I don't get these reports as often as I used to, but I don't think it's because Barclays Center is today consistently calm after events. It's just that fewer people report it. But an arena neighbor sent me a couple of videos shot early this morning, at about 12:45 am, after the Sexyy Red show ( calendar ) had ended at the arena. As the first video shows, the number of garbage cans (few) was not enough for the plastic cups and garbage strewn on the arena plaza, sponsored by Ticketmaster. If the arena doesn't have a late-shift cleanup crew--and it didn't look like it--well, presumably that was cleared by this morning. Around the corner As the video below shows, there was some impromptu vending along Flatbush Avenue. As has been obvious, unlicensed vendors (and scalpers) operate regularly outside the arena for all kinds of events, from concerts to family shows to basketball games. That's not (regularly) enforced, just as numerous traffic violatio
Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report
This watchdog blog, by journalist Norman Oder, concerns the $6B project to build the Barclays Center arena & 15-16 towers at a crucial site in Brooklyn. Dubbed Atlantic Yards by developer Forest City Ratner in 2003, it was rebranded Pacific Park Brooklyn in 2014 after the Chinese government-owned Greenland USA bought a 70% stake going forward. In 2018, once the arena & four towers were built, Greenland bought out most of Forest City's stake, then sold three leases to other companies.