Mmmmmmmm, Instant Skyline

This is the view of the new Brooklyn skyline ala Frank Gehry and Bruce Ratner according to an article in today's FCR Bulletin NY Times. The effect could be, uh, overwhelming:

The project, the largest proposed outside Manhattan in decades, would include much more housing than originally announced in 2003, growing to about 6,000 units from 4,500, according to a plan made available to The New York Times.

But the real impact would be in the size and density of the buildings, which are taller and bulkier than once envisioned. With 17 buildings, many of them soaring 40 to 50 stories, the project would forever transform the borough and its often-intimate landscape, creating a dense urban skyline reminiscent of Houston or Dallas.

The article describes the development as "Instant Skyline."

Sounds like something you buy in the economy sized box at Key Food.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Empty contents of package into an "empty" development site
2. Add at least $100 Million in public subsidies. You may wish to add more if the flavor of personal financial risk is too intense.
3. Stir briskly until you see pockets of resistance forming on the edges of the container.
4. Turn up the heat.

You should be enjoying your delicious, fresh-cooked scheme within minutes months however long it takes.

Serving Suggestion: Garnish with homemade PR blurbs in the NY Times and willfully ignorant politicians. For extra nutiness, you may wish to add of dollop of ACORN butter.

That's the recipe for instant skyline.

The real question is...

who ordered this dish?

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Comments

[aaron]

Wow... It's a cartoon version of a real city. Thanks, Frank!

[Park Slope Princess]

There's nothing to say but, "Eat Me!"