From the New York Times: Barclays Center opening seen as bright spot in 2012 (except...)

From the New York Times, What to Expect in New York in 2013:

If the phrase “annus horribilis” had not already worked its way into the language — thank you, Queen Elizabeth II — some New Yorker thinking deep, year-end thoughts would surely have coined it for 2012.

Not that everything went wrong, of course.

Fans were happy when Brooklyn got a new sports and entertainment center, not to mention a basketball team.

Of course fans were happy. But you can click through to the link, a sports column headlined Packing Brooklyn’s Arena and Packing Away Discord, and read the comments to see what gets ignored. Again.

Also mentioned in the article, under Development:

In Brooklyn, the first of 15 residential towers is under construction at Atlantic Yards.