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!
And now that I think about it, I wouldn’t mind some fans running through the streets of Park Slope naked. Bring it on!
More likely, however they will get in the subway at Atlantic Terminal and go home. Or perhaps they will walk down 5th Avenue and GASP…spend money at one of our many bars and restaurants!! Those business owners must be FURIOUS about the new roaming packs of people who will want to visit their establishments!
“thousands of rowdy basketball fans through your neighborhood on game nights?”
Clearly you have never been by Madison Square Garden after a Knicks game lets out. 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.
The crowd letting out of the MET Opera are more rowdy.
>babs, my taxes have not actually gone up due to this project. the only impact it has on me is as I drive by it in my car service.
How do you know that? How do you think interest on the municipal bonds issued for this project is being paid? No, there may not be a line on your return that says “Atlantic Yards,” but it’s there in the overall budget. And since said bonds were only issued at the end of last year, I’d say wait for it.
And since you don’t rub shoulders with the rest of us on the subway or even the LIRR you surely don’t care that 1. subway fares are going up due to the MTA’s chronic mismanagement, including selling the Vanmderbilt Yards at well below market price and then even reducing the price further and extending the timeline for payment 2. the structural integrity of the Atlantic Avenue station (and I will never call it by any other name) is already severely compromised by this construction and is only going to become more overcrowded in the future 3. the Flatbush Avenue Terminal (and I will never call it by any other name) is much smallet than the building it replaced to allow for the Rat’s malls and is CLOSED to the public after midnight (good luck getting to the subways down there) because there are no longer any LIRR train into or out of Brooklyn after that time to allow for Rat construction, while the number of trains during the day has been sharply reduced because there are now only half as many operable train tracks through the Vanderbilt Yards, again to allow for Rat construction staging.
You are paying for it DIBS, and in more ways than you are aware in your cosseted, insulated, Republican life.
You said it, babs. 🙂
So, BoerumHillScott, you’re not against 25 years of acres of parking lots, permanent gridlock (and worse on game nights) at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues and surrounding intersections, and the influx of (it is hoped by the Rat and Co.) thousands of rowdy basketball fans through your neighborhood on game nights? How odd. I would think that most residents of this area would be (and the ones I know certainly are). Yes, you may be two blocks away, but judging from your name, you’re on the other side of Flatbush, which won’t be as adversely affected, at least not immediately. So this is the opposite of NIMBY, meaning that as long as it’s not in my backyard it’s OK. Sure.
someone needs to send this pic to CARMELO!
“By babs on December 17, 2010 10:16 AM
Actually, if Dan Goldstein were only about counting his money, do you think he’d waste his time testifying against the total sham of extending this travesty’s timeline to 25 years, as he did yesterday?”
Yeah, a guy with a wealthy Dad sitting in a chair talking about what he thinks about development project is really hard work. He should get oh….at least $2 million for that. Yeah, that makes sense.
Plenty of people are still opposed to it- my neighborhood is one of those that will be directly impacted. we can see effects even now, thanks to construction.
I’m glad all you sports fans are so thrilled. It’s comforting to see there are those who still can overlook the cost, the waste, the horrific traffic, and the destruction of people’s homes for sport.
babs, my taxes have not actually gone up due to this project. the only impact it has on me is as I drive by it in my car service.