14 Forest City Ratner is the corporate name.
15 Michael Shapiro’s book The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together details this sorry chapter of Moses history. Moses wanted O’Malley to build in far-out, less accessible Brooklyn. O’Malley pleaded for this site and finally left town, a major crush for the borough.
16 The influx of white residents should not be interpreted as a necessary ingredient for neighborhood stability.
17 Charles V. Bagli, “Residents Guarding Their Homes Against the Bulldozer,” New York Times, January 23, 2004.
18 Sam Goldsmith, “City: Ward’s Bakery Is Not a Landmark,” Brooklyn Paper, March 7, 2007.
19 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
20 First coined by architect Carl Olifant.
21 Chris Smith, “Mr. Ratner’s Neighborhood.”
22 Also a Ratner project in downtown Brooklyn.
23 Nicolai Ouroussoff, “What Will Be Left of Gehry’s Vision for Brooklyn?” New York Times, March 21, 2008.
24 Truck deliveries, garbage removal, building infrastructure, parking.
25 Community-impact packages, offering benefits to the area, are put forth while the basic plan remains unchanged.
26 The New York State Court of Appeals ruled in December 2009 that the state could not use eminent domain on behalf of Columbia’s expansion plan. The blight designation was “mere sophistry” about a neighborhood already undergoing organic rejuvenation, the court found. “Even a cursory examination of the study reveals the idiocy of considering things like unpainted block walls or loose awning supports as evidence of a blighted neighborhood,” the opinion noted. The state hired the same consultant as Columbia for its determination of blight. Also, both city and state agencies, the court found, erroneously claimed a public purpose for the rezoning that paved the way for Columbia to annex the area for an obviously private development. The clear message that no civic purpose was being served by the use of eminent domain could influence future attempts to use this power to condemn and take over private property.
27 I am indebted to Dr. Tom Angotti and his Hunter College research team for their excellent, thorough Willets Point Land Use Study, April 2006. Much of the statistical information included here is drawn from that study that included a door-to-door survey of the site. Research assistants included Diana Marcela Perez and Joan April Suwalsky.
28 PUKAR stands for Partners for Urban Knowledge and Research.
29 Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, “Taking the Slum Out of ‘Slumdog,’” New York Times, February 21, 2009.
30 The idea that Jane might advocate for a six-story building to be built adjacent to my twenty-one-story apartment house or elsewhere in my neighborhood of twenty- to thirty-story buildings is ludicrous.
EPILOGUE
1 That long-standing saga is detailed in both of my earlier books.
2 A smaller sanctuary.
3 We had three early benefactors: the late Joy Ungerleider Mayerson, who had led the rejuvenation of the Jewish Museum uptown; Joan K. Davidson, then head of the J. M. Kaplan Fund; and the late Brook Astor, head of the Astor Foundation. Davidson and Astor were the most reliable funders of new, innovative New York City cultural projects, the venture capitalists of NYC philanthropy. Many of today’s organizations were nurtured by them. Mayerson was passionately committed to Jewish and cultural programs.
4 Years after she began this job, Jill joined in partnership with Walter Sedvic. Together, they have been leaders of the now popular techniques of green preservation.
5 Our owner’s rep, architect Diane Kaese, and project manager, Terry Higgins, were immensely helpful.
6 Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
7 The EPA has noted that demolition and construction debris constitutes around a third of all waste generated in this country, and has projected that more than 27 percent of existing buildings will be replaced between 2000 and 2030. In New York City, 60 percent of the waste stream is demolition and construction debris.
8 Bryan Walsh, “Greening This Old House: Saving Money and the Planet by Upgrading Older Homes.”
9 For a fuller discussion of this issue, see my chapter “Jane Jacobs: Environmental Preservationist, Preservation Environmentalist,” in What We See.
10 Malkin is president of Wien & Malkin, supervisor of the building on behalf of the owners, the Malkin family and the Helmsley estate.
11 Public policy often works against doing the right thing. In New York State, for example, state grants are available to low-income property owners for window replacement but not window repair, weatherization, or storm-window installation.
12 Remarks delivered at Michigan Historic Preservation Network, Grand Rapids, May 15, 2009.
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Index
Abrams, Charles
Ad hoc
Adaptations
Age of Mass Transit
Agglomeration
Agriculture
sustainable
urban
AIA Guide to New York (White and Willensky)
Alioto, Joseph
Allen, Woody
Alphabet City
Alternatives
Ameliorations
Association of Neighborhood Housing Developers
Astor Hotel
Astoria
Atlantic Arts Building
Atlantic Center
Atlantic Terminal
Atlantic Yards
blight and
fighting
Jacobs and
Authentic urban process
Automobile capacity
Automobile industry
Automobiles
tide against
Avery, Milton
Back to City Conference
Back-to-the-City Movement
Bagli, Charles V.
Balanced transportation system
Baltimore
highways for
Banana Kelly
Barwick, Kent
Battery Park
Battery Park City
Bautista, Eddie
Bay Ridge, dislocation impacts of
Beame, Abraham
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration
Bel Geddes, Norman
Benepe, Barry
Benstock, Marcy
Berman, Marshall
Bicycles
“Big Apple” campaign
Big box retail
Big Clog
Big Dig
Big projects
Bleecker Street
Blight
Blockbusting
Bloomberg, Michael
affordable housing and
on buildings/energy consumption
Jacobs letter to
Third Water Tunnel and
transit and
Tweed Courthouse and
Board of Education
Board of Estimate
Bobst Library (NYU)
Bollinger, Lee 290
Boston
Big Dig and
transit in
Boulevards
Brandes, Larry
Brandes, Paula
Brennan, Peter
Breslin, Jimmy
Breuer, Marcel
Broadway
Brokaw Mansions
Bronx
burning of
gardens in
industry in
water-filtration plant in
Yankee Stadium and
Bronx River
Bronx River Alliance
Bronx River Greenway
Brooklyn
clearance and
density of
gardens in
parks in
problems in
restoration and
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooklyn Food Conference
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Brownmiller, Susan
Brownstone Movement
Brownstones
Buckley, James
Buffalo
Building codes
Bunshaft, Gordon
Burden, Carter
Burke, Deborah
Butzel, Albert
Byron, Joan
Campbell, Clive (DJ Kool Herc)
Canal Street
Car-dependency
Carey, Hugh
Carnegie Hall
Caro, Robert
Cross Bronx Expressway and
on deferred maintenance
on Interstate Highway System
on Moses
urban development and
on World’s Fair/automobile industry
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Carter, Majora
Casinos
Cast Iron
Catalysts
Center for an Urban Future
Central Park
Moses and
Central Park West
Central Savings Bank
Change
bottom-up
cataclysmic
inappropriate
incremental
positive
preservation and
small steps for
urban
Changing the subject
Charney, Jordan
Chicago
Childs, David
Chinatown
Chrysler Building
Church of the Most Holy Crucifix
Churchill, Winston
Cincotta, Gale
Citi Field
CitiCorp
Cities Back from the Edge (Gratz)
Citizen activists
Citizen-based efforts
City Hall
fighting
preservation and
West Side and
City Planning Commission
Civic protest movements
Clearance
Moses and
Co-op City
Coliseum
Coliseum Square
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