Here’s an excerpt from Gersh Kuntzman’s critique of the new LIRR station and its concrete security blockades in the Brooklyn Paper:
Why bother having the terror trials in a courthouse when we could have them at the new Long Island Rail Road terminal? After all, the new “Atlantic Terminal” rail station that opened officially on Tuesday is one of the most heavily armored facilities in the borough — ringed by no less than 14 mammoth concrete coffins that give the beautiful new facility the look of an outpost in the Green Zone. The appalling capitulation to the so-called “realities” of the so-called “post–9-11 world” have turned architect John di Domenico’s inspirational portal into a bunker. Train stations are supposed to be about magic and adventure, not paranoia and fear. They’re supposed to inspire Americans to explore and look beyond narrow parochialism, not encourage it.
You fail to consider the excessive poor driving in that area which is cabable of sending a vehicle directly into the place.
And, by the way, ugly doesn’t matter if i get blowed up.
Finally, Altlantic Center is soulless strip mall shopping anyway, so who really cares? I mean, get over it and accept the fact that it is now mandatory to have these kinds of barricades. At least they are decent looking and not cast concrete….
The first time I ever agreed with Gersh.
I love to ride on trains..
“Train stations are supposed to be about magic and adventure.” They are? What a gasbag.