Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report

From New York Times; Pacific Park shadows not delinated It was interesting to read last week's New York Times Upshot feature, Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block , which promised more than it delivered--yet still left some sobering observations. The interactive map is based on slightly stale data. So "every building" does not include recently erected Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park towers or their shadows, much less the shadows long predicted on buildout. Rather, the project footprint comes off as a smudge, as shown in the screenshot at right. But the article did send me back a decade to recall the estimates of the significant shadows that project buildings are predicted to cast. Not only will those shadows darken the much-hyped "park," they will extend past the footprint. Remember, the architect of the ten-story Atlantic Terrace building just northeast of the arena block scrapped plans for solar panels, saying  in 2007, ...