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March 11, 2010
BACK IN THE U-S-S-YARDS: Liveblogging the Barclays Center Groundbreaking
Curbed.com's Lockhart Steele covers the heckles and jeckles behind the front lines at Bruce Ratner's groundtaking fest, replete with self-deprecating gubernatorial humor, lobster rolls and potato knishes and this shout out to architectural firms Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects from the land-grabbing developer himself, "They designed a new Barclays Center that is cool and gorgeous and awesome." [Like totally, fer sure!]
CURBEDWIRE: Jay-Z's Hardhat Style
The city has distributed this up-close photo of Bruce, Mike, Dave, Marty, Jigga and the gang putting shovel to dirt.
Posted by lumi at March 11, 2010 6:20 PM