Towers have risen at Barclays Center’s edge during pandemic

The last time the Nets played at Barclays Center, the first week of March, two new residential towers at the edges of the arena had barely risen above ground. Now, after a construction slowdown brought on by the pandemic, the two are rising fast, one at the northeast corner of the arena bloc, the other down Sixth Avenue and across the street.

As reported by Norman Oder, critic of chronicler of progress at Pacific Park, the building at 18 Sixth Avenue at the northeast corner of the bloc, is now at 21 stories on its way to 51 while the building down the street at 37 Sixth Avenue, which will include a middle school, is now at 24 stories on its way to 26. Both should be topped off by October…