In Brooklyn, ACC debates new horizons vs. old traditions
Half a mile away from where college basketball’s premiere conference tournament is being played, there are no signs that the Atlantic Coast Conference is in town.
The Thai restaurants, bodegas and store-front day care centers on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood are going about Thursday late-morning business as usual.
Get within a couple blocks of the Barclays Center and now there is a clue something is going on: three adults wearing prominent articles of baby blue clothing.