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December 21, 2011
Brooklyn's Top 25 News Stories Of 2011
The L Magazine
9. Atlantic Yards Ascendant (Meh.) After years of lawsuits and controversy, construction began on the Barclays Center, its shell rising up above Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Fort Greene. Jay-Z announced the basketball team would be called “The Brooklyn Nets” (whoop-dee-do), while the bar Freddy’s—an icon of the displaced—opened a new location in South Slope. Oh, and those local jobs for construction workers don’t seem to be materializing. Shocking.
Posted by eric at December 21, 2011 10:49 AM