No Land Grab has this about new maps installed at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge:The map's description of MetroTech includes the word "vibrant", but it is neither vibrant nor a neighborhood. It's really just an office park, and an unfortunate example of a Forest City project: Built with the help of large public subsidies and the use of eminent domain, the area is completely out of character with the surrounding neighborhoods and is never very lively, particularly after 6 p.m. when the office workers go home and the area goes dead. It's likely that the main point of interest of MetroTech to a Brooklyn visitor is just how uninteresting a place it is.
Vibrant - gotta love that word...
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Its the same PR hacks for the city - they must think we are stupid because, in a languages of 100,000s of words, they seem to use the same 10 words over and over ad nauseum ... vibrant! ... diverse! .... great investment! ... etc etc
Metrotech is "unfortunate"? I guess you would prefer that all the jobs there move to Jersey City. Maybe we should get rid of every office building in the outer boroughs and move all the jobs to Jersey, then everything in the outer boroughs would rot to nothing and the few people left could have a lots of quiet.
Metrotech is an example of urban planning gone amuck.
MetroTech was supposed to revitalize the downtown area. Walk two blocks away and it's still a slum. The stores sell cheap junk.
You say the area is dead after 6pm? Here's a typical solution- turn some of the offices into condo towers, as the city did in the Financial District, or encourage theaters, restaurants, and galleries to move in, in order to keep the area alive on weekends.
The next time I tell the bodega clerk to wrap my 20 ounce "Colt 45"in a brown paper bag, so I can drink it
as I walk down the block....I gotta remind myself that I'm part of this new "VIBRANT" immigrant culture!
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