Summary
NEW YORK - When you stand on the bustling corner of Flatbush Avenue where the Nets most likely will play their home games, you're surrounded by ghosts of Brooklyn.
Ebbets Field, home of the once beloved and long departed Dodgers, stood about two miles to the east. Now it's a housing project. Down the street was the Brooklyn Paramount, where a generation of rock fans went to see Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and other young, strutting men who once sneered at older generations and now are members of an older generation. When the music ended, the Paramount became part of Long Island University. In the heart of downtown Brooklyn once was Abraham & Straus, a fine department store that never was as big as Macy's, but always more comfortable. It's gone.See the full content of this document
Extract
Brooklyn Hasn't Caught Nets Fever
Now something new might be coming in.
For Mary O'Brien, what's past is mostly irrelevant because the future suddenly is uncertain. The plan to move the Nets from East Rutherford to Brooklyn involves the construction of a huge new arena fronting the raucous intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, and this would involve...See the full content of this document
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