The Walling Off Begins
Tracy Collins, who’s been documenting the Atlantic Yards saga religiously for the last several years, put together this video (which also appeared on Atlantic Yards Report) of Ratner beginning to wall off the Atlantic Yards site from prying eyes.
Tracy Collins, who’s been documenting the Atlantic Yards saga religiously for the last several years, put together this video (which also appeared on Atlantic Yards Report) of Ratner beginning to wall off the Atlantic Yards site from prying eyes.
Yes, it is true, babs, you moron. The spalding factory is hideoous and so was the Ward (thank God it’s gone). Dan “Sellout” Goldstein’s building is also unremarkable, if not ugly.
#ratnerrules
You know that’s totally untrue. The next block of Dean contains some very cute frame houses, the Spalding Factory on the corner of Pacific and Sixth Ave. is also historic and attractive, as is 636 Pacific St. (Dan Goldstein’s former residence) and there also was Ward’s Bakery, the largest terra cotta building extant in the US before the Rat smashed it (and didn’t let anyone salvage anything so don’t get your hopes up here). #ratnersux
This block is the only scenic one in the entire footprint. Brownstoner could just as easily have shown the others, which depict ugly, rundown buildings or underutilized railyards.
Either way, this project is moving forward, thanks to sellout Goldstein’s inept handling of the opposition.
The cornices are in great shape and are very expensive to reproduce. There are many “scalped” buildings in my neighborhood deprived of thier crowns- through rot and neglect. How can I get them? Free stuff on Craig’s list I guess for fence jumping preservationists with cherry pickers and a lawless streak. I’m not equipped these days.
Look at those horrible, ugly, blighted houses – they would be worth only about 1.5 million today, but for Atlantic Yards. I mean *everyone* knows that a house must be worth at least 2 or 3 million to be inhabitable. Everything else is just blight and should be knocked down.
Bring on the poorly designed, and ugly new buildings!!!
That’s what I’m talking about Rookie! Enough with the whining – time for some b-ball!
seems like a pretty inefficient operation. how many guys does it take to put up a sidewall barricade? I see a lot of walking back and forth and in and out of the houses and no work. If this is the sort of thing we can expect, the arena will not open until the twenty-second century.
Bring it on, boys…
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/2010/05/20/2010-05-20_mikhail_prokhorov_mayor_michael_bloomberg_jay_z.html
Don’t worry Slopefarm — it’ll look nice and blighty soon enough.