With Roof Half Up, a View Inside

by Net Income on Nov 23, 2011 1:53 PM EST in Brooklyn

Billy King, prohibited from talking about players or the lockout or anything much else, has taken to distributing the latest pictures of the Barclays Center, tweeting this image from inside the arena Wednesday, the first since the roof paneling started going up early this month.

The arena should be fully enclosed in January and permanent power from ConEd will be turned out next week. Workers continue to work double and triple shifts and weekends to assure "schedule maintenance", that is completion by late August of next year and a grand opening of September 28 (which also just happens to be Brett Yormark's 45th birthday).

Meanwhile, Bruce Ratner has reached a deal with union leaders to permit him to build the first of 16 modular apartment buildings at Atlantic Yards. The agreement will result in lower construction costs (and wages) but would make it easier for Ratner to get financing for the 32-story tower at the arena's southeast corner.

Unions save Bruce with big pay cut to get Yards going - Daniel Bush - Brooklyn Paper

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Awesome!

Let the "trade talks" begin !

by faNETicS on Nov 23, 2011 1:58 PM EST reply actions

Proky needs to see this!

Looks like he’s still in Atlanta.
Spending Thanksgiving over there?

Let the "trade talks" begin !

by faNETicS on Nov 23, 2011 2:01 PM EST reply actions

Or will rush to New York to solve lockout???

"It's as sweet as it ever was, I'll tell you. Now, hopefully, we started something and we can win some more championships, but we're going to enjoy this one right now. Have a little champagne." --Julius Erving, May 12, 1976, ABA champion Nets locker room.

by Net Income on Nov 23, 2011 2:08 PM EST up reply actions

Just put Dwhight Howard in these white unis and sky is the limit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpCMK5HMp-s

by Belarus4life on Nov 23, 2011 4:13 PM EST reply actions

Those

Are some butt-ugly uniforms.

by xs0ng on Nov 23, 2011 4:47 PM EST up reply actions

Billy tweeted what I fear people will be doing.

“Barlcay Center” instead of “Barclays Center”

I think it's fine.

by NetsMets4Life on Nov 23, 2011 4:56 PM EST reply actions

Pick your poison

I take it that they either had to agree with what they were being given or Ratner will just simply fire them and hire a bunch of Chineese through the shady EB-5 Program.

by Tal Barzilai on Nov 23, 2011 6:35 PM EST reply actions

EB-5 visas go to investors not workers.

by Net Income on Nov 23, 2011 7:13 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Tal has never let the facts stand in the way of his arguments.

by nynjlawyer on Nov 23, 2011 9:03 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Can the say same back at you

Here is what No Land Grab had to say about this very thread, and please take your anger out on them, not on me, because I am only the messenger here, plus I didn’t say this, someone else did.

“If NetsDaily was written by real journalists rather than fans, they’d know that Bruce Ratner has reached no such deal. That conclusory tidbit is from an erroneous Brooklyn Paper report, but NetsDaily has never been long on facts.”

by Tal Barzilai on Nov 25, 2011 6:31 PM EST up reply actions

With his connections

Ratner can get away with anything even if it was murder.

by Tal Barzilai on Nov 23, 2011 7:40 PM EST up reply actions

if Ratner thought he could get away with murder...

never mind.

by Net Income on Nov 23, 2011 10:03 PM EST up reply actions

Simply a moronic comment

-Say man when I was growing up we wanted a Jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub.

by NetLogic on Nov 24, 2011 12:48 AM EST up reply actions

Chinese, not "Chineese"

by jerry25 on Nov 24, 2011 12:24 PM EST up reply actions

More Battle for Brooklyn screenings

Upcoming screenings:
Maysles Center, 343 Lenox Ave., between 127 & 128 streets, New York, NY
Dec 1, 7:30pm: Q&A with filmmakers
Dec 6, 7:30pm: Q&A with Mindy Fullilove and local community
Dec 9, 7:30pm: Q&A with Dan Goldstien

Brooklyn Heights, 70 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY
Nov 23, 6:00pm
Nov 30, 6:00pm

Indie Screen, 285 Kent Ave at S. 2 Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Nov 27, 5:00pm

http://battleforbrooklyn.com/post/12998894749/battle-for-brooklyn-the-story-of-one-neighborhoods

by Tal Barzilai on Nov 23, 2011 6:38 PM EST reply actions

not one of them will affect the march of progress at Atlantic Yards

by Net Income on Nov 23, 2011 7:12 PM EST up reply actions

Here's a deal

If you see this film just once, you will have every right to critcise it as much as you want,because at least you can tell others that you saw it. Also, I know there is something you want to say to DG himself, so one of those dates is a perfect oppurtunity to do so. If you don’t, then you have no legitimacy to state your view on it, and you will be just like a sexists who hates the WNBA without ever watching a game first. One other thing, I doubt that the Harlem location is charging anything, so you can probably see it for free there compared to the other two if money is an object to this.

by Tal Barzilai on Nov 23, 2011 7:43 PM EST up reply actions

I have the right to criticize it now.

your analogies are, as usual, extreme and exaggerated.

by Net Income on Nov 23, 2011 10:04 PM EST up reply actions

Why don't you video tape the play and upload it for all of us to see?

by jerry25 on Nov 24, 2011 12:25 PM EST up reply actions

Excuses rather than reasons

As usual, you make an excuse not to see this film. If you go on 12/1, you can talk to the filmakers themselves, while DG himself will be there on 12/9, and I know that you guys have questions that only they can answer, so here is your oppurtunity to do so. I only suggested you go the Harlem location, because it’s unlikely that they will be charging you anything, so you can now see it without paying anything in the fear that DDDB gets anything. BTW, some of your fellow supporters of the project such as Errol Louis and James Caudwell saw it, and they didn’t believe that it was biased towards the supporters, but rather neutral, and this was comming from those who love Ratner a lot. I am not saying that you have to like the film, but at least see it and then judge, BTW, the WNBA analogy plays well here, because most of those who have said someting negative about it never did see a game themselves, which could make them sexist. Also, I have said these analogies to those on the opposition, and they agreed with me on a lot of them. As for bootlegs, I am not in that business, because I don’t believe in breaking the law, but I am sure you can find someone else who has bootlegs copies of it if you don’t mind facing jail time, because I won’t be there to pay your bail just for your claim of being played. On a side note, The Battle for Brooklyn was recently playing in Pittsburgh, so that was a missed oppurtunity for jerry25, who lives in Harrisburgh, because it was in his area.

by Tal Barzilai on Nov 25, 2011 6:45 PM EST up reply actions