orange construction fencing. There is no “yards” to be photographed, because nothing has been built.
They didn’t have to take pictures. I could have told them what the site looks like: virtually the same as has for the last 40 years.
Nice fantasy there, 1:59.
D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L!!!