The conflict over Sunnyside Yard is more than just a debate over land and what to build there. It’s a battleground where drastically different philosophies of civic life can clash in public. JDavidsonNYC writes
The future Sunnyside Yard. Photo: PAU Inventing a beautiful future is one way to compensate for the dissatisfactions of the present. A recent report imagines a new Queens neighborhood in a generation or two, and it tries to undo, for our children and grandchildren’s sake, all the terrible things our parents and grandparents did to us. In our world, pedestrians huddle miserably at the edge of lethal speed tracks, begging leave to cross.
It’s a thrilling prospect, although the excitement will have to be diluted into a solution thin enough to last for 40 years. The report isn’t a plan so much as a wish list, one that barely even addresses, let alone resolves, questions about the political path, where the money would come from, or what the trade-offs might be.
To reinforce the sense that the report describes the best of all possible Yards, it includes a few references to past, unrealized ambitions. In 1931, the Regional Plan Association agitated for a massive rail terminal over the yards, topped by Queens’s answer to the Empire State Building. A 1971 LeFrak Plan envisioned a modernist multilayer cake, with highways above the tracks and a matrix of office buildings and middle-class apartment slabs on top of that.
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