One Prospect Park is going to be huge

i was walking by there last night around 7:45 after my run in the park and they were having this big party inside the structure. there were spotlights a red carpet and a live band playing on the ground level. people were also being taken up to the top floor on the service elevator. i guess it was a promotional party to show off how the building is coming along. no affordable housing in that bad boy for damn sure.

it was really kind of weird, nothing but rich white people in suits walking in and out. and there were these banner ads hanging from the facade that said "your garden" with an icon of the park entrance under it, and " your library" with an icon of the BPL under that.

if you stood in the right spot you could almost smell the gentrification.

SevenOneEighty wrote:
Could someone post a picture, my camera is broken ?

(just had my cellphone camera)

I put a couple of slightly different views at
http://www.panix.com/~steveo/hiptop/glass/

jgregorie wrote: if you stood in the right spot you could almost smell the gentrification.

Sorry, that was me -- I took a whiz by the entrance.

an absolute corruption of our architectural culture as we knew it. What ever happened to design standards? That modern monolith is an open sore on the architectural dermis of PH/PS.

I look out of my office window daily watching Ian Schrager's 40 Bond Street luxuary condos go up and I get sick and pissed at the same time. I hate these structures with a passion. At 40 Bond Herzog & de Meuron has done its radical best to make never trendy Noho trendy, with an 11-story facade made entirely of cast glass with a greenish Coke-bottle hue.

I hope the glass implodes.

I just have to note that the construction of a fifteen story building has now engendered a long discussion and various shades of concern and outrage on this newsgroup.

Atlantic Yards will make us long for the days when fifteen stories was "tall". The lovely "Miss Brooklyn" alone will be four times as high, and all of the other fifteen or so buildings will also be considerably taller than the Meier.

Fortunately it's not too late to bring some sanity to Atlantic Yards. Make sure to vote on Primary Day for (depending on your district) Batson, Owens, Montgomery, Barron and Diamondstone.

I appreciate your point here because Yassky's good on most other issues and indeed won't have anything but a bully pulpit role on AY, if that. My decision for Owens was based on two things: one, this election will be seen as a referendum on AY, and if Owens wins that sends a message to local politicos. (I think Owens is also basically fine on the national issues, although certainly not the smooth politicial pro that Yassky is.) And two, Yassky is clearly quite cozy with big dollar donors in NYC (his city council effort to help Ratner fund BUILD, for example). We certainly don't need any more of that fondness for large-dollar contributors in DC.