BoomCrash » News https://boomcrash.theory.org Art in the Aftermath Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Talk about BoomCrash… https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=316 https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=316#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 skeeboz https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=316 Picture 1

From the Lens Blog of the New York Times

Showcase: Dubai’s Improbable Tale

]]> https://boomcrash.theory.org/?feed=rss2&p=316 0 WNYC Breaks it down https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=314 https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=314#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:24:47 +0000 skeeboz https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=314 An update on an older story about “The Cost of Doing Business” during the twilight of the boom.

Check it!

]]> https://boomcrash.theory.org/?feed=rss2&p=314 0 Two Articles https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=306 https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=306#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:25:06 +0000 skeeboz https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=306 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:
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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

]]> https://boomcrash.theory.org/?feed=rss2&p=306 0 A recent collaboration… https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=280 https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=280#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:57:06 +0000 skeeboz https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=280 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.

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Southwest corner of North 7th and Bedford Avenue

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Courtesy of Candace Goodrich

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]]> https://boomcrash.theory.org/?feed=rss2&p=280 0 An important landmark article… https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=95 https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=95#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:16:44 +0000 skeeboz https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=95 …from New York Magazine

The Billyburg Bust

]]> https://boomcrash.theory.org/?feed=rss2&p=95 0 The Daily News Breaks it Down… https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=88 https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=88#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:53:45 +0000 skeeboz https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=88 From the Daily News after the first Crane fell last March…

Crane tragedy is just latest in a string of disasters at construction sites

]]> https://boomcrash.theory.org/?feed=rss2&p=88 0 A story that shouldn’t surprise us… https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=72 https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=72#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:42:53 +0000 skeeboz https://boomcrash.theory.org/?p=72 …but, DAMN! it feels good to see them squirm.

From the New York Times,

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