No Norten for BAM?
In what can only be described as a big setback for the much-hyped BAM Cultural District, fundraising efforts for the Enrique Norten-designed Visual and Performing Arts Library have come up well short of the $135 million required to build the glass-and-steel structure. Word of the shortfall, which originated in (password-protected) Crain’s on Monday, reportedly came…
In what can only be described as a big setback for the much-hyped BAM Cultural District, fundraising efforts for the Enrique Norten-designed Visual and Performing Arts Library have come up well short of the $135 million required to build the glass-and-steel structure. Word of the shortfall, which originated in (password-protected) Crain’s on Monday, reportedly came from an insider at the Brooklyn Public Library. Barring someone from the private sector stepping up in a huge way, it looks like Brooklyn will have to wait a while to get a piece of this starchitect. How big a bummer do you think this is for the BAM Cultural District?
BAM Library Project Stalled? [Gothamist]
The Book Stops Here [NY Post]
there goes Forte’ sales! maybe they can just build another cement thing for BAM to help since the tiny triangle that BAM rents from the city at St felix & Layfaette is for their sole use (except on a few weekends that tey graciously allow taxpayers to use).
Glad that our government has gotton out of the business of building things like parks and libraries and is focusing instead on subsidizing developers.
the homeless have every right to stink up an Enrique Norten-designed Visual and Performing Arts Library! The homeless have rights too!
I think they should spend money on BAM and actually make it a competitive performance venue. Try as they might, the place feels like an oversized public high school theater.
$130,000,000 would go a long way to restoring that building.
Let’s also not forget what public libraries are in NYC: day care centers and homeless shelters.
It’s nice being able to borrow books for free, but in a city where most people barely have room for a couch let alone a desk, it would be nice to have a study space.
Personally, I would love to be able to go to the library and read in peace and quiet. Unfortunately, I either have to listen to the constant noise of children, or smell the urine and faeces stained beggar sitting next to me.
Libraries are incompatible with a liberal dominated society.
thanks for your valuable input anon 12:31…If anyone is thinking (and planning) in the past its the mayor, ratner and Joe Chan. all this crap is throwback outdated 1960s thinking…
Knickerblogger, the Brooklyn of yore is gone. We need great cultural institutions like this library to improve Brooklyn. Not to mention places for people like you to be institutionalized!
I am not liberal, mr. anon 1150 Its not progress, and Giving huge subsidies and tax breaks to corporations at the expense of the middle class certainly isn’t conservative, nor is central planning.
As for being short sighted no one is more short sighted then the mayor who’s trying to maxmize revenue and is investing nothing in infrastructure and kicking out light industrial business for luxury condos and building…once the building’s done then what do we do?
as I said, cheap (short sighted, stop the progress) liberals….this would have been a beatiful, much need addition to Brooklyn
oh and another thing Joe Chan’s ‘cultural district’ is a throw back to stupid, 1960s central planning – and just a trojan horse for greedy developers (yet again). It will ironically, drive and price out the real, organic growing “culture” in brooklyn for big corporate brand BS like, well this.