Thousand attend groundbreaking for Brooklyn arena
Quick ReadThere was a groundbreaking ceremony for a proposed 18,000-seat arena designed to bring the Nets to the borough's Atlantic Yards site.
Photo credit: Getty Images | Forest City Ratner Companies Chairman and CEO Bruce Ratner, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, New York State Governer David Paterson, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Rapper and Nets investor Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Barclays PLC President Robert R. Diamond pose for a photo at the ceremonial groundbreaking for Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards. (March 11, 2010)
Photos: Atlantic Yards work begins
Photos: Atlantic Yards project
Nets 113, Knicks 93
At the site where the long-demonized Walter O'Malley once proposed a baseball stadium to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn, a conga line of shakers and movers Thursday staged a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for a proposed 18,000-seat arena designed to bring the Nets to the borough's Atlantic Yards site, possibly by 2012.
Elaborate speeches delivered by dignitaries from Gov. David A. Paterson...
