Matt Ulman » Atlantic Yards http://matt.ulman.net Sun, 23 May 2010 21:40:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Destroy, Don’t Develop. http://matt.ulman.net/2008/12/11/destroy-dont-develop http://matt.ulman.net/2008/12/11/destroy-dont-develop#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:01:02 +0000 matt drin http://matt.ulman.net/?p=645 After all the time they spent in court defending their plans for condemning people out of their gentrifying homes in a ‘blighted’ neighborhood, it looks like Atlantic Yards is probably dead.  That’s old news and it’s going to leave a huge hole in the middle of Brooklyn.  Maybe in time we’ll fill it in with something less atrocious than Miss Brooklyn, or maybe it’ll just be a junkie’s delight.

But in terms of tear it down & then have developers back out, how about Coney Island?  Coney Island of decades of entertainment for people who can’t afford the Hamptons fame.  Fuck them I guess.  They’ve started dismanteling, but does anyone really think that they’re going to get billions for the plan?  Not going to happen, and we lose the history, the diversion, the fun.  I wonder how the Cyclones will like being the only thing between the projects and the beach?

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