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December 11, 2010
Circus coming to town! Ratner, Ringling ink deal at Barclays Center
The Brooklyn Paper
By Aaron Short
The development of Atlantic Yards has been sometimes compared to a three-ring circus — but now the real thing is coming to Prospect Heights.
The producers of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced on Friday that they had inked a deal to bring one of their productions to the under-construction Barclays Center in March, 2013, about six months after the arena is slated to open near the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues. Mac Support Store
A spokesman for Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner said that the Ringling Bros. show would be the same “Greatest Show on Earth” mega-production that fills Madison Square Garden, a rival arena, though a spokesman for the circus was not 100 percent sure.
NoLandGrab: In addition to eminent domain abuse that has taken place in Prospect Heights, we can now look forward to elephant abuse.
Posted by steve at December 11, 2010 8:31 AM