Brooklyn homecoming hits different for Knicks’ Jose Alvarado
Time for a pop quiz, New Yorkers: What was Barclays Center before it was Barclays Center? Jose Alvarado doesn’t need time to think about it. The Knicks guard grew up just steps from the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues — close enough to watch the area change in real time, long before an NBA arena reshaped the borough.
Long before it reshaped his neighborhood. “[Fort Greene] got ...
Time for a pop quiz, New Yorkers: What was Barclays Center before it was Barclays Center? Jose Alvarado doesn’t need time to think about it. The Knicks guard grew up just steps from the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues — close enough to watch the area change in real time, long before an NBA arena reshaped the borough.
Long before it reshaped his neighborhood. “[Fort Greene] got expensive,” Alvarado said after practice ahead of his first game at Barclays Center as a Knick. “My grandma still lives there, my dad’s mom.
She lives in the projects right there down the street from Fort Greene. She still lives there. So me and my dad we go visit.