BoomCrash

From the Lens Blog of the New York Times

Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable Tale

An update on an older story about “The Cost of Doing Business” during the twilight of the boom.

Check it!

One from the front page of the Times not too long ago. Lays down the facts on Bloomberg’s rezoning of 1/5th of the city and the result after the Crash:

A Stalled Vision: Big Development as City’s Future

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A blast from the past via the Washington Post. The title says it all:
A Condo Tower Grows in Brooklyn: Hipster Haven Loses Its Cool As Big Bucks Flow in Fast

Boom Crash, along with a hundred or so fellow provocateurs, recently participated in a large scale liberation of street-level commercial billboards in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Our contribution meshed nicely with our neighbors, and we are super psyched to have been asked to participate.

Read more about the ongoing work of the Public Ad Campaign and a good summary of what happened yesterday in this article from the New York Times.

Video:

boomcrash from dgoats on Vimeo.

Southwest corner of North 7th and Bedford Avenue

Courtesy of Candace Goodrich

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