With groundbreaking near, Barclays Center is becoming more and more real for those living near it...and for Nets management. Aside from the new controversy over the bank's history and the continuing barrage of lawsuits, there is the slowly dawning reality of what a World Trade Center-sized complex going up among brownstones will mean. Residents are divided and some are leaving. Meanwhile, the Nets are alreadly putting together Brooklyn ticket plans!
- Brooklyn's basketball city evokes fear, hope amid gentrification - David B. Caruso - AP
- Earplugs, Anyone? Selling In Atlantic Yards Shadow - Matthew Schuerman - New York Observer
- Massive Brooklyn Development Designed by Frank Gehry Gets Green Light - Fred A. Bernstein - Architectural Record
- Gehry: New Ms. Brooklyn on the way - Stephen Witt - Brooklyn Courier Life
- All Drawn Out (Cartoon) - Christian Fleming - Brooklyn Paper
- Vox Pop: Ratner’s bank job - Michael Giardina - Brooklyn Paper
- Inside Ratner’s big deal$ - Ariella Cohen - Brooklyn Paper
- Nets Ticket Blitz Begins - Nets promise plenty of screecher seats - Stephen Witt - Brooklyn Courier Life
- Ratner feels heat on Barclays deal - Michael O'Keefe - New York Daily News
- Barclays pays big bucks to win name game - Stephen Witt - Brooklyn Courier Life