Sunday, October 7, 2012

Jay-z takes subway to concert

  • Jay-Z Takes Subway to Final Concert at Barclays Center

    Jay-Z surprised New York City subway riders when he decided to take the train to his final Barclays Center show tonight.

    www.complex.com

  • (Sunday Snaps) Jay-Z Catches the Subway to Brooklyn

    *Over the weekend, Jay-Z pulled a Rihanna, taking the subway to end his final concert at the Barclays center.

    www.eurweb.com

  • Jay-Z Concert Opens Barclays Center

    Protestors from 10 to 12 organizations condemned much about the Barclays Center, but resisted taking a strong stand against the new subway station. Kanene Holder, a protester with the Occupy Wall Street movement, said she was still unsure of the impact ...

    fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com

  • Counting the Jay-Z Subway Crowd

    (John Keefe - New York, NY, WNYC) Saturday morning we did something fun: We counted the number of people who took the subway to the opening-night Jay-Z concert at Brooklyn's new Barclays Center the night before. Or at least got pretty close.

    transportationnation.org

  • Jay-Z Debuts Barclays Center With Concert

    NY1 found concert-goers from Manhattan, Connecticut and Long Island. "We stayed in a hotel here in Downtown Brooklyn and we took the subway here," said one concert-goer. "We wanted to experience the new subway connection." "The subway commute ...

    www.ny1.com

  • Videos: Jay-Z Brings Out Beyonce For Final Barclays Center Show

    After taking the R train and posing for pics with fellow straphangers, Jay-Z performed the final show of his eight night residency at Barclays Center in Brooklyn last night.

    gothamist.com

  • Welcome To Jay-Z's Brooklyn

    I went to the first concert at the Barclays Center on Friday night Jay-Z himself, on an eight-night stand. I took the subway over after work, and walked around the mini-mall across the street, past the Nets and the Rocawear stores that open onto Flatbush.

    www.gpb.org

  • Jay-Z's emotional Barclays Center opening night

    Speculation about Jay-Z's opening night at Barclays Center began as soon as the show was announced. How star-studded an affair would it be to celebrate the opening of a $1 billion arena only a few subway stops away from the Marcy projects where he ...

    www.newsday.com

  • Changing Skyline: Brooklyn's Barclays Center a glam, gritty architectural success

    So many black Lincoln Town Cars were double-parked in front of its fashionably rusted steel facade for the inaugural event last month - a concert by Jay-Z, natch - that the scene could have easily been mistaken for a Manhattan bash. ... about the arena ...

    www.philly.com

  • 10 things you need to know today: October 7, 2012

    Jay-Z surprised fans by taking the New York City subway to his last concert in a series of eight at the newly opened Barclays Center in the rapper's native Brooklyn, and later by performing twice with his wife Beyonce.

    theweek.com

  • Barclays Center Opening Night: Jay-Z Fans and Protestors Converge

    After nine years of contention and protest, planning and anticipation, Barclays Center opened Friday night with rapper and Brooklyn Nets minority owner Jay-Z's sold-out show. Thousands converged from the subway, the sidewalks and the streets to line up ...

    prospectheights.patch.com

  • Jay-Z - Barclays Center - 9/29/2012 (Day 2)

    Such is the paradox of a great Jay-Z concert: Even amid back-to-back crowd pleasers like "Public Service Announcement," "Hard Knock Life," and "Big Pimpin'," fans always ponder who else from the rapper's famous Rolodex might show up.

    blogs.villagevoice.com

  • CHART: How Barclay's Center Opening Caused Subway Surge

    CHART: How Barclay's Center Opening Caused Subway Surge. By Alex Goldmark ... Friday night was the first of eight sold out concerts by Jay-Z. As Janet Babin and Stephen Nessen of WNYC report, "an epic exodus, it wasn't." Transit use certainly played a ...

    transportationnation.org

  • Bollard Installation at Atlantic Terminal Races to Completion

    The project to install smaller, more aesthetically pleasing metal bollards in front of Atlantic Terminal will be completed by the time Jay-Z takes the stage for his first concert at Barclays Center, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority. But ...

    fortgreene.patch.com

  • 19000 Seats + Almost No Parking = More Foot Than Car Traffic at Barclays Arena

    (New York, NY - WNYC) Jay-Z has been playing sold-out concerts at the 19,000-seat Barclays Center Arena in Brooklyn and, so far, the biggest traffic problem has been caused by crowds of people coming up from the Atlantic Avenue subway stop and ...

    transportationnation.org

  • Nets return major pro team sports to Brooklyn

    But it's here, at Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, with a major subway hub to drop off thousands of fans at Barclays Center.

    www.usatoday.com

  • Brooklyn basketball nets WIFI

    28 with a sold-out Jay-Z concert, New Yorkers got their first up-close look at the brash, otherworldly home of the Brooklyn Nets.

    www2.macleans.ca

  • Top a.m. stories, 10/05

    SUBWAY ADS-JIHAD Report: Pro-Muslim ads going up in New York City subways by anti-jihad posters calling Israel enemies "savages.

    www.gosanangelo.com

  • Two Teens Shot on Septa Subway; All Made in America City Costs Paid by Live ...

    One suspect has been taken into custody and another is being sought. Mayor Nutter announced today that all costs for the Labor Day weekend "Made in America" Festival featuring Jay-z and Pearl Jam have been paid for by the concert promoters Live Nation.

    iradiophilly.com

  • Why Reviewing Brooklyn's New Arena Before It Opened Was Premature

    Critics both amateur and professional began offering raves and pans even before the building opened, with the first of a string of eight sold-out concerts by Jay-Z, a fractional owner of the arena and of the primary tenant, the Brooklyn (formerly New ...

    www.theatlanticcities.com

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