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 was going to stay out of yet another AY debate, but could not once the claim was made that “Those of us who are physically closer are still dead set against the project.”
I am 2 blocks away and I can see the construction from my balcony, and I am not against it.
Talking to people in my building, I have not run across anyone who has strong emotions against it.
In terms of the viewing the construction, you can get great views from the second and third floors of the Atlantic Terminal Mall, right next to the escalator banks.
“By brownstoner on December 17, 2010 9:50 AM
someone needs to wash lechacal’s mouth out with soap”
Sorry Mr. B. I can keep my more hatey rhetoric to the OT if you want to keep it clean in the civilian threads.
And you aren’t even good Republicans – because who’s paying for most of this? The taxpayer – aren’t you people supposed to be against that sort of thing? Or maybe that’s only if it’s for some actual public good that might benefit (gasp! shudder!) poor people, as opposed to a for-profit enterpise building a basketball arena for its money-losing, majority foreign-owned, and massively underperforming professional sports team, soon to be named, perhaps, the Brooklyn New Yorkers. Way to go – you can tell that brainstorm must have come from a non-native speaker of English.
If this is such a great project for the citizens of Brooklyn, how come we can’t see it being built, unless we’re high up in an office building, or somesuch? FCR has the highest construction fences up I’ve ever seen, with no visible means of seeing anything, unless they release it, such as in this photo. Even on the back end, on Dean street, where they have chain link fencing, they’ve laced fake greenery through the fencing so you can’t see squat. You’d think they were building CIA/NSA headquarters in there.
So glad my tax bucks are paying for hand woven astroturf.
“Biffy – That’s o.k. so long as you wallow in the guilt.”
Arkady, I’m Jewish, it goes without saying that I will!
Biffy – That’s o.k. so long as you wallow in the guilt.
I just can’t understand how anyone who loves Brooklyn can be happy about this project, for one simple reason — it’s going to look like shit and do nothing at all for look and feel of the built environment! Bruce Ratner is incapable of building something decent — look at the hideousness that is Metrotech. Look at his malls. They’re ugly and unpleasant buildints. Why oh why does anyone think that this same guy, having struck out twice aesthetically, is going to do better the third time?
Brooklyn deserves better than Bruce Ratner.
In Brooklyn Heights, I live just far away enough to not be too impacted by the increased traffic & overloaded infrastructure but just close enough to walk to the Barclay’s Center. Too bad I can’t stand basketball. If only Brooklyn had a professional hockey team that could play there!
I have guilt-filled excitement over this project.
ha ha babs, totally. no one regrets the loss of the original design more than me. but who knows, maybe they never intended on building it, maybe it was a scam. I can’t really blame DG for doing what he did– that use of eminent domain was downright abusive, even though i love the idea of a brooklyn pro sports team, and even tho i really wanted that Gehry building. they’re not nimbys because it wasn’t their backyards– it was their homes.