Ratner's Un-Fab Towers

Only days after being sued by disgruntled construction workers for undelivered jobs and wages, Bruce Ratner throws another shrimp on the fuck-you-Brooklyn-barbie pit he calls the Atlantic Yards. Representatives of Ratner's firm released some stank ass pictures by SHoP architects revealing the first of a few towers planned around the Barclay Center. And here's the kicker: they're all pre-fab modular towers. That means they're made in smaller modular units in a factory, then transported to the Atlantic yards, where they will be bolted into place. Sort of like Legos, but not nearly as cool. 

The first of the towers will be 32 stories tall and made up of 930 of these modular boxes. One of the later towers could raise as high as 50 stories, making it the tallest modular tower ever built -- or the tallest middle finger to all those who initially backed this project because Bruce promised A) Frank Gehry, and B) Union jobs. Let us address each of these factors.

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Must See: Battle For Brooklyn

Photo: Tracy CollinsAfter eight years of filming over 500 hours of footage, filmmakers Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky have chronicled the ultimate "If you see something, say something" in their rightfully raved about film, Battle For Brooklyn.

When the Atlantic Yards Project was announced back in 2003, there were mixed emotions about the proposed 16 skyscrapers and a large sports arena that many of us have now come to loathe. Sadly, our community was divided. While many strongly opposed the looming eviction of nearly 1,600 tenants whose property fell into the footprint of the design plan, some residents supported the project for the promise of jobs and the excitement of having a major sports team in our neighborhood.

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8 Balling a Baller's Paradise: Amex Presale for Barclay Center Announced

According to BumperShine, American Express is having a pre-sale for an All-Access Pass to the Nets 2012-2013 season in their new stadium, the Barclay Center (or as I like to call it: the giant steel shit Bruce Ratner took on us all). And there is an actual date! September 28, 2012!

 

Just look at these frightening renderings. Don't you love all those life-like weird looking people superimposed over computer images of what looks like the cafe at Ikea redone 5 different ways? On what planet does any of this look appealing? And all for the Nets? Really, the Nets? I was born and raised in NJ and I moved to Brooklyn to run away from the embarrassment of Jersey disasters like the Nets and big hair. Why don't we just build a stadium for bed bugs? At least they're good at what they do.

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Drunken Nets Fans Are Totally Gonna Pee All Over Your Stoop

If you're like me, you're SUPER PSYCHED about the impending opening of the Barclays Center. It's going to be awesomesauce, right?!!!

Just think of all the countless jobs it's going to pump into the Brooklyn economy. You'll be able to get a sweet job serving beers & pretzels & whatever other hip modern cuisine they add to the menu to all the Barclays Center patrons! OR you can have a bright future in the exciting field of event security! I'm pretty sure you don't even have to waste precious hundreds of thousands of dollars on college degrees to get either of those jobs. WIN WIN for you, Jones!

Will the arena bring crime & traffic & hooliganism & whatnot to the area? Fuck yeah it will. Enraged Park Slope Resident Joe Imadehimup was quoted as saying, "Blah blah blah. Ruining the neighborhood. Robert Moses redux blah."

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Freddy's Bar Re-Opens in South Slope

Freddy’s, a beloved dive bar shoved out of Dean Street by Bruce Ratner’s dick, gets reborn today in South Slope in the old Ellis bar space at 627 5th Ave (between 17th and 18th).

It joins a friendly little family of bars—literally: the owners of Black Horse, South, Buttermilk, et al. are all best buds and frequent each others’ places...which you might notice if you also liquor up there. It’s really kind of cute. I imagine Freddy’s will do the same, or risk shunning by the in-crowd. The new owners are former employees of the old place, but they’ve got the same name and a lot of the old interior (including the "chains of justice" used in the Atlantic Yards fight).

Anyway, a big old dive party happens today, Friday the 4th, with music, art and probably a lot of people slant rhyming “Bruce” with a female hygienic device.

(via Brooklyn Based)