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April 19, 2012
Residents Worried About Drunken ‘Rowdiness’ Coming From Barclays Center
CBS New York
by Holly Haerr
Brooklynites around the new Barclays Center are not ready to raise a pint to the Nets and their fans.
Some residents are concerned about what crowds of fans will do if they drink a lot during games or concerts and come into the surrounding neighborhoods after events at the soon-to-be home of the Brooklyn Nets.
“If you ask me, I wouldn’t have any alcohol at all. It makes people act crazy,” one Park Slope resident told 1010 WINS’ Holly Haerr. “It’s a big concern to me because I’m an older person. I don’t like it.”
...“The arena operators are acting as if they don’t need the support of the local community and, you know, that’s a scary proposition for people who are going to have to live next to this arena for decades — for the rest of their lives,” said Gib Veconi, Treasurer of the Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council.
Posted by eric at April 19, 2012 11:26 AM