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Photo of the Day: Atlantic Yards Destruction Continues


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Jacob Dobkin

Published Apr 28, 2006

Modified Mar 7, 2008


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Published Apr 28, 2006

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Sad: each day seems to bring news of the destruction of a new building in Prospect Heights. Two weeks ago the Underberg Building disappeared, and yesterday Curbed reported the razing of buildings along Dean Street. The picture above, by Horseycraze on Flickr, shows the Vanderbilt Products Building coming down at the beginning of the month. All of this is intended to pave the way for construction on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards Project-- a bunch of court cases are still pending, but at this rate, in a couple of weeks there aren't going to be any buildings left to defend.

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Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.

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