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Old Posted Feb 22, 2016, 3:29 AM
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Locals Call for a More Pedestrian-Friendly Redesign of Atlantic Avenue’s Times Plaza

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Greenland Forest City might be making headlines for proposing to build the borough’s largest office building using development rights from the open plaza in front of the Barclays Center, but they’re also redesigning the area’s other awkward triangular open space — Times Plaza.

Indeed, the developers are required to make over the plaza as part of improvements for the Barclays Center vicinity. But some locals are upset the redesign won’t do anything to make the plaza and its surrounding intersection any safer for pedestrians.

Owned by the New York City Transit Authority, the traffic island is home to the iconic Times Plaza Control House, a Flemish Revival style subway entrance designed in 1908 by the firm of Heins & LaFarge. Restored in 2005, it’s one of the finest subway structures in the city.

Don’t worry — that Heins & LaFarge entrance isn’t going anywhere. However, the preliminary plans for the Times Plaza redesign left locals nonplussed, according to Streetsblog.

The reimagined space would have sturdy benches connected to large planters in addition to a handful of round tables with attached seating and open space for a food cart.

When the developers presented the design at a community meeting in late January, a number of locals looked beyond the aesthetic changes, objecting to the lack of pedestrian safety improvements to the island and the dangerous intersection surrounding it.


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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2016...laza-redesign/
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