Barclays Center Rising
This photo is the best one we’ve seen of the progress at the Barclays Center, the future home of The Nets and the first piece of the Atlantic Yards project. And it should: It was sent out by someone in-house to potential buyers of basketball tickets yesterday!
This photo is the best one we’ve seen of the progress at the Barclays Center, the future home of The Nets and the first piece of the Atlantic Yards project. And it should: It was sent out by someone in-house to potential buyers of basketball tickets yesterday!
“the Rat”
You realize your credibility goes down when you resort to stuff like that, right?
this whole argument boils down to cars. people in the surrounding neighborhoods are pissed there will be more traffic and less free parking for THEM.
see how when ANYTHING changes in brooklyn, it’s always the drivers who are pissed about everything?
keep brooklyn the same, so i can drive to fairway and park for free on the street.
selfish. shame on you
DH you can’t get bingo if you shout the number yourself.
As I said above, had the Rat been honest about his intentions from the get-go, he would not have encountered the opposition he did. He would not be razing blocks and blocks of what was viable and inhabited housing stock to replace with blacktop for the next 25 years. An arena could actually make a nice complement to the BAM culutral district – it’s all the other crap – the luxury condominium towers (with the minimum amount of affordable housing thrown in to get state money), the “Miss Brooklyn” office tower, etc., that really made the thing stink. But, as I also pointed out, that would have required him to use his own money.
Question to the AY opponents: can you name another feasible spot for a Brooklyn arena where the chances of people taking mass transit or walking to it would have been higher?
Dead on man. I’m all for this project, and I think the rest will get built rather than parking lots. Brooklyn real estate has held up pretty well, and there might be plenty of investors by the time those sections are prepped and ready to be built.
RATner
“the Rat”
OK DH, we’re getting pretty close to bingo.
Babs, I’m quite familiar with the MET….I was making a joke. I’ve been to nearly every production for the last 10 years.
I think BoreumhillScott summed up my viewpoints exactly on the matter and in a very eloquent way.
This area is NOT a quiet little village as some would like to make it out to be….it is already a major transit hub and is surrounded by very commercial areas (5th avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Flatbush Avenue.
Nantucket it is not. It is the perfect spot for an arena like this, in my opinion.
Did you hear Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey have signed on to have the circus there starting in 2012? Can guarantee you that TONS of parents in the area will be excited about that.
The U.S. Open is also in talks to have some of its tennis events at the new arena. Personally, I think it’s gunna be awesome…especially some of the big draw concerts they will be bringing in.
I only said that most of the people supporting AY here are Republicans. In reality, I know for a fact that there are many Republicans who actively oppose it as well, and am sure that there are Democrats who support it. My point was the lack of sense in trying to reason with these rabid supporters in that they are just like some Republican politicians out there who also can’t be reasoned with.
And benson, had the Rat been more forthcoming about his plan to begin with, and proposed merely a basketball arena, instead of what would be the densest single census tract in the entire country, all in order to get public financing for his project, he might have enountered a lot less oppposition. Oh – but that would have involved him using his own money. I forgot; that’s not FCR’s business model.