Brooklyn Life

I'd be disappointed by the Macy's closing were it not that the present store is but a very pale shadow of the old A&S.

I remember our family going to Fort Hamilton on the weekends to watch the construction of the Verrazano. We would have Sunday dinner at the original Hamilton House, then sit on a blanket by the cannons at the John Paul Jones Cannonball Park and be amazed at this wonder of construction

since i am female and hispanic i would have never been welcome at any of these clubs. yeah, the whole "What if you lived a century ago" isn't so fun for a lot of us, especially not women. but! if these clubs existed today, I'd be in a bicycle club! Although knowing brooklyn of today and many of my middle aged male co-workers, they'd all be jerks in spandex on $8,000 carbon frame bikes. sigh.

Decking over sounds great, using the underside for delivery hubs seems useful, but the idea that people are going to want to hang out and enjoy a space under a piece of polluting infrastructure sounds like putting lipstick on a pig. Bury the whole thing, or tear it down.