No alarms and no surprises, please

I guess it's not shocking, per se, that the bids for the West Side Yards redevelopment all remind me of Stuyvesant Town. Granted, the build quality on the structures looks like it will be quite a bit nicer, but the anti-street-grid development model still sucks. Le Corbusier strikes again, et al. It's not shocking. But it's definitely sad. As a commenter on Curbed noted,

"The thing that gives new york , and most great cities, thier character is the street.im really happy all of these designs chose to ignore that and go with the tower in the park idea that has been so successful in the past."

Phooey. At least the bids give my friend Katie Lorah the opportunity to make snarky comments as the voice of Friends of the High Line.