“Atlantic Yards”
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Atlantic Yards Planner: “Space on Streets is Useless Space”
In this week's New York Observer, Matthew Schuerman talks at length with Laurie Olin, the landscape architect who may or may not have been teamed up with starchitect Frank Gehry on Forest City Enterprise's Atlantic Yards project "to compensate for Mr. Gehry's reputed lack of urban-planning skills." Schuerman writes:
February 22, 2007
Will “Atlantic Yards” Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link?
The Atlantic Yards plan superimposed on the released JFK-to-Lower Manhattan rail link study (PDF docs). Click here for a much bigger map.
February 20, 2007
Eyes on the Most Powerful Man in New York State Gov’t
NoLandGrab is now reporting that Sheldon Silver is now expected to vote to approve Atlantic Yards today.
December 20, 2006
Did a Blogger’s Big Scoop Stall “Atlantic Yards?”
NY1 is reporting a rumor that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will not vote to approve Forest City Ratner's Atlantic Yards development project at tomorrow's three-men-in-a-room meeting of the Public Authorities Control Board. (Amazingly, this one meeting constitutes the only legislative "debate" and vote that this massive project will ever see). NY1 reports:
December 19, 2006
A Parking Lot Grows in Brooklyn
Norman "the Human Tape Rec'oder" Oder , the hardest working advocacy journalist in New York City, has really been digging in to the important but not-particularly-sexy issue of parking policy at Forest City Enterprise's proposed "Atlantic Yards" development in Brooklyn.
December 6, 2006
What Went Wrong With “Atlantic Yards?”
An Interview With Kent Barwick, President of the Municipal Art Society
November 29, 2006
DOT Announces Five Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Sketches from an internal BRT Study depicting the three general types of stations: A) Major Station: Includes extended canopy with windscreens and seating. Icon and full platform pavement treatment. B) Standard Station: Shelter with Icon and full platform pavement treatment. C) Minimum Station: For locations with narrow sidewalks: Icon and platform edge strip only. Bigger image here.
October 24, 2006
Dead Ball
Whatever you think of the idea of a highrise cluster in Downtown Brooklyn, you have to worry that the sponsors of the Atlantic Yards project suggest that creating jobs and housing justifies the kind of planning that discourages street life. Among the lowlights of the marathon August 23 "public hearing" on the draft Environmental Impact Statement covering the Atlantic Yards, consider these signs:
August 29, 2006
“Atlantic Yards” Public Hearing
Wednesday, August 23, 2006, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.New York City Technical College (Klitgord Auditorium)285 Jay Street, Brooklyn
August 23, 2006
Having it Both Ways in the “Atlantic Yards” DEIS
Combing through the massive Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the "Atlantic Yards" project in Brooklyn, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign has found at least four instances of the strange, Hamlet-like soliloquy, exemplified below.
August 14, 2006