Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report

News you can use: an article headlined  Brooklyn Nets dancers, the Brooklynettes, went to Barbados to shoot 2016 swimsuit calendar  is near the top of the Daily News home page, below. Note that one photo from the calendar shows a plane from JetBlue, which is a Barclays Center sponsor . Synergy! (Oh, and the Daily News is/was a sponsor of the arena plaza.)

Just in case you're wondering whether WPIX is fulfilling its marketing partnership with the Barclays Center, well, consider the 7/6/15 press release from the Brooklyn Nets,  BROOKLYNETTES DANCE TEAM TO HOLD OPEN AUDITIONS FOR 2015-16 BROOKLYN NETS SEASON : BROOKLYN (July 6, 2015) – The Brooklyn Nets will hold open auditions for the Brooklynettes dance team on Sunday, July 12 at 11 a.m. at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Center on the LIU Brooklyn campus at 1 University Plaza. Registration begins at 10 a.m. The Brooklynettes, presented by Crunch Fitness, will perform at all Brooklyn Nets games at Barclays Center during the 2015-16 season and represent the team at events throughout the New York metropolitan area and internationally. Special guest judges will be in attendance throughout the week, including celebrity choreographers Luam, Manwé, Nick Kenkel, and Bloc Talent Agency's Fatima Wilson. Then came a 7/8/15 promotional piece on WPIX,  Brooklynettes dance team looking fo...

In a recent conversation I had with a guy from a city where an arena's being built, I was asked how things changed in the public discourse before and after construction. Before construction, I said, there was some press interest in the counter-narrative, critical questions of fairness and oversight. After construction, I warned, there was more than enough going on at the arena--sports, concerts, new promotions--to suck up much of the press attention. (Consider: who knew that food trucks and valet parking for bikes would get so much play?) The Daily News comes up big And it sure helps when one major media outlet, the New York Daily News, is entangled for business reasons, serving as sponsor of the Barclays Center plaza. Indeed, thanks to this tweeted photo from the Brooklyn Nets' Petra Pope, we can see that the Daily News published a two-page spread with a photo of the new Brooklynettes cheerleaders. Online, the Daily News posted a gallery of photos from the open...