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September 3, 2012
FALL PREVIEW: NIGHT LIFE
The New Yorker
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BARCLAYS CENTER
If you don’t follow hip-hop, professional basketball, international finance, or the Brooklyn real-estate market, you might not know that Brooklyn is getting an arena. The Barclays Center, a nineteen-thousand-seat concert hall and basketball court near the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, is set to open this fall. (It’s next to the location of a proposed domed—and ultimately doomed—stadium for the Dodgers, which was to be designed by R. Buckminster Fuller all those years ago, but let’s not get into that now.) The home-borough hero Jay-Z, who is a part owner of the arena’s main tenant, the Brooklyn Nets, christens the space with a series of shows starting Sept. 28.
NoLandGrab: And if you don't follow the Atlantic Yards fight, you might call someone who owns just one-fifteenth of one percent of a team a "part owner."
Posted by eric at September 3, 2012 1:19 PM