Gothamist: Atlantic Yards Construction to Start...But Should It?

ohplease

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:48:09 -0500

The Nets suck, and they're losing Kidd any minute so they'll suck even more. Ha.

fgffsddg

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:58:20 -0500

hey chuck, the empire state building, rockefeller center, the chrysler building, the woolworth building, etc. were all private developments.

jibberjabber

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:03:47 -0500

Will idiottes never cease with their internets jibber jabber?!

Billy Bob

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:43:25 -0500

Toby: why don't you move to Newark? You Nimbys never cease. I can't wait to catch DDDB's frontman at a Nets game.

trickydick

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:31:57 -0500

actually, you are being a d**k, because you call this "progress", only a d**k would call this "progress."

chuck

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:25:05 -0500

Right - this is a real estate development, not a public work. This is not another Grand Central Terminal, or Brooklyn Bridge or anything huge and big and worthy of being in NYC. This a basketball arena and some high-rise apartment buildings. If that's "cutting edge" NYC, then maybe we should all move to Boston.

garden statesmen

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:21:41 -0500

Jersey City has been doing just fine in the revitalization vein without AY, thank you very much. As for Newark, they've got a hockey arena going in now, so hey, the Nets can come and play there.

Toby

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:20:56 -0500

The basketball team is Ratner's smoke screen. I have been saying that for I don't know how long. Bringing a pro sports team to Brooklyn was one way to get a certain borough president who's emotional development seems to have stopped in 1957 on board with the project. Can't Ratner go destroy Cleveland and let the Nets play in the Sharpe James Graft Memorial Arena in Newark?

Jo

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:17:56 -0500

The asking price on our brownstone floor thru garden just went up $150K this morning. We live 5 blocks west of the site and couldn't be more pleased the NIMBYs have lost again.

MT

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:16:28 -0500

A: Brooklyn is (or at least was) the 4th largest city in the U.S. Moving there to escape urbanization is a pipe dream. B: We live in George Bush's America. Do you honestly think the constitution is still in effect anywhere? C: We're New Yorkers. Stop being so myopic. If you're so afraid of being trampled by progress, move to Topeka. I'm not saying that to be a d**k. I'm saying it because it is the reality of New York. It's the price you pay for living at the Center Of The Universe. If I ever can't cut it, I'll leave. Until then I won't bitch about it.

andrew

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:10:13 -0500

I don't quite like how the Nets banner is being pulled over this. Bringing another lousy sports team to NYC seems like a pretty flimsy reason to justify this development. Personally, I'd rather see "smart" growth taking place in Brooklyn than the sort of thing that the AY project embodies. If you want to build this sort of thing, why not try revitalizing the Jersey side of the Hudson? Newark or Jersey City would go gaga over this sort of high-profile project.

takinthefifth

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:59:31 -0500

Unless of course, also, you believe that the US Constitution is still valid.

roo

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:48:16 -0500

unless, of course, you live in the brownstones, or moved to the neighborhood for the brownstones, or grew up there loving the human feel of small buildings and big skies, or...basically liked brooklyn as "not manhattan" AY will change the nature of this area, and the people who moved there specifically for those features will move out, and people who love living next to/in huge (and ugly - check the renderings. nothing intrinsically wrong with new stuff, but this is lousy crap) light sculptures, and getting on now overcrowded subways, sending kids to now overcrowded schools and fighting traffic will move right in. And they are welcome to it. All of this subsidized by the you (assuming you actually pay taxes), eminent domain, and all profits to private enterprise. If that's "civic progress", yay.

MT

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:26:20 -0500

I've been noticing more and more than New York is at a critical point in out history. Up to this point we were the most modern, dynamic city in the world bar none. We were the epitome of progress and experimentation and excitement. It seems like we have gotten to the point where we have just enough history behind us to start getting mired in the past. If we let this happen we will lose what is the most New York of all New York traits. Sure it's important to hold on to our past and revere it. But this is New York. We move forward. It's what has defined this city since it's inception 400 years ago. If we take away this ability to be always on the cutting edge we risk becoming just another second city. Let's try to keep some perspective when we decide what should stay and what should go. Grand Central Terminal: stay. A section of random brownstones in Brooklyn: not so much.