Travelling northbound on Fifth Avenue toward Flatbush Avenue, the Barclays Center now dominates the view, as the shape of the basketball arena that the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets plan to call home in the 2012-2013 season takes form. In the midday heat, Atlantic Center is now cast in shadows from the steel frame as it continues to fly up. Installation on the arena’s stadium seating has begun and work on the arena’s frame continues to move along. Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner expects to begin work on the façade as early as this month. Demolition and excavation still continues …

The Barclays Center continues to fly up – now each week progress is obvious, the shape of the basketball arena that the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets plan to call home in the 2012-2013 season more visible. The majority of the arena’s foundation has been laid, with efforts now focused on erecting the steel frame of the arena itself. Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner expects to begin work on the façade as early as June. Demolition and excavation still continues on the Long Island Railroad/Vanderbilt Yard side of the site. Every month, we'll take a look at the progress the work crews …

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 …

The Barclays Center is beginning to take shape, its steel frame rising up behind the blue wall encasing Atlantic Yards development. For the first time, the shape of the basketball arena that developer Bruce Ratner hopes to open for the 2012-2013 season is clearly visible. 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.

The first signs of the Barclays Center are beginning to peek up over the blue wall encasing Atlantic Yards development. Steel girders are looming over Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, and construction workers now can be seen balancing on the beams that will form the structure of the basketball arena that developer Bruce Ratner hopes to open for the 2012-2013 season. This month, there were developments behind the scenes, too — last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tapped Cobble Hill native and former Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Kenneth Adams to run the Empire State Development Agency, which …