{"id":31541,"date":"2012-09-05T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=31541"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:37:32","slug":"barclays-center-brooklyn-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/31541\/barclays-center-brooklyn-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclays Center Opening This Month in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Four other countries have cities named Brooklyn, but only the U.S. has Barclays Center,” boasts a recent post on the Barclays Center Brooklyn Facebook page.<\/p>\n

On Atlantic Avenue in Park Slope, the shiny new 18,200-seat venue (with 19,000 seats for concerts) is ready to welcome the re-branded Brooklyn Nets basketball team. Barclays Center is a hop, skip and a jump on public transportation from almost anywhere you’re starting. Barclays is asking people to leave their cars at home and take their bikes, locking them up at one of the 400 bicycle parking spots.<\/p>\n

\"Jay-Z

The Brooklyn Nets home opener is November 1 against other borough-rival the New York Knicks. As the Nets website touts, \u201cBridges will be crossed.\u201d The Brooklyn Bridge, to be exact.<\/p>\n

\"Barclays

How to get there:<\/strong> Barclays Center will be accessible by 11 subway lines, the Long Island Rail Road, and 11 bus lines. Fans can take the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R to Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center stop or the C to Lafayette Ave or the G to Fulton Street. From out east, take the LIRR to Atlantic Terminal. To further discourage driving to the venue, motorists will be encouraged to park at a half-priced lot a mile away near the BQE, and take a free shuttle bus.<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos: NYMag\/Sean Perry, Barclays<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Four other countries have cities named Brooklyn, but only the U.S. has Barclays Center,” boasts a recent post on the Barclays Center Brooklyn Facebook page. On Atlantic Avenue in Park Slope, the shiny new 18,200-seat venue (with 19,000 seats for concerts) is ready to welcome the re-branded Brooklyn Nets basketball team. Barclays Center is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":31544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,271],"tags":[736,381,81,207,586,256,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-31541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-news","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-biking","11":"tag-concerts","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-live-music","14":"tag-performing-arts","15":"tag-subway"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":31544,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/7936454910_37eec81df8_z-296x300.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}