Brooklyn SkyBox: And so begins Brooklyn’s bro era
More ultimate than Buffalo Wild Wings? via Here’s Park Slope Things have been relatively peaceful in the months since the LIBOR Barclays Center landed in Fort Greene. Residents have been able to fight...
View ArticleReddit co-founder looking to buy Jay-Z’s Nets share
Is this the new face of the Nets? (via flickr user Scott Beale) Now that Jay-Z’s severing his last, tepid ties to Brooklyn and throwing in the Nets towel, it’s time for someone new to reign over Kings...
View ArticleHelp bring the 2015 NBA All Star game to Brooklyn
Finally, you can see some good basketball at Barclays Now that Brooklyn has a professional sports team again, it’s about time it starts getting some bonus sporting events to go with it. And now, we’re...
View ArticleThe Islanders (might be) getting a makeover before moving to BK
LOLwut. via the fever dream of someone at the New York Post The Islanders, who have been stuck in the virtual desert that is Uniondale for their entire history, are now moving to Brooklyn. This (and...
View ArticleSave a hero, sign up to be a bone marrow donor
Steve Bonano Last time we were publicizing a blood drive, it was in relation to the attacks in Boston, but you’ve got a chance to do some good in your own backyard now. 9/11 first responder, Navy vet,...
View ArticleHopefully no stadium pricing: Barclays hosting food trucks on Saturday
Finally, a decent reason to head to Barclays. via Facebook Here’s something frustrating: having to actually chase down food trucks, since they aren’t always in the same place. Of course, if they were,...
View ArticleFood trucks coming back to Barclays, this time with music
Underground Horns sometimes play aboveground. via Facebook We previously told you about the plans to have food trucks hang out in front of the LIBOR Barclays Center on a few Saturdays this summer. And...
View ArticleWe’re gon’ let you finish but – here’s how to get free VMA tix
Be there if it happens again As has been reported, the MTV Video Music Awards are coming to the Barclays Center this month. We won’t do an old person joke about how they don’t play videos anymore,...
View ArticleThe VMAs are in town. Let’s party to MTV’s glory days instead
Money for nothin’. Poster by Meghan Doherty The MTV Video Music Awards are in Brooklyn for the first time this weekend, and this makes us laugh, mainly while thinking of the Kim Kardashians and their...
View ArticleDeal for Brooklyn to share 2015 All-Star Game is like kissing your sister
Nets’ owner Mikhail Prokohorov misses out on another great opportunity to use his machine gun A tie, Navy football coach Eddie Erdelatz once said, is like kissing your sister. It’s a manly thing to...
View ArticleBarclays Center getting GQ-branded barbershop
Brook Lopez volunteering to trim some beards while he’s on the disabled list We’ll give Nets owner and firearms aficionado Mikhail Prokhorov credit where it’s due: with his expensive team floundering...
View ArticleThe best places in New York City to dump someone
Man, she did not like that valentine. As we learned yesterday, relationships crash and burn more often than they work out. If you’re currently unsatisfied and thinking of making a change in your life,...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Season 4 premiere is coming…to the Barclays Center
They’re making things cuter for Brooklyn. Nah, just kidding, there’s still gonna be blood everywhere. via Facebook We’re all praying for spring, but things are going to stay icy in Brooklyn all the way...
View ArticleAtlantic Yards housing update: You will not live to see these apartments
Pictured: Apartments in Atlantic Yards that may or may not ever be built. via A/N Blog It might be hard to remember, but the Barclays Center wasn’t supposed to be the only gigantic thing built in the...
View ArticleLong Island Islanders returning to Barclays Center in September
Still the best suggested Islanders rebrand we’ve come across. via the New York Post In between hosting country music concerts, for all of Brooklyn’s many country fans coming from Brooklyn’s 385 country...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio trying to attract DNC to Brooklyn, for some awful reason
We would rather chop off our hands than see Brooklyn overrun with shitbirds like this for even a day, much less a week In case you didn’t know, there’s a presidential election in 2016. For president of...
View ArticleThe Brooklynettes are looking for a few good dancers
This could be you next season. Not shown: The Net’s 6-43 record. via Facebook Give me a B! Give me an R! Give me a chance to shake it in a skimpy sparkly costume in the Barclays Center? Check. In...
View ArticleHow to keep the DNC from coming to Brooklyn
This is our future. Unless we fight. Terrifying Jonah photoshop by Chris Giganti Despite our howling protests asking him not to, lousy old Mayor de Blasio has decided to put in a bid for Brooklyn to...
View ArticleGroupon snags you $30 tickets for Arcade Fire show at Barclays
They’re ready to party. Or at least as ready as the Arcade Fire can be to party. So you missed the Arcade Fire when they played Bushwick, and you’ve been regretting it ever since. Good thing you can...
View ArticleLast night’s Nets game was delayed by a leaky roof
Yeah, we’ve been there If you live in New York City long enough, you will eventually have to deal with the prospect of a leaky roof when it rains. Apparently this universal problem extends to our...
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