1+ week, 5+ day ago   (441+ words) The Barclays Center today circulated its September 2026 event calendar, which includes 15 ticketed events: 13 concerts and two New York Liberty games. That’s a significant uptick from September 2025, when there were seven concerts and one Liberty game, while dates needed to be…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1724+ words) This is part of coverage of the philanthropy of Joe and Clara Wu Tsai, the billionaires who own most of Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, which includes the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty, and the Barclays Center operating company. My coverage has…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (928+ words) My recent coverage of a short documentary keyed to the tenth anniversary of the Barclays Center reminded me of this anniversary-related article that I needed to update and publish. Since its September 2012 opening, the Barclays Center, home to the Brooklyn…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1822+ words) New York State is willing to consider remarkably dense projects, with the justification “New York City’s housing crisis” One parcel just north of Hudson Yards would have bulk, expressed in Floor Area Ratio, similar to what’s proposed at Site 5 of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1803+ words) A new total: 8,812 units, of which 2,616 (30%) would be below-market “affordable” Given the lag in building promised affordable units, there’d be a net gain of only 366 affordable units overall, and even fewer low-income ones With construction starting in 2028, the first affordable…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1781+ words) The Knicks galvanized something civic throughout the city. The Brooklyn Nets may be irrelevant for now, but things can change. The percentage of people acting out (fires, violence) in Midtown may have been small, but the margin for error in…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (626+ words) As some readers know, I’ve used this Substack for more in-depth articles over the last 2.5 years and kept shorter articles, including those reliant on press releases, on my long-running Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park blog.1 I typically cover the Barclays Center’s…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1728+ words) On April 30, just under the wire for a promised April delivery, Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/shepherds the project, released a Final Community Engagement Report regarding the planning process that began last November. It serves to…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1811+ words) What might Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park look like under the pending new plan from developers Cirrus Workforce Housing and LCOR? It involves adding 1.6 million square feet—free “land” worth perhaps $320 million—to the originally approved bulk and eliminating the B8 tower,…...