Atlantic Yards photo map

From my photo book:
Atlantic Yards: [De]Construction Of The Neighborhood
www.atlanticYardsPhotoBook.com:

On December 10, 2003, developer Forest City Ratner proposed a major project for central Brooklyn, New York called “Atlantic Yards.” Architect Frank Gehry and landscape architect Laurie Olin were selected to design the project, which would today include a 20,500 seat arena for the NBA Nets professional basketball team and 16 towers ranging in height to 511 feet (approximately 50 stories). If built as proposed, Atlantic Yards would be the most expensive single development in Brooklyn history, covering 22 acres with a total of 8 million square feet of space and more than 6430 residential units. The development cost is estimated to be $4 billion.

To go to the flickr photo page of each thumbnail photo, move your cursor over the thumbnail to see its "note" and then click on the link.

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These are a small number of the photos in the Atlantic Yards photo pool.

For more information about Atlantic Yards:

Atlantic Yards Report
No Land Grab
Develop - Don't Destroy Brooklyn

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threecee says:

it's amazing what a mention on the Brownstoner blog can do. the number of views of this photo really increased when it was mentioned on the blog.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

also, i'm adding notes to each of the thumbnails around the map. each thumbnail note will have a link to its flickr photo.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

the Curbed blog has also mentioned this image, so the view count has really taken off.

thanks Brownstoner and Curbed!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

CitySkip [deleted] says:

great idea - very cool.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Flatbush Gardener says:

That's an impressive piece of work. I can appreciate how long it would take to do something like this.

What did you use to construct the original linked thumbnail image?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

thanks, Flatbush Gardener. it was a tedious process to add the individual "notes" over each thumbnail.

here's how i did it (please forgive me if i'm telling you something you already know):

the map is all one image that i made completely in photoshop.

first, i hand drew the map. then i placed each individual thumbnail around the border of the map, using photoshop to scale down each image to thumbnail size. next, i drew the location points (the red lines/dots). then i uploaded to flickr and added the notes. in the text of each note, i added the URL link of the flickr photo in HTML.

probably more information than you were looking for, but maybe someone else will find this useful, or be able to explain a better way (i.e. more automated) to do the same thing.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

turns out that another reason for the large number of views is that Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn also posted about it on July 2nd.

thanks DDDB!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Jasmic says:

What a fantastic idea! I appreciate the amount of work that has gone into this, but I think you have really hit on a brilliant way of displaying images of a specific area. Huge clap on the back for the effort.

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Seen in a discussion of Views: 1750. (?)
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

thanks!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

lucky_dog says:

excellent esthetics,and presentation. i'd like to do something like this with one of my maps.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

thanks
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Samyra Serin says:

Neat idea & great shots

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Seen in a discussion of Favorites: 5. (?)
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

bork willy says:

wow.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

dadebreiss says:

Great Photo Map! and helpful.Good work on this issue on Property.
JMB
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Wish_Art says:

Great Idea ! Such a creative use of Notes.

Seen in a discussion of Views: 2000

Mike
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Jasmic says:

It has just occured to me that the architect, Frank Gehry was responsible for this building in Barcelona, known as the Fish.

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Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

to all those who posted compliments the past two months: thanks!

Jasmic: i used to be much more of a Gehry fan, but after studying him close up and personal around the Atlantic Yards project, i'm not liking him so much, personality-wise and architecture-wise.

that said, i do kind of like "The Fish".
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

a shadow of my future self says:

You've done a seriously good job here. Unfortunately I don't have enough time enough to go through it all in detail but what a marvellous document you've created.

MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE SEEING THIS.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

thanks, shadow!

and, i'm working on getting more people to see my work, and to learn more about the tragedy that is Atlantic Yards.

check out my blog: www.freakinblog.com
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

elissabirke says:

Hi threecee,
I'm working on a TV pilot and we're producing a segment about the Atlantic Yards. We've shot interviews with Daniel Goldstein, Norman Oder, Deborah Kolben and others. I am wondering if we could get a hi-res copy of the map you created? We don't need the photos. We don't need the layer with the red lines and dots. Just the map would be awesome! Please let me know what you think. And THANK YOU for calling attention to a very important story. We hope to do the same thing with our show. -elissa
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

Elissa-

I sent you a reply via flickrmail. Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I got busy and then forgot to reply to you.

Tracy
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

ZeroOne says:

Cool, very nice technique! :) There are 52 photos, if I didn't count wrong. How did you remember where you took each one? Have you got some GPS device, or did you mark the spot on a map right after taking the photo, or do you just know the neighborhoods so well that you didn't need to write any coordinates down? I'll be visiting Manhattan in a month, it would definitely be cool if I was able to draw something like this, but I just might settle with Flickr's built-in geotags...
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

Thanks, ZeroOne.

I remember where I took each one as I live in the neighborhood and have been documenting the area for about 4 years now. I'm very familiar with the territory.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

alan2onion says:

This is awesome. I've been visiting Brooklyn on business for the past 4 months and walking the neighborhoods, taking snaps. Happened to find your work when Googling the Atlantic Avenue station. Glad I did!

Great stuff.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

Thanks, alan2onion! I'm glad you found my work, too.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

bumbarrels says:

Nice presentation.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

jeffynyc says:

Wow. Great work! This is so sad - all these grand old buildings being destroyed in the name of private greed, facilitated by Bloomberg and his billionaire pals. If they ever build anything, we'll have a chintzy shopping mall at best.
Posted 2 weeks ago. ( permalink )

threecee says:

thanks, jeffynyc. it's truly tragic what they've already done to the hood. throwing up a "chintzy shopping mall" would be the final insult.
Posted 10 days ago. ( permalink )

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