Atlantic Yards Over the Years: A Visual History

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Atlantic Yards Over the Years: aVisual History

Images assembled by Norman Oder,Atlantic Yards Report

AtlanticYardsReport.com


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12/03 site plan, Forest City Ratner

Firstsiteplan,Dec.

03, byForestCity

Ratner


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Official Site Plan, Empire StateDevelopment Corporation, 2006


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Develop Dont Destroy Bklyn Map


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ores y a ner resen a on oCity Council, 2005 (note distance of

Prospect Heights from site)


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FCR slide of 1980s, real blight


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FCRs two malls, new housing


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Atlantic Terminal Urban RenewalArea (ATURA), from 1960s

ATURA in red, AY site blue; eminentdomain battle over properties inblue blocks (not blue/red)


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December 2003 arena rendering

By Frank Gehry


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December 2003 skyline rendering

By Frank Gehry, Williamsburgh Savings Bank at right (east)


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Brooklyn Paper,January 2004

Indy weeklywas sold toRubertMurdochsCNG in2009


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Forest City Ratner Brochure mailedto Brooklynites, May 2004

The quote isfrom HerbertMuschamp,

NYTimesarchitecturecritic

The buildings

would not bethree stories

D l D t D t B kl


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Develop Dont Destroy Brooklyn(DDDB) poster, August 2004


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Summer 2005

Publicationby Forest CityRatner

After secondissue in fall2005, it was

canceled


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July 2005, New Gehry renderingsfrom above


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DDDB addendum, July 2005


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Atlantic Yardsbrochure, May 2006

Where are thetowers? (Smudgybuildings in red, asseen from a satellite)


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Fish-eye lens misleadingly suggestswhole site is a railyard

Brooklyn Views


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Brooklyn Viewsblog (via DDDB),May 2006

Views of FifthAvenue lookingnorth at MissBrooklyn(currently theoffice tower is

on hold)


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Municipal Art Society, June 2006


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July 2006: new Gehry renderings


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July 2006

Flagshiptower=Miss

Brooklyn Gehry calls it

my ego trip

Dean


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DeanStreetscale, 7/06,

ByJonathanBarkey

Lookingnorthwesttoward

DowntownBrooklyn

G h i t B k h t f ESDC


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Dean Street,

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Gehry incorporates Barkeys photo for ESDC


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Possible signage, November 2006


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AtlanticYardsPhotoBook.com


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Photos by Tracy Collins


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Block and Lot Map


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Forest City Ratner Property Map,May 2005


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Forest City Ratner Property Map,August 2008, overstates control


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ESDC Property Map, July 2009,corrects the record


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ESDC 2006 map of properties withone or more blight characteristics


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What if a working railyard doesntactually constitute blight?


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Completion Dates for ProjectBuildings as Estimated in 2006


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Poster byDDDB

Sept. 2006


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January 2007

Barclays buysarena namingrights for areported $400

million. In 2009,we learn that washalved.

First rendering ofproject scale from

street level toappear in anewspaper. It camein an advertisment.


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May 2008: final Gehry designs; noPhase 2 portrayed, nor Site 5 tower


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May 2008, Municipal Art Societyalternative vision: Atlantic Lots


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UNITY Plan,Sept. 2008

Limited torailyard andblocks abovePacific Street.Superblocksgone, newstreets

added.


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June 2009, Ellerbe Becket arena


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Sept. 2009, new skin by SHoP;note vaportecture towers


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Arena image enhanced with traffic


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Will Rooftop Advertising be OK?

Design guidelines say no


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Prospect Heights Historic District,designated in June 2009

SE blockin red:parking lotfor 1000+cars

Wouldprojectremoveblight orcreate it?

Map byTracyCollins

Atlantic Yards Over the Years: A Visual History

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