Inside the Barclays Center
A monthly photo essay documenting the construction of the Atlantic Yards development and the Barclays Center, which the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets will soon call home.
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The Atlantic Yards construction site, viewed from the Dean Street entrance near Sixth Avenue.
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The Barclays Center is now looming impressively over intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, the shape of the basketball arena that the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets plan to call home in the 2012-2013 season clearly visible.
About 70 percent of the foundation has been laid, and 30 percent of the steel is in place. Next week, the stadium seating will arrive from Detroit and Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner expects to begin work on the façade as early as June.
Every month, we'll take a look at the progress the work crews are making. As the Barclays Center and the rest of the development rise along neighborhood’s border, we'll take note as each beam is raised each wall is erected and each building demolished.
Peter
10:42 am on Tuesday, April 5, 2011
So the news is out today that the new plan for Atlantic Yards is that nothing beyond the stadium will be built anytime soon, and that the rest of the space is going to be turned into gigantic parking lots.
What a complete and utter disaster. As if traffic in the area isn't bad enough already. Someone *please* take AY away from Ratner.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/nba_deal_is_net_loss_for_klyn_0jQTL97MrYcvmOMqct4TOK
Matt Law
4:20 pm on Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Some of these photos are artistically very sharp.