Barclays Center
Arena · Prospect Heights ·
Major Brooklyn arena hosts sports, concerts, and entertainment events.
Major Brooklyn arena hosts sports, concerts, and entertainment events.
"A major Brooklyn arena that feeds massive crowds on event nights, routinely producing roughly 1,500 servings of popcorn, 1,200 hotdogs, 1,100 chicken tenders and countless burgers, tacos and sandwiches during a single game. Operations are highly choreographed: leadership begins preparations early in the morning, shifts are planned differently for concerts versus sports because of bar versus food sales, and kitchen output to suites is timed so food is hot when guests arrive. Suites are run like dozens of separate parties (sometimes serving the equivalent of 86 distinct groups), private clubs and concessions stage food to be set up 20–30 minutes before doors, and the whole venue can serve about 18,000 guests in roughly two and a half to three hours. Concessions are the most variable department, with a peak halftime crush that requires rapid turnaround in about 15 minutes to keep fans back in their seats." - Avery Dalal
"I expect venues around Barclays Center that rely heavily on fans to continue suffering, because the absence of sporting events has removed an essential stream of customers." - Ryan Sutton
"Fuku is already open in the Brooklyn Nets’ Barclays Center." - Gabe Hiatt
"This arena is a multi-purpose indoor venue in Brooklyn; I note it sits partly on a platform over the MTA-owned Vanderbilt Yards rail yard at Atlantic Avenue and is part of the proposed $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards sports, business, and residential complex." - Stefanie Tuder
"Major-event venue that hosts an outpost of the nightclub brand, keeping a version of the original concept alive within its entertainment complex." - Jason Diamond
