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	The New York Observer Politicker: Brooklyn Traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Foes of the Brooklyn Nets arena have had a hard time linking it to the West Side stadium fight or turning it into a West Side-style showdown.
		After all, the arena is smaller, the project includes lots of sub-market-rate housing, and the dynamic of who in the neighborhood supports it is complicated.
		The wonky wing of the Nets opposition, though, makes an interesting case about how much traffic the Ratner project and a host of other developments are going to bring to downtown Brooklyn in a letter to Gifford Miller from consultant Brian Ketcham, obtained by the Politicker, and set to be released later today.
	thepoliticker.observer.com /2005/06/brooklyn-traffic.html (306 words)

	Atlantic Yards Arena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The arena will welcome some of the most exciting sports and entertainment events in the world: concerts, fine arts performances, circuses, NCAA college basketball games, hockey tournaments, and music award shows are just some of the possibilities.
		FCRC has worked with local organizations to ensure the arena is an integral part of the community, where local college and high school athletes will have a new stage to showcase their skills.
		The arena offers Brooklyn a world-class venue to come together, to cheer, to celebrate, to listen, to learn, to connect and allow Brooklyn to be Brooklyn...on the world's stage.
	www.atlanticyards.com /html/ay/arena.html (330 words)

	Design Build Network - Brooklyn Atlantic Yards, New York
		At the centre of the development will be the 800,000ft² Brooklyn Nets Arena, which will include a public park on the roof, ringed by an open-air running track that becomes a skating rink in winter.
		As well as providing a home for the Nets, the arena will be available to local youth athletic groups and schools as a sporting venue, and will also be a venue for concerts, community events and family entertainment.
		The arena is on a block occupied by retail and office space, and it will be open before the other elements are built.
	www.designbuild-network.com /projects/brooklyn (2127 words)

	Brooklyn Nets Arena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brooklyn Nets Arena is a proposed sports arena to be built partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Atlantic Yards at Atlantic Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
		The arena, along with the rest of the complex, is a project of Brooklyn developer Bruce Ratner, who acquired the Nets in 2004, with the purpose of moving them from New Jersey to this site near the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, one of the most transit-accessible locations in the city.
		The park on the arena's roof was originally promised to be public, but as of fall 2005, it will be a private facility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brooklyn_Nets_Arena (997 words)

	AHN \| An Arena Grows In Brooklyn: Nets Get Ok To Build \| June 2, 2007
		The plan includes the basketball arena as well as housing - up to 6,400 units - and office space to be built to invigorate the surrounding economy.
		Nets owner Bruce Ratner told AP, "We are ecstatic about what this signifies for the future of the Nets' organization and for our fans.
		We want all of our fans to remain part of the Nets' family and we are determined to make this transition as seamless and enjoyable as possible for all of our fans across the metro area.
	www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7005920167 (360 words)

	Develop-- don't destroy. Sat, June 2, 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Same lack of transparency and government accountability (in fact, far worse in the Brooklyn case, where the State is overriding the City Review Process and associated Public Hearings and denying the citizens their City Council vote for the entire 21 acre project - not just the stadium component).
		Instead, every time a citizen of Brooklyn complains, the Times resends the same letter they've been sending since February, weakly justifying their poor coverage by pointing to various superficial articles they've written on the Nets Arena, (which in no way remotely match the depth of the articles they've written on the Jets Stadium).
		THE ARENA as a piece of architecture, it would be misplaced and unattractive in the dead centre of five historic brownstone neighborhoods.
	www.dddb.net /nytimes.php (2537 words)

	Brooklyn - Free net encyclopedia
		The loss of Brooklyn's separate identity as a city was met with some consternation by some residents at the time, and later; the merger has been known as the "Great Mistake of 1898", as it was called by many newspapers of the day, and the phrase still denotes Brooklyn pride among old-time Brooklynites.
		Brooklyn, the 'Borough of Homes', can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times.
		Brooklyn's most beloved and cherished institution had left, and the move is cited by some historians as one of the catalysts for the decline of Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Brooklyn,_New_York (3625 words)

	BASKETBALL AND HOCKEY ARENAS
		In 1986, Denver’s McNichols Arena was renovated at a cost of $12.5 million to the city, but owners of basketball and hockey teams wanted a new one.
		The arena was built for the new professional basketball team, the Grizzlies, which started in 1995.
		The arena would be a showcase for professional sports and concerts, and draw new events to the city, like the Republican National Convention in 2000.
	gothamgazette.com /stadiums/3.html (711 words)

	SportingNews.com - NBA - Plans for Nets' Brooklyn arena revealed
		The 77-year-old architect said the complex's most prominent tower was inspired by a bride he glimpsed on one of several tours he made through the borough in an attempt to glean its character.
		Brooklyn is better known for its tough guys, but "if you had seen that bride, you would have fallen in love with her.
		Developer Bruce Ratner, who bought the Nets in 2004 with the intention to move the team from New Jersey to Brooklyn, estimates the price tag at $3.5 billion.
	www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=91422 (753 words)

	Brooklyn News
		A Brooklyn woman died yesterday after a fire in her sixth-floor apartment late Friday that also left her 2-year-old son critically injured.
		Police are investigating the death of a woman who was killed by an R train in Brooklyn Saturday morning.Metropolitan Transit Authority officials say the woman was standing on the platform at the 53rd Street...
		A Brooklyn student was taken to a hospital yesterday after he was bitten by a rodent in his classroom, city Department of Education sources said.
	www.topix.net /city/brooklyn-ny (761 words)

	Frank Gehry's massive Brooklyn development - UrbanPlanet.org
		Nets owner Bruce Ratner is thinking about using giant rollers to move one or more occupied residential buildings that would otherwise be destroyed if he builds the team's new arena on Atlantic Avenue.
		By PAUL H.B. Half of the new housing to be built with the proposed Nets arena in Brooklyn would be set aside for low- to middle-income families, developer Bruce Ratner pledged yesterday.
		Plowing ahead with plans to construct a $2.5 billion arena, office and housing complex in Prospect Heights, developer Bruce Ratner is now looking to construct a new building to house some of the residents his plan would displace.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=3448 (2257 words)

	Arena Digest -- June 17 - 23, 2005 Archives
		An arena plan 12 years in the making has finally been sent to the Minnesota Department of Finance to be considered for inclusion in the 2006 bonding bill.
		Those who voted in support of building an arena in the Marina District five years ago are understandably upset about the the recent study results but the decision ultimately rests in the mayor's hands, who's certainly found himself in a no-win situation on this one.
		These results, if accepted by the arena task force and local lawmakers, are sure to throw a curveball into the planning for a new arena, which seemed a foregone conclusion that it would be downtown.
	www.arenadigest.com /archives/2005/june17_june23.htm (3855 words)

	New York’s Proposed Stadiums and Arenas (Gotham Gazette. May 2, 2005)
		In Newark, the housing authority diverted $3.9 million in federal funds meant for low-income residents to a new arena designed to keep the Nets basketball team from moving to Brooklyn.
		And 12 baseball stadiums, nine football stadiums, and eight basketball arenas are being promised for the future, according to League of Fans, which was founded by Ralph Nader.
		Indoor arenas are used for basketball and hockey, seat around 20,000 people, and cost the least.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/issueoftheweek/20050502/200/1402 (950 words)

	"Who was push-polling on the Nets arena in Brooklyn?," wrote John McCrory
		FCR is proposing to build a 6-square block, 21-acre complex in Downtown Brooklyn that they say would include a 19,000-seat arena, 17 skyscrapers and 4,500 housing units.
		Nets arena plan may be scaled back to preserve housing, NY Newsday, March 31, 2004
		Near the end of the call, he asked what name I liked best for Ratner's basketball team: Brooklyn Nets, Brooklyn Kings, New York Nets, etc. — all of which I thought were pretty dull, and one of which, the "Kings" doesn't make sense since there's already the Sacramento Kings.
	www.johnmccrory.com /wrote.asp?this=298 (1524 words)

	BROOKLYN
		Brooklyn is about 73 square miles, with 50 miles of shoreline and approximate dimensions of 11.5 x 9.5 miles.
		Brooklyn is special in many ways as history reminds us: the Brooklyn bridge is New York's most famous bridge, Coney Island was America's first Disneyland, Battle Hill in the Green-wood cemetery was the site of the first skirmish of the American revolution.
		The Brooklyn Nets Arena is a proposed US$3.5 billion sports arena, business and residential complex to be built partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Atlantic Yards at Atlantic Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
	www.carnaval.com /brooklyn (4874 words)

	FactSheet - Fans For Fair Play ( FFFP )
		Finally, the scale of the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards is a kick in the gut for the surrounding neighborhoods.
		Imagine Brooklyn's traffic nightmare at 6pm on a weekeday - all the new office workers who've driven will be pulling onto the streets at the same time a 7pm Nets game will see people arriving from outside the borough.
		If the Nets play on a Monday night, there's a hip-hop fest or a Pearl Jam concert on Wednesday, and the Nets are back home on Friday, that doesn't mean that Sebastian Telfair's Lincoln High can hit the arena's hardwood on the off nights.
	www.fansforfairplay.com /factsheet.html (7042 words)

	When the Nets arrive to Brooklyn... - Message Board Basketball Forum - InsideHoops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Brooklyn though part of Greater New York, is still considered part of New York City.
		Brooklyn is simply a subway ride from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
		The Nets are being built next to the 3rd largest subway station in NYC.
	www.insidehoops.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2970 (783 words)

	ESPN.com - NBA - Major step: Current owners approve Nets' sale
		NEW YORK -- The New Jersey Nets were officially sold Friday to a Brooklyn developer intent on moving them across the Hudson River -- a move immediately hailed in New York for returning big-time sports to the borough.
		While best known as the spurned home of baseball's Dodgers, Brooklyn has produced a fair number of basketball stars: coaches Lenny Wilkens of the New York Knicks and Larry Brown of the Detroit Pistons, current Knicks guard Stephon Marbury, and ex-NBA greats Chris Mullin and Billy Cunningham.
		Work on the arena would begin next year and finish in time for the 2006 NBA season, leaving the lame duck Nets to play the next two seasons in New Jersey.
	sports.espn.go.com /nba/news/story?id=1716317 (672 words)

	Gehry in Brooklyn (Atlantic Yards) - Wired New York Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Architect Frank Gehry is scheduled to unveil a design for a Brooklyn basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets on Wednesday, days after the team reached a deal to dissolve its partnership with the New York Yankees.
		That allows Nets owners Lewis Katz and Ray Chambers to proceed with their plans to sell the club, which reached the NBA Finals the past two seasons.
		In addition to the arena, the designs are to include plans for new housing and commercial outlets in the area.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4322 (808 words)

	No sleep 'till Brooklyn: Nets get arena OK - NBA - NBCSports.com
		ALBANY, N.Y. Clearing the way for major pro sports to return to Brooklyn for the first time since the Dodgers left in 1957, New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner's $4 billion redevelopment project was approved Wednesday.
		The project that could reshape Brooklyn with the basketball arena, office towers and thousands of apartments was approved after months of maneuvering among New York state's top political leaders.
		It faces a federal lawsuit from Brooklyn property owners and tenants who have charged that the seizure of their property under eminent domain was unconstitutional.
	www.nbcsports.com /nba/683506/detail.html (1065 words)

	(AP) Nets' Brooklyn Arena: Barclays Center \| WKRN.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nets owner Bruce Ratner announced Thursday the 18,000-seat stadium designed by architect Frank Gehry will be called The Barclays Center when it opens later this decade.
		That total would be among the steepest ever paid for the naming rights to an indoor American sports arena, but comparable to the $20 million per year that Citigroup Inc. reportedly agreed to pay to name the New York Mets stadium being built in Queens.
		Nets stars Jason Kidd and Vince Carter, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NBA commissioner David Stern, Gehry and Nets minority owner and rapper Jay-Z attended Thursday's announcement at the Brooklyn Museum.
	www.wkrn.com /nashville/news/ap-nets-brooklyn-arena-barclays-center/72201.htm (516 words)

	Brooklyn arena project gets safety net - News - NY Daily News
		State officials are rolling out measures they hope will minimize future disruptions in the Nets arena project in Brooklyn, a week after a partial building collapse in the area.
		Opponents of the plan to build 16 towers and a basketball arena said it remains to be seen if the measures go far enough to prevent mishaps such as the partial collapse of the Ward Baking Company building, which was undergoing prep work for demolition by developer Forest City Ratner.
		The April 26 collapse happened when a 200-foot-wide section of a parapet crashed onto Pacific St., raining debris on cars and forcing the evacuation of 300 people from a shelter next door.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/2007/05/07/2007-05-07_brooklyn_arena_project_gets_safety_net.html (275 words)

	Sports: Possible Nets move divides Brooklynites
		The possibility that developer Bruce Ratner will buy the New Jersey Nets and move them to a new arena near downtown Brooklyn is a chest-swelling shot of civic pride for a borough that's long lived in the shadow of Manhattan, many Brooklynites said.
		But for many who would be the team's neighbors - and for the hundreds who would be displaced by the new arena - Brooklyn Nets has an ugly ring to it.
		There are dozens of artists' lofts in old industrial buildings on the wind-swept stretch of railyards and multilane thoroughfares where Ratner wants to build a 19,000-seat arena at the heart of a $2.5-billion residential and commercial complex.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/01/18/Sports/Possible_Nets_move_di.shtml (651 words)

	Gothamist: The New Brooklyn
		The plans for the proposed buildings around the Brooklyn Nets arena have been revealed by architect Frank Gehry, and they show a dazzling group of skyscrapers at various angles.
		The NY Times calls it an "instant skyline" and notes that the plan is far from a sure thing, given that developer Bruce Ratner still faces a bit of community antipathy for his plans.
		The new Yankee Stadium is almost a reverse of this principal; an entirely new, state of the art, building that's anchored to the community around it, thanks to it's classic, timeless facade encasing it's modern interiors.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2005/07/05/the_new_brooklyn.php (4766 words)

	Charlotte Observer \| 12/21/2006 \| Nets' Brooklyn arena gets green light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If the project proceeds as planned, the Nets would play their first season in Brooklyn in 2009-10.
		The state Public Authorities Control Board voted unanimously to authorize the Atlantic Yards development, a sprawling reuse of an area near a downtown Brooklyn railyard that would include a new home for the Nets.
		King consulted with Brown on the Iverson trade, which ended with the former MVP dealt to Denver.
	www.charlotte.com /mld/observer/sports/16287200.htm (249 words)

	Field of Schemes: Nets arena questions and answers (and more questions)
		Bertha Lewis, head of ACORN, discussed her group's recent agreement with Ratner to retain 50% of the housing for low- and middle-income residents (though Ratner has been insisting this would be the case for more than a year now).
		Ratner wouldn't be paying taxes on the arena property, which would generally be considered a subsidy.
		This is a repeat of the New York Jets situation in Manhattan, where the team wanted to use its PILOT payments to pay off its own stadium costs, while simultaneously paying a land price that treats the PILOTs as taxes that make the property that much less valuable.
	www.fieldofschemes.com /news/archives/001215.html (1202 words)

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