The 850,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment arena will be home to the professional basketball team the Brooklyn Nets.  For the first time since the Dodgers left in 1957, Brooklyn will have a major league sports team to call its own. The Barclays Center will welcome some of the most exciting sports and entertainment events in the world: concerts, fine arts performances, circuses, NCAA college basketball games, hockey tournaments and music award shows are just some of the possibilities. 

The design of the arena invites the outside in: The center’s Atlantic and Flatbush Avenue façades will be expanses of glass, flooding the inside with natural light during the day and allowing patrons on the concourses inside to glimpse the vibrant life of downtown Brooklyn. A new subway entrance at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues will provide direct access to New York's third-largest public transportation hub (10 subway lines and the LIRR).

The Barclays Center will be a community centerpiece for the borough. FCRC has worked with local organizations to ensure the arena is an integral part of the community, where local college and high school athletes will have a new stage to showcase their skills. The center will also host thousands of proud families and friends for college and high school graduations. 

At least 10 events a year will be set aside for multicultural, recreational and nonprofit uses, with proceeds from those days benefiting local nonprofit community groups. FCRC will create a nonprofit sports foundation to fund youth, recreation and community programs. At least 50 upper bowl tickets, four lower bowl tickets and one box per Nets basketball game will be set aside for community use, with priority given to youths and seniors. The center will also include a nondenominational meditation room.

The Barclays Center offers Brooklyn a world-class venue in which to come together, to cheer, to celebrate, to listen, to learn, to connect and to allow Brooklyn to be Brooklyn...on the world's stage.