Mapping the Atlantic Yards Timeline
No one on either side of the Atlantic Yards debate disputes the fact that its construction would be a major pain in the ass for residents. The question is rather how long people would be inconvenienced for (Chuck Ratner’s on record saying 15 years) and whether the end-product would be worth the inconvenience. To address…
No one on either side of the Atlantic Yards debate disputes the fact that its construction would be a major pain in the ass for residents. The question is rather how long people would be inconvenienced for (Chuck Ratner’s on record saying 15 years) and whether the end-product would be worth the inconvenience. To address the first part of that question, graphic designer Abby Weissman has overlaid the construction schedule with a site map. The result is the clearest representation we’ve seen to date of the timeline. For a bigger version of the map, click on the image above.
The (Projected) Ten-Year Atlantic Yards Timeline [AY Report]
Anon at 11.45, don’t be so quick to make this a racial issue. I’m white, and like I said above, I’m more for than against this development.
However, one thing that I think all the race-baiting people such as yourself should think about is the fact that this development will likely result in much fewer lower income poor black people living in the area as rents will likely rise in all of the low rise brownstone neighborhoods, along with rising home prices in the long term. Actual jobs will not be high paying careers, and the affordable housing component is negligible in the scheme of the entire project in the long term.
Like I said, I’m more for than against the project, but to cast aspersions against people protesting AY just because they are white actually may be counter-productive to preserving low income black neighborhoods in the surrounding area.
If you do not think that the surrounding area will only become more expensive as a result of the AY development in the long term, fine. However, there is no need to make the protesters race a base line issue. And for what it’s worth, Tish James and other council members in the area, who are black, as well as many of my neighbors, who are black, oppose the development for various reasons. Implying that anti-AY people are anti-black is not only likely inaccurate, but it is not well thought out and serves to skirt the realities of how this project will affect the make-up of the neighborhood in 20 years.
From a tepid supporter of the AY development.
Queens comes to Brooklyn! Get ready for Pizza Huts, TGIF’s, KYC’s. Say goodbye to our wonderful quirky neighborhood.
Oh yes, the sky is falling. Terrorist atacks, sewage, glaring metal, puking basketball fans, and ambulances entangles in traffic jams. You people need to get a life! Drama Queens!
By the way, check out the photo of the “footprint plaintiffs” on nolandgrab today. A sea of white faces. I thought that this was such a diverse bunch?
Why isn’t Dan Goldstein’s eviction posted on the chart?
This is a tax-payer funded nightmare. Why on earth couldn’t the development have been on a scale that would have actually enhanced the area and not just maximized Ratner’s profit? Our politicians got bought and paid for. Time for some new ones I say.
ONLY 9 years? Have you lived through something like ConEd doing work in your hood for 2 days? It’s miserable. 9 years is going to be eternity..
There’s no way in hell all of that is going to be built in 9 years. FCRC took more than twice as long to put up Metrotech as they said they would. There’s going to be a massive surface parking lot in Prospect Heights for decades to come.
lp objects to the use of eminent domain, massive scale, and lack of planning re: traffic, sewage, schools, etc., and yet concludes that s/he’s “more for it than against it”!
It’s so sad — we could have had something really good in Prospect Heights. Instead we’re going to get a glass high rise enclave dividing Fort Green from Prospect Heights forever.
That’s what this is, a residential development with the Arena as some sort of rallying point. This is about residential condo development (with some retail presumably on some bottom floors) and maybe some office space as I understand it. I don’t have a problem with that, I just object to the use (or threat of, which can equate to the same thing) of eminent domain, the massive scale and the lack of planning from a traffic, environmental (utilities, sewage, police, fire) and schools perspective. Overall, I’m more for it than against it – it will increase property values in the long term imo – instant gentrification.
Fair point, I was just looking at the dates on the map above.