Instant Skyline For Brooklyn

7 July 2005 - 9:00am

Frank Gehry-designed project will add 17 skyscrapers creating a dense urban skyline in Brooklyn, NY.

"The massive building plan surrounding a new Nets arena east of Downtown Brooklyn will include a ridge of a half-dozen skyscrapers as high as 60 stories sweeping down Atlantic Avenue, along with four towers circling the basketball arena, according to new designs completed by the developer Bruce C. Ratner and the architect Frank Gehry...With 17 buildings, many of them soaring 40 to 50 stories, the project would forever transform the borough and its often-intimate landscape, creating a dense urban skyline reminiscent of Houston or Dallas."

Source: The New York Times, July 6, 2005
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Maybe we should blame Thomas Jefferson. He was the godfather of the urban sprawl racket in America.