May 24, 2006
Knitters for Jane Jacobs
Last night, there was a knit-in to honor Jane Jacobs' spirit. Per massive knit nyc, the event was to knit together a structure in the park and to remember "Jane Jacobs, who was crucial in preventing an expressway from being built through Washington Square Park." Boss Tweed sent us this photograph of knitters starting - did anyone participate or see the structure at the end? And here's a site on more recent park issues: Preserve Washington Square Park.
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I saw a couple of knitters stealing a car last night.
that's awesome.
long live jane jacobs' spirit.
i was referring to the knitting in the park, not the car stealing in case it needed any clarification.
It's too bad Jane never officially commented on Atlantic Yards. Surely she would have been aghast at that monstrosity, as destructive in its own right as the Lower Manhattan Expressway would have been. A little searching shows that a couple of architecture critics agree that she would have hated it.
I bet she also hated people putting words in her mouth and using "what Jane Jacobs would have thought" as an argument in her name.
I'd be happy to accept your opinion if you can come up with any citations or even any legitimate reasoning why she would support a giant development like this. From the sound of it, you have never read her book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," which she continued to reiterate and take pride in in interviews as late as 2001. Unless she did a complete about-face in her final years, she remained a stalwart opponent of grand "urban renewal" schemes.
People are getting thrown out of their homes. That would have been enough for our beloved Jane.
It should be enough for anyone.