'The West Side railyards are the kind of urban development project that makes builders dance in the streets. A footprint bigger than Rockefeller Center's and the potential for more commercial and residential space than ground zero: what more could an urban visionary want?"
"So the five proposals recently unveiled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to develop the 26-acre Manhattan railyards are not just a disappointment for their lack of imagination, they are also a grim referendum on the state of large-scale planning in New York City."