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By Daniel Geiger 1/04 9:45am

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The Nets are moving to 15 MetroTech.

New Jersey Nets Ink Office Deal at MetroTech Center

The New Jersey Nets are taking another step closer to becoming Brooklyn’s first professional sports team since the Dodgers walked away from the borough almost 55 years ago, sources revealed to The Commercial Observer yesterday.

The team is relocating its corporate headquarters from East Rutherford to Downtown Brooklyn, where the organization is taking 35,145 square feet at the office building 15 MetroTech Center. The Nets will take the space for between five and 10 years at rents in the $30s per square foot, said sources.

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6 By Drew Grant 9/26/11 1:21pm

Brooklyn Nets

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Jay-Z Announces “Brooklyn Nets” Title, Tells Everyone To Stop Watching Knicks Games

One year from now, Jay-Z will be performing in his hometown Brooklyn. That's the good news. The rapper's love of basketball has led to his owning a small stake in the former New Jersey Nets, which from now on will be the Brooklyn Nets. (We would have really preferred it if owner/Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov had actually named the team after his girlfriends.)

The group will find its new home at the soon-to-be-built Barclays Center on Flatbush and Atlantic Ave., as part of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards Project that's been going so well. Jay himself announced the official name in a "brief and anticlimactic" ceremony in New Jersey today.

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By Tom Acitelli 1/03/08 3:37pm

Nets Plan 2010 Move to Brooklyn

The New Jersey Nets basketball team now plans to move to the Barclays Arena in central Brooklyn in 2010. The team originally planned to be in the arena, which is part of the Atlantic Yards project, in time for the 2009-10 season; but, as the Bergen Record reports this morning (via The Real Deal), Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 12/04/06 12:00am

Puff Daddy’s Black and White Ball ’98

Sean (Puffy) Combs was on the phone from a yacht in the Bahamas, and he was laughing. “When Penny Marshall comes to my joints, she gets buck wild!” Mr. Combs said with admiration in his polite voice. “Every time she comes to one of my parties, she gets … ” he paused, then continued excitedly, Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 12/04/06 12:00am

Puff Daddy’s Black and White Ball ’98

Sean (Puffy) Combs was on the phone from a yacht in the Bahamas, and he was laughing.

“When Penny Marshall comes to my joints, she gets buck wild!” Mr. Combs said with admiration in his polite voice. “Every time she comes to one of my parties, she gets … ” he paused, then continued excitedly, Read More
By Staff 9/19/06 8:45am

The Morning Read: September 19, 2006

Rudy Giuliani will be campaigning for New Hampshire Republicans on Oct. 12, his first political trip to the presidential battleground since 2004. Jeanine Pirro says she's tougher on perverts than Andrew Cuomo. State campaign contribution limits didn't stop AIG from giving $50,000 to Eliot Spitzer in one day and $90,000 to George Read More

By Matthew Schuerman 9/11/06 12:00am

In Big Slow Brooklyn Build, Is It Affordable Housing Last?

What if Bruce Ratner never finished his gargantuan arena-and-housing development in central Brooklyn? Or, quite similarly but more likely, what if he put off fulfilling his commitment to affordable housing for years and years? Construction schedules in a 1,400-page state study of the Atlantic Yards project show that Mr. Ratner is going to build the Read More

By Michael Calderone 6/19/06 12:00am

Brooklyn Magic!

Early on the evening of June 13, basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson was standing before a group of about 40 cocktail-sipping real-estate brokers and house-hunters gathered in a 10th-floor office in the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building in downtown Brooklyn. A stack of Brooklyn Dodgers hats, next to shirts bearing the legend “One Hanson Place” and Read More

By Michael Calderone 6/19/06 12:00am

Brooklyn Magic!

Early on the evening of June 13, basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson was standing before a group of about 40 cocktail-sipping real-estate brokers and house-hunters gathered in a 10th-floor office in the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building in downtown Brooklyn.

A stack of Brooklyn Dodgers hats, next to shirts bearing the legend “One Hanson Place” and Read More

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