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Beat the Barclays Center Traffic Blues: Use Mass Transit

Ellen Freudenheim | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Traffic, Green Urban Planning, Barclays Center, Brookyn Nets, Forest City Ratner, Brooklyn New York, New York City, Barclays Center Traffic, Barclays Center Parking, Brooklyn Traffice, New York News
Ellen Freudenheim

I have a case of anticipatory road rage from being stuck in stadium traffic. To solve the anticipated parking crunch, the Barclays Center should make it harder to park, to scare drivers away from the arena. Here are 7 ideas:

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Babs Is Coming To Brooklyn!

Posted 05.09.2012

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Attention, people who need people: Barbra Streisand is coming home! Babs will take the stage at Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in October, marking ...

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WATCH: Brooklyn Nets Debut New Commercial

Posted 05.01.2012

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On the heels of unveiling a new logo designed by Jay-Z himself, the Brooklyn Nets have debuted a new commercial touting neighborhood roots and once ag...

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Christie Gets Super Sulky About Nets Moving To Brooklyn

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 04.24.2012

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NEWARK, N.J. -- Hours after Gov. Chris Christie bid the Brooklyn-bound team good riddance, the stars of the team's 35-year stay in the Garden State ga...

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Barclays Center To Sell 'Brooklynized' Water Made In Florida

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Video, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Bruce Ratner, NY Around Town, Atlantic Yards, New York Food, The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co., New York News

Despite a declaration to envelop itself in "quintessentially Brooklyn" cuisine, Barclays Center will be selling "Brooklyn" branded water produced some...

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Massive Atlantic Yards Stadium Searching For Brooklyn-y Food Vendors

Posted 02.29.2012

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The future home of the Brooklyn Nets is looking to embrace its borough moniker with local food vendors serving up "quintessentially Brooklyn" cuisine....

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WATCH: Future Home Of Brooklyn Nets Almost Complete

Posted 02.27.2012

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After years of controversy, Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards--future home of the Brooklyn Nets--is "much more than halfway complete" according to Bob...

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The Brooklyn Nets -- How Sweet the Sound

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 12.03.2011

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Robert E. Murphy

The Brooklyn Nets. Only people around here who are my age or older can quite appreciate the significance of those words.

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Jay-Z Announces New Name For Brooklyn NBA Team

Posted 11.26.2011

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Jay-Z announced Monday morning that the Nets will be called the Brooklyn Nets when the team moves from New Jersey to its new home next fall at the Bar...

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Atlantic Yards Twist: Judge Agrees State Agency Catered To Developer Forest City Ratner

Norman Oder | Posted 09.17.2011

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Norman Oder

The new decision, if no slam dunk, is more than a "minor victory." As previous Atlantic Yards litigation has shown, state judges rarely second-guess state agencies.

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BAM Will Put On Performances At New Brooklyn Nets Arena

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.30.2011

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NEW YORK — A little Shakespeare with your basketball? The developers of a new arena for the NBA's Nets that is under construction in Brooklyn sa...

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WATCH: Trailer For Atlantic Yards Doc 'Battle For Brooklyn'

Posted 08.15.2011

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Seven years of footage gathered from the beginning of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards saga in 2003 follows Prospect Heights activist Daniel Goldstein, the l...

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Barclays Bar Will Bring Drunk Nets Fans To Hood: Slopers

Park Slope, NY Patch | Stephen Brown | Email the Author | 1:15pm | Posted 06.26.2011

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Prime 6 was only the tip of the iceberg. Hot off the heels of a fight over one sports bar near the Barclays Center, a new showdown is brewing betwe...

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Atlantic Yards Likely Future: 'An Arena And A Large Parking Lot'

Posted 06.04.2011

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In a 2004 press release, Forest City Enterprises pitched the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards project as a development that would "become an integral part of t...

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Nets Tickets On Sale At Unfinished Atlantic Yards Stadium

Prospect Heights, NY Patch | Stephen Brown | Posted 06.01.2011

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The opening is over a full season away, but the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets are already selling tickets to the Barclays Center arena. The "All A...

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Brooklyn BP Markowitz's Atlantic Yards Falsehood (Video)

Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, New Jersey Nets, Forest City Ratner, Barclays Center, Urban Planning, Eb-5, Bruce Ratner, Forest City Enterprises, Green Cards, Atlantic Yards, Immigration, New York News, Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn, New York News
Norman Oder

Brooklyn's not close to "1000 percent behind Atlantic Yards." Did Markowitz really think no one would notice such a claim?

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Reuters Nails Promoters of Green Cards for Investments as Liars, Gets Dubious Excuses on Brooklyn Arena

Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Oder

A couple of astonishing things happened last week in coverage of the EB-5 immigration visa program -- green cards for investments -- the dubious use of which I've investigated for months regarding Atlantic Yards.

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Anatomy of a Green Card Pitch: In China, Atlantic Yards Backers Rely on the Distraction of Basketball

Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Oder

The next astounding step for Brooklyn developer Forest City Ratner involves raising a $249 million interest-free loan from 498 Chinese millionaires seeking green cards.

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Atlantic Yards: Judge Slams State Development Agency for "Failure of Transparency"

Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Oder

A ruling in the last Atlantic Yards lawsuit laid bare just how the state cut corners to favor developer Forest City Ratner, allowing a 25-year buildout while insisting the project could get done in just ten years.

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A Tennis Center Grows In Brooklyn?

New York Post | MARK DeCAMBRE | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barclays Capital is aiming to serve up professional tennis at the Barclays Center, which is being erected as the future home of the New Jersey Nets in...

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Is New York Architecture Past Its Prime?

Capital New York | Mark Hay | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Center for Architecture currently has, on exhibition, a piece called the "liquid wall," the winner of a competition for "innovative" material for ...

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Green Cards for Sale? Atlantic Yards Backers Seek Chinese Investors

Norman Oder | Posted 05.25.2011

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Norman Oder

If a seven-city promotional tour in China is successful, here's what may happen: 498 millionaires will park $500,000 for five years in an investment fund organized for the developer of Atlantic Yards.

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Daniel Goldstein, Last Atlantic Yards Holdout, Agrees To Sell For $3 Million

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The last holdout in a long-running land dispute with the developer of an NBA arena agreed Wednesday to sell his home on the site for ...

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Atlantic Yards Groundbreaking: Nets Arena Development Gets Underway

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Officials broke ground Thursday on a much-delayed 22-acre development project that will bring the NBA's New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn. ...

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Barclays Center Design Plans Released (PICTURES)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Renderings for the Atlantic Yards Barclays Center were revealed yesterday. After many years of controversy and lawsuits, a groundbreaking ceremony for...

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