[NYguy]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/lam_dunk_in_klyn_5eZqK867A5dueJQF8kcxYO

A $lam dunk in Brooklyn: Net-Knick tix at $800

By RICH CALDER
October 23, 2012

Welcome to Brooklynsanity. Tickets to the Nets’ first regular-season game at the new Barclays Center against the crosstown rival Knicks are commanding an average of $800.87 a pop on StubHub and other secondary-market sites.

The sold-out Nov. 1 contest is the hottest ducat for a Big Apple sporting event since the Yankees won the 2009 World Series, says Chris Matcovich of TiqIQ, which tracks secondary-market ticket prices. It even surpasses the $675.43 ticket average Madison Square Garden saw for a Knicks-Mavericks game in February, when Jeremy Lin was still a Knick and “Linsanity” reached its peak.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/10/23...nd_rents_revealed_for_atlantic_yards.php

Construction Schedule and Rents Revealed for Atlantic Yards

October 23, 2012
by Jessica Dailey

The schedule for the 14 residential Atlantic Yards towers is not quite what was originally proposed. During an investors meeting on Monday, Forest City Ratner Executive VP MaryAnne Gilmartin said that the seven towers over the railyards would not be built until seven others are constructed first. The news comes from Atlantic Yards Report, which notes that covering the unsightly yards was a key point in the approval of the project. To build over the yards, a giant platform, like the $800 million platforms needed for Hudson Yards, has to be built.

The first three towers will be built on the same block as the Barclays Center, with the first, B2, breaking ground on December 18. Forest City Ratner is still working to secure financing for the tower, which may or may not be modular—they can't decide. The second wave would bring four towers on the block next to the arena, between Sixth and Carlton Avenues. The final phase would see the seven towers over the railyards. All told, there will be 6,400 apartments.