Barclays Center

Barclays Center Wins “Building Brooklyn” Award The Barclays Center will be honored at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s annual “Building Brooklyn” awards this year for their outstanding architecture with an award for “Economic Development.” “There isn’t a Read More

Rih Rih was so close, she could trip a referee at Saturday’s Nets vs. Bulls play-off game at the Barclays Center. The singer was originally scheduled to be there that night to perform for her Diamonds World Tour stop, but it was postponed in lieu of the Nets’ winning Read More

The NBA announced today that their draft this year will be held in Brooklyn for the first time ever. Tickets for the Barclays Center event go on sale May 22nd at 10 a.m., priced at $20 and $35. You can purchase them at Ticketmaster, as well as Barclays’ site and their box Read More

Rihanna has been trekking all over the U.S. on her Diamonds tour with A$AP Rocky, and it seems that her BFF Katy Perry is feeling a little neglected. Taking to Twitter, the pop star called Rih out, and vowed to “spank” her when Rih returns to NYC on May 4th and 5th Read More

For the first time ever, the MTV Video Music Awards will be taking place in Brooklyn in 2013. This year marks the 30 year anniversary of the popular awards show, previously taking place in various parts of Manhattan and in L.A. in the more recent years. The show airs live August Read More

Shortly after Beyonce shut it down with her Super Bowl performance last night (and turned out the lights, HA!), the Queen announced she’d soon be embarking on a world tour. The Mrs. Carter Show will begin in Europe, and then come back to the States, closing out with a final Read More

If you’re searching upon a night of good ole rhythms and blues, then look no further. Alicia Keys and Miguel are set to embark on the “World On Fire” tour, and will be hitting more than 20+ cities in the process, with two of them in New York City. On April 5, the two will be Read More

People have already been up in arms over the rust issue at the newly built Barclays Center in Brooklyn, but there was another issue in the facade as well: weak bolts! The Department of Buildings reports thousands of the bolts (8% to be exact) used to hold together the 12,000 Read More

Of course Spike Lee was in the Barclays Center on Tuesday night when his beloved NY Knicks took on their new neighbors, the Brooklyn Nets. Despite the fact his team won, an obnoxious Nets fan had some fun with him when they had scored, taunting him by dangling a Nets hat in his Read More

The Brooklyn Nets were defeated by their neighbors on their own turf last night. The Knicks won with a 3 point defeat (100-97) thanks to Jason Kidd, as celebs like Spike Lee, Jay-Z, Michael Rapaport and Rosie Perez watched from the sidelines. Either way, it’s a win for New York! Read More

Now through December 23rd, Nike has erected a pop-up shop at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The shop stands in honor of the 30th anniversary of the classic Air Force One, as well as an introduction to the new Nike Lunar Force 1. Here, you can cop various Nike clothing, the Air Read More

To coincide with his 43rd birthday, Nets’ boss-man Jay-Z and Life +Times releases a 25 minute [in-depth] documentary clip entitled “Where I’m From,” which takes us through/highlights of his 8 performances at the arena. It also includes Jigga Man’s Read More