Atlantic Yards

Designs and Timelines for Atlantic Yards Residential Buildings

Rendering of arena block, with the arena and all three housing buildings

Forest City Ratner Companies recently released initial designs for the first residential building that will be built on the block that currently holds the Barclays Center. The company plans to begin construction of the building in early 2012. The building will have approximately 175 units of affordable housing for middle- and low-income New Yorkers and 175 units of market rate housing. Forest City also released design concepts for the two other residential buildings that will be built on the block in the coming years.

Forest City Ratner Companies is exploring using modular technology to build the building. If built modular, it would be the world’s tallest modular building.

The architect for the project is SHoP Architects. The designs and design concepts can be viewed here.

More Events Announced for Barclays Center

12/05/11 In recent days, Barclays Center announced that renowned classical vocalist Andrea Bocelli and the prestigious Gucci Masters show jumping event will be coming to Brooklyn in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Bocelli is known as the “Fourth Tenor” and has done a series of holiday concerts in New York. The December 5, 2012 concert will be his only performance in New York City in 2012.

The 2013 horse jumping event will draw the world’s 30 top riders. It joins events in Paris and Hong Kong as part of the “triple crown” of horse jumping.

These events join Nets basketball, the circus and popular music acts like Jay-Z.

ArtBridge Taps 20 Brooklyn-based emerging artists to transform Atlantic Yards into 3000 sq. ft open air gallery

11/01/11

ArtBridge, the Chelsea-based nonprofit organization best known for transforming construction sites into public exhibition space for local emerging artists, opened its latest installation “Works in Progress” on October 20^th, 2011. The work of 20 emerging artists living or working in Brooklyn adorns 3,000 square feet of construction fencing around the perimeter of the Atlantic Yards Development. The installation was organized by ArtBridge and curated by internationally-renowned artist Vik Muniz, humble arts foundation founder Amani Olu, and Brooklyn Museum’s Managing Curator of Contemporary Art, Eugenie Tsai.

Fight Rodents with a FREE Garbage Can

08/10/11 As part of our commitment to our neighbors, Forest City Ratner Companies will provide free waste receptacles to tenants, superintendants and building owners near Atlantic Yards. FCRC will provide up to 1400 Departments of Health and Sanitation approved rodent deterrent garbage cans to residential buildings of 12 or fewer units located within the following area: South of Atlantic Avenue from 4th Avenue to Vanderbilt Avenue; Vanderbilt Avenue from Atlantic Avenue to Bergen Street; Bergen Street from Vanderbilt to 4th Avenue; 4th Avenue (East side only) from Bergen Street to Atlantic Ave.

For more information, click here or contact the Atlantic Yards Community Liaison Office at communityliaison@atlanticyards.com or 1-866-923-5315.

Each eligible building is entitled to receive one garbage can for each unit within the building.

GENERAL NOTICE – Parking

07/14/11 This serves as a notice as stipulated in DOT PERMIT #B022011189068 that effective Monday July 18, 2011 there will be no parking on the south side of Pacific Street from the intersection of Carlton Avenue to approximately 100 feet west of the intersection. Signs will be posted to establish this no parking zone. The no Parking zone is being established to allow for the rescontruction of the Carlton Avenue Bridge.

For additional information pleas contact the Community Liaison office by phone at 1-866-923-5315 or by email at COMMUNITYLIAISON@ATLANTICYARDS.COM.

A copy of the general notice can be found here.