All true. Brooklyn is bizarro world and sports definitely isn't at the top of that food chain.
NBA Screwed up Moving to Brooklyn
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All true. Brooklyn is bizarro world and sports definitely isn't at the top of that food chain.
And for Long Island people who drive, where are they parking?
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
I’m here for the scraps
You're getting widely clowned in this thread, not crowned. You should actually check to see if you know what you're talking about before you hit reply.
R.E.N. Spells Ren
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Lol @ "This will always be the Knicks' city"
No shyt. But there's no reason BKN can't be the Clippers. Yanno, the team that recently sold for a couple billion. It may have been bad for Brooklyn but it certainly wasn't bad for the league. They just need to produce a better product.
No shyt. But there's no reason BKN can't be the Clippers. Yanno, the team that recently sold for a couple billion. It may have been bad for Brooklyn but it certainly wasn't bad for the league. They just need to produce a better product.
CashmereThoughts
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at the LIRR parking lot
.you speaking as though since "they drive" they cant use public trans when its logical to do so. half of them work in the city and use LIRR mon - friday anyway. who is driving to knicks and rangers games like that? nobody. this is NYC and you know parking is not an issue exclusive to the Nets. and theres no loation better served by public trans in the entire world that the intersection of atlantic and flatbush. its breeze getting from almost anywhere in LI to the barclays.
AND! i found parking on portland ave the last 2 games i went to this season.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
I’m here for the scraps
They don't hit you with the $45 charge that the mall parking does for hockey and basketball games?at the LIRR parking lot
you speaking as though since "they drive" they cant use public trans when its logical to do so. half of them work in the city and use LIRR mon - friday anyway. who is driving to knicks and rangers games like that? nobody. this is NYC and you know parking is not an issue exclusive to the Nets. and theres no loation better served by public trans in the entire world that the intersection of atlantic and flatbush. its breeze getting from almost anywhere in LI to the barclays.
AND! i found parking on portland ave the last 2 games i went to this season.
Not in a parking lot..if you go early enough you can find parking on the street..5th ave side on the side streets where i usually find.
It really is easier to just take the train..shyt ive gone there by train, car, even a dollar van
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
I’m here for the scraps
shyt, if it's cheap then I gotta let my cousins and uncles know. It's about $20 taking the train back and forth from their place to the arena for hockey games. I don't think they've gone this season.Not in a parking lot..if you go early enough you can find parking on the street..5th ave side on the side streets where i usually find.
It really is easier to just take the train..shyt ive gone there by train, car, even a dollar van
CashmereThoughts
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the parking lot in their town in LI. then take the railroad
As someone who grew up in New Jersey, I still don't understand why owners thought it was a good idea to move two more teams (Devils/nets) to the area. Yeah theres a ton of people living in NJ, but everyone is close enough to either NYC or philly that it is not necessary to change fandom. I think you're better off finding a smaller market that you can really become part of the culture ala Oklahoma City.
at the LIRR parking lot
you speaking as though since "they drive" they cant use public trans when its logical to do so. half of them work in the city and use LIRR mon - friday anyway. who is driving to knicks and rangers games like that? nobody. this is NYC and you know parking is not an issue exclusive to the Nets. and theres no loation better served by public trans in the entire world that the intersection of atlantic and flatbush. its breeze getting from almost anywhere in LI to the barclays.
AND! i found parking on portland ave the last 2 games i went to this season.
There are parking garages all over Manhattan tho.
And if you want people to come out to events, you have to give people as few excuses as possible
So how have your experiences been taking LIRR home after Barclays Center events?
CashmereThoughts
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there are multiple parking garages near barclays including the one 200 feet away on pacific. the issue is the price. same reason people choose to leave their cars at home when they go to msg. i took the LIRR from rochdale in jamaica where my grandmother lives to barclays for the tidal show. smooth as ever. way better then the subway. i still dont understand the problem.There are parking garages all over Manhattan tho.
And if you want people to come out to events, you have to give people as few excuses as possible
So how have your experiences been taking LIRR home after Barclays Center events?
R.E.N. Spells Ren
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I can't believe parking is being used as an excuse as to why people don't do something in NYC 
Not in a parking lot..if you go early enough you can find parking on the street..5th ave side on the side streets where i usually find.
It really is easier to just take the train..shyt ive gone there by train, car, even a dollar van
A lot of non-brookylnites exposing themselves in this thread.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
I’m here for the scraps
I've learned to avoid driving like the plague here and that goes double for driving to games in the city. The only arena I would drive to for games is the coliseum. Driven to Yankee stadium, driven to the meadowlands, and I get stuck in traffic at the Atlantic mall way too much. Personally I take the train if I'm going to a game there since I'm walking distance from the Utica stop for the 3 and 4. My family lives all near Suffolk county though so for them to take the train to an islanders game would be real costly. I think $9.50 each way per person.
