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!
I am on the other side of both Flatbush and Atlantic, so you are right in saying that I will not be on the heaviest used blocks.
I think the claims of “thousands of rowdy basketball fans” are overblown. I have been to many sporting events, and the vast majority of people enter and leave the events in an orderly fashion.
Sure, it will be nosier for a half hour or so as the crowds disburse, but this is already a busy and noisy area.
The parking lots are far enough away from me to not be an issue at all, but I don’t see how 1 block of surface parking can be that great of an eyesore to a neighborhood that has had 2+ blocks of train yards and plenty of empty lots for decades.
In terms of gridlock I do not have a car. It seems to me that when you boil things down, the largest complaint about the project is the traffic. There is no doubt that traffic will suck worse for people who drive through this area, but I don’t have a huge amount of pity for people who have cars in on the best transit served areas in the country.
Note that I am not saying that Ratner is a great person, that EDSC is looking out for the good of the people, or that hundreds of other things could have been done better.
In the long term, I think having a second large arena will do a lot of good for the city, and this site is probably the best place in the city to locate it.
“If you think people who are paying between $75 and $10,000 for a ticket/box to a game run through the streets naked after gametime, you’re clueless.”
Now I really have no interest in going to a b-ball game.
But just bought a season subscription to the MET Opera.
Yes, it is really a horrible thing to locate a stadium at a location that is served by a commuter railroad and multiple subway lines, not to mention that it is within walking distance of a sizable number of people with good incomes.
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?
Most fans after a game go right downstairs to the subway but that area of midtown is much more commercial than residential. There are loads of restaurants and bars in the area and the Garden also has a huge police presence right downstairs in Penn Station. It’s a very different scenario. I don’t think Brooklyn fans will run naked through the streets, but there will be a big impact on surrounding streets that you don’t get in Manhattan.
11217, I’m not surprised that your neighbors don’t have a problem with the project. As far as I can tell it’s a very small but exceptionally noisy minority that has been engaging in protest-for-the-sake-of-protest.
“back room deals”
Stop dh. You’re getting me excited.
DH it doesn’t count when you say it. You haven’t won the game yet.
Babs, you really don’t help your radical outlook on this matter by making this about Republicans and Democrats.
I live in North Slope, not far from this project, am about as leftist as you can get and look forward to this project very much. Every one of my neighbors are excited about it too. And none to my knowledge are Republicans.
back room deals