Endangered AY
This morning the Times has a couple articles about Atlantic Yards that more or less boil down to the following: Aspects of the mega-project aside from the Nets arena are likely to be delayed or go unrealized; Forest City Ratner has not been able to lure an anchor tenant to Miss Brooklyn, his planned office…
This morning the Times has a couple articles about Atlantic Yards that more or less boil down to the following: Aspects of the mega-project aside from the Nets arena are likely to be delayed or go unrealized; Forest City Ratner has not been able to lure an anchor tenant to Miss Brooklyn, his planned office tower; and Frank Gehry’s overarching vision for AY will be severely compromised if all that’s built is the arena. In one article, Charles Bagli includes snippets of an interview with Bruce Ratner in which the developer concedes that construction of Miss Brooklyn will not begin until a tenant has been secured for the office tower; Bagli also notes that the three residential towers surrounding the arena, which are slated to have 1,000 units of housing—including many affordable units—may not happen anytime soon, since developers are finding financing harder to come by. Ratner still sounds cautiously optimistic about the first phase of AY, though. It’s not going to happen in a nanosecond, he tells the Times. I hope it’s not going to be drawn out. I’d hope that the first residential building will be done within six months of the opening of the arena, and a second one a year after that. In the second article, architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff says the possibility that all we’ll be left with is a Nets arena “feels like a betrayal of the public trust.” Ouroussoff calls on Frank Gehry to walk away from the entire development: “by pulling out he would be expressing a simple truth: At this point the Atlantic Yards development has nothing to do with the project that New Yorkers were promised. Nor does it rise to the standards Mr. Gehry has set for himself during a remarkable career.”
Slow Economy Likely to Stall Atlantic Yards [NY Times]
What Will Be Left of Gehry’s Vision for Brooklyn? [NY Times]
Ratner Admits Major AY Delays, Rising Arena Cost [AY Report]
Miss Brooklyn & Housing to Die as Arena Lives? [GL]
Bullet Points of Bagli Article [No Land Grab]
Photo by threecee.
Brownstoner needs a spell check feature.
you know you could build a school some stores and affordable housing and still have jobs…why on earth does errol louis think the only way to create jobs is to build a stadium over where other people lived? I mean really, can he be that stupid?
Building anything would bring jobs, to think only building for ratner brings jobs…his ass is so far up Ratners. To say people who don’t like this idiotic project are people who don’t want others to have jobs…is like saying pro choice people hate babies.
idyot!
It’s a lovely sunny day out there folks. Go out and take a walk.
Fuckin bitches bitchin’ about bigger boxes and little boxes but you all look the same. Build AY already. Guess twat, people complained about the World Trade Center before and everything else being built, now you hate the big whole in the sky, even memorialize it. Hipocrates all. Boring weekend… Rattner’s kin
Fuckin bitches bitchin’ about bigger boxes and little boxes but you all look the same. Build AY already. Guess twat people complained about the World Trade Center before and everything else going up, now you hate the big whole in the sky. even memorialize it. Hipocrates all. Boring weekend.
The emotion felt by some of us who have lived here many years as PH slowly became a better place to live was that we never got any public money, never any support from the government. It was individual families and small time landlords who renovated,invested and built the area up. There was no redevelopment money, no help. We were PS’s stepchild and at the end of CB8 which covers a swath of neighborhoods down to Ralph ave (I believe). Now, as we are perceived to have more value, slime like Ratner rush in and try to overwhelm PH with oversized, high density building, with no care for infrastructure or the quality of life of those who live here. He is just a businessman trying to maximize profits, but don’t ever think of him as a benevolent figure, or one who is trying to improve the life of the city -even with those ridiculous Gerhy buildings. He is scum and AY should not be built. Look to alternatives like Extell if you are in favor of development there.
“And what magically changed in 1990 in Brooklyn pray tell?”
much less crack
I love when people try to “break it down” for the rest of us, like there is thanks.
who needs meds when you can mouth off on brownstoner!
I’m not too young to remember — I’ve lived in Brooklyn from 1981 on. I loved it then and I love it now and that is why I am totally opposed to Bruce Ratner’s horror show that belongs back in Cleveland where he came from.
And what magically changed in 1990 in Brooklyn pray tell?
There are a flock of black swans flying over Atlantic Yards! I still think it’s dead, over and kaput! I think people better worry about the economy! We have a long way to go!
Black swan theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
The term black swan comes from the ancient Western conception that ‘All swans are white’. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could not exist. The 17th Century discovery of black swans in Australia metamorphosed the term to connote that the perceived impossibility actually came to pass.
Yep, “it’s different this time” is going to fuck up the ucktards who believe this shit! RIP Atlantic Yards!
The What (Fuck you from Lodi NJ LMMFAO)
Someday this is gonna end….