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!
DeLepp, cheer up. Gen Z is the opposite of Gen Y; they will turn it around from their self-absorbed older siblings.
arch66, agreed, the culture is in the grip of “collective entitlement”. I want what they’ve got no matter what sacrifices/luck someone else was afforded. I don’t see i turning around anytime soon and I’m worried. Do you know only 33% of folks have saved more than $50K for their retirement? Manyhave less than $10K and they’re over 50.
God I’m depressing myself and others.
Ratner sucks vs. Atlantic Yards is going to save Brooklyn. Yada yada yada.
I don’t get all the hate for “NIMBY” folks. I know many people who held their noses and participated in DDDB and Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods (although I mostly just sat on the sidelines and cheered). They gave their lifeblood to stop this abuse of power and limit what they saw as a blight. Should some rich guy start misappropriating public property and funds to build a behemoth in your neighborhood, you should hope you have such dedicated people around to help defend you, whether or not you find them personally likable.
While it’s true that there will always be people opposed to any development and change, as has been noted ad naseum, they couldn’t have gotten traction had Ratner et alia’s dirty ways not paved the road for them. It’s not as easy as you think to get a court hearing.
I remain on the fence whether a stadium is a good idea for Brooklyn, but the wholesale abuse of public process and fleecing of the public (that would be your) pocket is a blight on all of us.
So DeLepp you agree that our culture is adrift and unmoored from civic values, especially as exemplified by corrupt pols. I agree it isn’t such a long leap from from Brooklyn to Bell.
11217, you’re right. Being more than twice as large as the AY arena, Yankee Stadium would have been expected to have even more of a benefit on the local community economically than the smaller arena. Yet the only change Yankee Stadium had was negative.
More people were shopping in the neighborhood BEFORE the stadium than after – not because the neighborhood was worse than Prospect Heights, but because the stadium sucked shopping inside (which is what happens for many stadiums and arenas, despite glowing projections by developers and politicians). This isn’t theoretical or ideological – it’s factual. I’m not an expert, but Neil deMause has been very convincing to me, with example after example on his blog of just this dynamic – the expected economic benefits of taxpayer support of arenas and stadiums never materialize, except to the developers, team owners and their politician friends.
“I could go on and on, but I’d take a homeless shelter filled with mentally ill substance-abusing ex-cons in my backyard over this taxpayer-funded debacle any day.”
You have some problems.
arc66, in muni finance and I can see their spending policies. Not a pretty picture. Bell CA? Yonkers? Orange County. Good luck.
yep DeLepp, it’s everyone for herself in this cruel, cruel world. Thank you for your important insight into government spending policies.
arch66, thanks for being so high and mighty. Hope you’ve got lots saved for your retirement because most of your tax dollars will be going to sweet heart pension deals between govt employee public unions and corrupted pols. BTW my folks have teacher pensions and their $1700 a month is important to their livlihood but they live mostly off of their savings as taxes(prop) take big chunks.
Illionis will be first fight and it’s coming soon.