NET LOSS.(The Talk of the Town)(New York, New York)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 02-FEB-04

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First things first: the proposed site of the new Brooklyn Nets arena is not, as some have suggested, the same as the one selected almost fifty years ago by the reviled Walter O'Malley, to keep the Dodgers around. That site, which was to have been occupied by a geodesic dome designed by the Princeton student Billy Kleinsasser (the old model sat for years in his parents' basement, in Tennessee), is across the street from where the new Nets owner, Bruce Ratner, wants to move his new team. It is now home to Atlantic Terminal, a high-rise work-in-progress that is also...

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