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Barclays Center To Initially Have Half The Parking It Promised
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Garth Johnston
Published May 3, 2012
Modified May 3, 2012
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While Brooklyn Heights is now freaking out over potentially 2,500 people filling its streets when a new Fieldhouse comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park, residents around the Atlantic Yards have been freaking for ages now about the 18,000 people expected to flood the area when the Nets start playing the Barclays Center this fall. And for them, there is good news today! The arena will initially have less parking than originally planned.
The State recently put the kibosh on plans to let the arena use hydraulic stacked parking at a surface parking lot next door (a larger underground lot is planned, but won't happen until those surrounding buildings are actually built). The problem with stacked parking is that those machines are slow, which could possibly make the traffic and noise around the arena unbearable. According to the Empire State Development Corporation, in order to let the arena open without stacked parking they've agreed to cut the amount of mandated parking by half, from 1,100 spots to just under 550.
And the Barclays Center is just fine with that, on the record at least. A rep for the arena tells us, "we have always supported reducing the parking spaces on block 1129 and worked with EDC to do the analysis so we are very pleased with the proposed reduction. Barclays Center sits above a massive mass transit hub and we will do all we can to encourage the use of public transportation."
That last point is pretty key, and one both Mayor Bloomberg and Brooklyn BP Marty Markowitz have both harped on. Just like MSG, the new arena really does have fantastic mass transit access—so for most people there's no reason to drive to games (or concerts) there.
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