Comments on: The Evening Dig: Atlantic Yards Victory Edition

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:39:31 +0000

Andrew: Bruce Ratner likes the project - he got the yards for half the assessed market value, and is now going to pay in small installments over 10 years. Everyone who’s connected to Ratner, including Bloomberg, likes the project as well. It’s just the people who actually have to live in New York’s neighborhoods who don’t like it.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:05:11 +0000

Thanks for the Boston update. Figures that I’m no longer living in that city.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:29:05 +0000

Austin has innovative transportation? There’s the city buses and a single light rail line which hasn’t opened yet…surely you dont mean the double decker highway which still today racially segregates the city

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:31:08 +0000

Ick. Does *anybody* like the Atlantic Yards project?

By: db

db — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:27:28 +0000

It seems to me that the Brooklyn residents may be more upset about having their property taken away from them than about the name calling, and rightly so. These types of projects do not have a good track record of actually delivering on the promised density and economic development. Often they fail and actually destroy the existent economic value of the community. And even the projects that don’t fail outright almost always take from modest home/business owners and give to wealthy well-connected developers. The Atlantic Yards project is one of the most repugnant examples of this type of reverse Robin Hood abuse. Victory indeed.