“Hello, Brooklyn”

I live in Brooklyn, in a tree-lined residential neighborhood of Clinton Hill. And not too far from me, if I squint my eyes, I can see the glistening reflection of the glass construction around the new Barclays Center on Flatbush and Atlantic. There was a lot of controversy and complaints around the building of this massive arena in the already traffic-overrun neighborhood. Yet even the residents who resist the new construction perhaps secretly wonder and maybe even hope of a new “Duke of Flatbush” to represent the borough.