Well, Boston thinks it’s a good idea! Normally, such a sentiment wouldn’t hold sway here in the big city, but since that’s referring to the Big Dig, we’re supposed to be all impressed, just like we were supposed to be when Robert Moses told us it was such a great idea to build all this shit in the first place. The Old Gray Lady does her usual PR/Google placement service by listing bunches of people she knows, or at least met at parties, most prominently SHoP (that’s a bunch of people named Sharples who designed the Porter House and the new bridges over West Street), who are talking about dismantling the lower section of the FDR (south of the Brooklyn Bridge), so that the most desolate stretch of lower Manhattan can be reunited with the most desolate stretch of waterfront south of 96th Street. Of course, the plans don’t end there. Expect all manner of zooty renderings from cleverly-named architects to distract us while the backrooom workings are set in place to produce another pukingly ugly development. You’re co-opted(tm)!
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The big, bad FDR.
Well, Boston thinks it’s a good idea! Normally, such a sentiment wouldn’t hold sway here in the big city, but since that’s referring to the Big Dig, we’re supposed to be all impressed, just like we were supposed to be when Robert Moses told us it was such a great idea to build all this shit in the first place. The Old Gray Lady does her usual PR/Google placement service by listing bunches of people she knows, or at least met at parties, most prominently SHoP (that’s a bunch of people named Sharples who designed the Porter House and the new bridges over West Street), who are talking about dismantling the lower section of the FDR (south of the Brooklyn Bridge), so that the most desolate stretch of lower Manhattan can be reunited with the most desolate stretch of waterfront south of 96th Street. Of course, the plans don’t end there. Expect all manner of zooty renderings from cleverly-named architects to distract us while the backrooom workings are set in place to produce another pukingly ugly development. You’re co-opted(tm)!