The blogger from  A Year in the Park, was also at the Blogade brunch. In her blog, she documents her daily explorations of Prospect Park. Today, AYITP pastes an image of a proposed apartment building, "a glass sheathed atrocity", into a photo of the park.

What disturbed me about the nascent debate over this flagship of skyscrapery in PLG was the opinion expressed by some that Brooklyn would have "arrived" once Prospect Park was virtually ringed with towers, in the manner of (its vastly inferior rough draft) Central Park.

The vision of Vaux and Olmsted was explicitly that harried urbanites could refresh their souls in a place from which the city was mysteriously cloaked and hidden. Every turn of path and rise of land was placed with an artist’s hand to support this exquisite illusion; the periphery of the park is not mere real estate, but more akin to the priceless frame around a Monet.

It matters deeply how it appears to those within, as a legacy of our greatest civic treasure, and the intention of its creators should be pondered before we assent to hemming it in (visually and psychologically) with a forest of glaring eyesores.