Brooklyn Speaks Website Launches
With the clock ticking on the Atlantic Yards project, a consortium of civic and community groups have teamed up to try to create a third voice in the debate–somewhere in between Forest City Ratner and Develop Don’t Destroy. The team includes, among others, the Atlantic Avenue LDC, the Municipal Arts Society and the Pratt Area…
With the clock ticking on the Atlantic Yards project, a consortium of civic and community groups have teamed up to try to create a third voice in the debate–somewhere in between Forest City Ratner and Develop Don’t Destroy. The team includes, among others, the Atlantic Avenue LDC, the Municipal Arts Society and the Pratt Area Community Council. Brooklyn Speaks’ main complaint is that there has been close to no meaningful input from the the community on the project. The biggest thing going for the group, in our opinion, is the involvement of the Municipal Arts Society, whose critique last month of the project from an urban planning pespective was one of the more intelligent things we’ve read on the subject. And, guess what, they’ve got a blog too!
Welcome to Brooklyn Speaks [BrooklynSpeaks.net]
The city will be destroyed? It’s hyperbole like that, plus your name calling, that accounts for your failure. History has shown that when the public is truly outraged about something it makes damn sure that it is prevented. In this case, few people beyond your bubble share your outrage, and that is why this project will get built.
I don’t think it’s a matter of being sick and tired of the AY debate. I think it’s a matter of being depressed.
It’s so hard to wrap my mind around the idea that someone wants to create a 22 acre high rise complex and a 22,000 seat arena in the midst of low-rise residential neighborhoods. It’s hard to believe that politicians have signed on to create a housing tract that will be twice as dense as the densest housing tract in the entire country, in the midst of brownstone Brooklyn. It’s hard to believe that someone thinks putting an arena and 4,000 parking places at the intersection of three major traffic arteries is a good idea. I can’t believe that 16,000 people are slated to move into this thing, that streets are being demapped for it, superblocks created, and yet there will be no new parks — only highrise courtyards — and no new schools. I’m amazed that the man who brought us Metrotech and Atlantic Center is having extraordinarily valuable real estate plus ample public subsidies handed over to him. It amazes me that this is all being done in the name of “affordable housing”, with a seal of “community approval” affixed to the deal by organizations created and funded by the developer himself. It boggles my mind that the city I have known and loved for over 20 years is going to destroyed by this monstrous development.
Is there really a debate about AY? Is there anything to debate? No, there’s just a-holes like anon at 8:50, and then the rest of us writing letters and giving money to the opposition and praying that someone stop this thing.
D-O-N-E-D-E-A-L!!!
No comments on this thread. Wonder why? Answer: Brooklyn is sick and tired of the AY debate.