The Brooklyn Dome ... the first stadium planned for Flatbush and Atlantic

Mechanix Illustrated via GothamistGothamist, the city blog, did some neat historical research this week on the first sports stadium planned for the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, a giant Buckminster Fuller-designed dome to house the Dodgers, then stuck in deteriorating Ebbets Field further down Flatbush.

The article focuses on a Mechanix Illustrated article on the stadium, perhaps to be called the "Brooklyn Sports Center." It would have mainly been located where the Atlantic Terminal Mall now sits across Atlantic from Barclays Center, but one plan called for it to straddle Atlantic.

Gothamist's Jen Carlson writes of the planned stadium, nicknamed the Brooklyn Dome or Dodger Dome...

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