Goodbye Idyllic Mayberry Neighborhood

CrowdedTime to step back and look at the big picture. Staceyjoy pointed out this vision of a snarled urban dystopia: "There will be new office towers and corporate headquarters looming over Brooklyn Heights, a jazzy sports arena at Atlantic Ave., movie studios in the Navy Yard, big box stores and a cruise ship terminal in Red Hook, and huge residential complexes in Dumbo and along 4th Ave. … Planned development is expected to total 45 million square feet, equaling the size of five World Trade Centers … The inescapable corollary … that hundreds of thousands of new travelers will be drawn to the hub—an estimated 500,000 more people per day."

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