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It’s ON! Brooklyn Nets Open Pre-Season at Barclays Center

Homer Fink — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:36:15 +0000

The Brooklyn Nets are a reality so stop you’re whinin’ and start rooting! The Twitterverse is exploding with excitement for our team. Are you rooting for the Nets this season? Check out fan reaction to last night’s game and a video report from the Brooklyn Bugle’s official Nets correspondent Karl Junkersfeld after the jump.

Barclay’s Center is Just the Beginning

Homer Fink — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:28:52 +0000

Ongoing concerns about Barclays Center’s overall impact on surrounding borough neighborhoods—including Brooklyn Heights—could rise from a low roar to a full-on battle cry, given the mammoth long-term plan that developer Bruce Ratner has in mind for the area. Located at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, Barclays is merely the first part to be completed of a planned 16-building complex that would include 6 million square feet of residential, 247,000 of retail and 336,000 of office space.

In a lengthy story about the Atlantic Yards development, The Architects Newspaper reports that the as yet tallest modular construction building in the world—a 32-story residential tower—is slated to add to the Brooklyn skyline. An office building and possibly a hotel would round out the first phase of development, followed by eleven more residential buildings, eight acres of open space, and retail.

Ironically, it was NYC planner Robert Moses who first pooh-poohed the idea of a stadium near the space now occupied by Barclays Center, back in 1955. Responding to Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley’s proposal to build a new home for the Dodgers on the site of what is now the Atlantic Center Mall, Moses said, “I don’t want to see a baseball field in downtown Brooklyn at all. The streets will never handle all the cars. (A) stadium would create a China Wall of traffic.” Much more, including more photos, here.

How did we get there from here? Read the Atlantic Yards Report’s definitive primer on the area’s development.

Source: Brooklyn Heights Blog
http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/49042

Report: Marty Gets his Apple Store

Homer Fink — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:51:40 +0000

All Marty Markowitz wants in Brooklyn is an Apple Store. Last spring, he created a “viral” video asking Apple honcho Steve Jobs to consider opening one of his glass Mac palaces here. Now, the New York Observer reports that Marty might get his wish.

Where? DUMBO? Park Slope? Cobble Hill? Nope. Atlantic Yards.

NYO: Since last month, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has been informally chatting with potential landlords, including Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner, about leasing options in the area, a source with ties to Forest City Ratner told The Commercial Observer on Wednesday.
“They’ve been very gun shy, the Apple people,” said the source, who refused to be identified because the person was not given clearance to speak publicly. “They’re focusing on the arena area right now, but there’s no space. But it’s the only place in Brooklyn that’s super visible, close to trains and about as close as you can get to a 24-hour community in the borough.”

Atlantic Yards watchdog, Norman Oder, calls the report “lightly sourced” and wonders why the Observer and other outlets aren’t paying more attention to the allegations of “green cards for investments” connected to the project.