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Plans for the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards, New York city, New York, a megaproject of office towers, housing, parks and sports facilities, were unveiled. Right at the improbable intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, across from where architect Walter O'Malley proposed a new Ebbets Field for the Dodgers about 50 years ago, architect Frank Gehry has designed a basketball arena for New Jersey Nets, at the head of a tree-lined boulevard of mixed-height structures. After decades of urban-design near-paralysis, the city faces the equivalent of a Rockefeller Center in Brooklyn, a new skyline of building blocks set askew within six acres of parks that would stitch together a section of the city long scarred by a gash of railroad tracks.