Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about “Atlantic Yards”

Bruce’s Way

By Streetsblog | Jul 29, 2009 | 11 Comments

Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the organization fighting Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards boondoggle, point us to the latest traffic "mitigation" from the Empire State Development Corporation, pictured above. Over at Pacific Street and Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, the sidewalk has been transformed into a motor vehicle travel lane. DDDB writes: Yes, they’ve turned the sidewalk […]

DOT to Present Ideas for Brooklyn’s Most Notorious Intersection

By Ben Fried | Oct 21, 2008 | 4 Comments

The confluence of Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth Avenues is a traffic nightmare of epic proportions right smack next to a huge transit hub and shopping center. (We hear some sort of arena and housing complex might get built there too.) Crossing the street here is an unwelcome adventure for thousands of pedestrians every day, and […]

Nets Look to Lure Fans With Free Gas

By Brad Aaron | Jun 13, 2008 | 9 Comments

Given the New Jersey Nets’ lackluster season (34-48 record, no playoff berth), the franchise is taking a page from another under-performer to unload tickets for next year. That’s right: buy 2008-2009 season tickets and the Nets will return 10 percent of the cost in the form of "free" gas, which fans will presumably burn up […]

Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?

By Brad Aaron | May 7, 2008 | No Comments

With development projects across the city threatened by an uncertain economy, critics of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project believe that a slowdown in construction could burden Prospect Heights with decades of blight. A slide show by the Municipal Art Society, called "Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots?," offers a bleak look into the future, like this […]

Flatbush and Atlantic: Hellacious, Deadly, Likely to Get Worse

By Brad Aaron | Feb 28, 2008 | 28 Comments

Yesterday Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn posted this photo of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, as seen at 8:45 a.m. "With Atlantic Yards’s 17,000 new residents, and an 18,000 seat arena in use approximately 220 days per year, this gridlock would be the good ol’ days," DDDB said. Without major changes it won’t get better for pedestrians […]

Let’s Chop Up Superblocks

By Alex Marshall | Feb 22, 2008 | 22 Comments

Forest City’s Atlantic Yards project would create two massive superblocks in Prospect Hts., Brooklyn Portland, Oregon, which has ascended the ranks of cities judged most walkable, bikable, and urbane, benefits mightily from its small 200-foot square blocks, which provide businesses more street frontage and people more streets on which to bike, cycle and walk. These […]

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