The Brooklyn Rollout media blitz continues Friday when Bruce Ratner will be a guest on Bloomberg Television at 8:35 am Ratner, now listed as Barclays Center developer, will be asked about Barbra Streisand and the Nets on Bloomberg's morning program..
YES has posted an updated video of Mikhail Prokhorov's tour of Barclays Center and his meeting with fans Tuesday. In the new version, Bruce Ratner serves as tour guide and shows off some features of the arena. Among them: the Nets practice facility set between the Courtside Club and a Starbucks.
For your post-game viewing: Barclays Center majority owner and Nets minority owner Bruce Ratner will be a guest on the Charlie Rose Show at 12:30 a.m. tonight on Channel 13. Ratner will talk about the progress at Barclays Center and how it will be integrated into Brooklyn's social and cultural fabric.
If halftime hits around 9 p.m. Wednesday, you might want to switch from YES to Bloomberg News to catch Bruce Ratner talk about progress at the Barclays Center. Ratner, who is Barclays Center developer and majority owner, will be a guest on the Bloomberg sports business show, "Sportfolio."
After he walked off with $3 million in Bruce Ratner's money a year and a half ago, Daniel Goldstein portrayed himself as a bit of a vagabond, not homeless but looking for his next home nonetheless. He found it, a couple of miles away from the Barclays Center in Park Slope. But the story doesn't end there. It seems the house on 15th Street isn't big enough for Goldstein, his wife and nearly three-year-old daughter. So they're putting up an addition that has neighbors fuming. They're so angry with the addition (and Goldstein's refusal to respond to them) that they are threatening a "six year lawsuit." Sound familiar...or maybe just ironic?
FOX5's "Good Day New York" will be broadcasting live from the Barclays Center site Monday, waiting for Jay-Z's "major announcements". Rosanna Scotto will interview Bruce Ratner and Brett Yormark at 9:00 a.m., Albert King at 9:30, and finally Jay-Z at 9:40. The Press Conference begins at 10 and will be streamed live on both the Nets and Barclays Center websites. Registration is required.
Bruce Ratner, like Mikhail Prokhorov and Jay-Z, will have his own suite at the Barclays Center and is promising an 18-year-old South Sudanese boy a seat on Opening Night. Ratner and his political analyst sister Ellen have "adopted" Ker Deng, a blind, torture victim of Sudan's civil war. They met Deng last April and brought him to New York, quietly providing him with eye surgery, schooling and a caretaker. Ratner's gone public because the boy's visa is running out. "If you are still here, I am going to take you to the first Nets game and explain everything," Ratner told Deng recently.
Wednesday, Barclays Center developer and Nets minority owner Bruce Ratner will be interviewed on Bloomberg Television at 8:15 a.m., followed by Nets CEO Brett Yormark on WCBS Radio 880 at 9:30 a.m. Both are expected to discuss progress at the Barclays Center construction site. Yormark can be expected to discuss the sale of premium ticket plans for Barclays Center, which begin Thursday.
Before the Nets break ground in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon, they'll be making multiple appearances on the air. Brett Yormark will be a guest on WFAN with Boomer and Carton at 6:45 a.m., while Bruce Ratner will appear on Channel 5's Good Day NY at 8:15 a.m. and on WFAN with Joe and Evan at 10:45 a.m. Coverage of the groundbreaking begins at 1:15 on barclayscenter.com and at 1:30 on YES.