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Doors open an hour before showtime at most shows.
Show night at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York. Not sure which time on the ticket matters? The concert night plan covers doors, opener and headliner at any venue.
Get an alert on show night when it’s time to leave for Barclays Center.
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The time on the ticket is when the first act is due on, and at most shows here the doors opened an hour earlier. With a general-admission ticket that gap is not spare: the spot on the floor you get is decided by where you are in the line when the doors open, and everyone with the same idea is on the same walk in. So the plan puts you in that line before doors, and the stretch from doors to showtime is a row of its own.
With a reserved seat the deadline really is the show. Aim to be in your seat ten minutes before the first act, and budget the walk to your row: it is the part people misjudge, not the drive.
Here is the evening drawn to scale. A maps app can number the ride in. The rest is the queue at the door, the screening, and the walk to your row.
Front door to your seat: 1hr 30min
The usual show times here
There is no fixed schedule at a concert venue; the promoter sets each show's time, and these are the ones this one runs most often. Pick the one on your ticket and every step before it moves. Anything else, tap the showtime and type it in.
Doors are an hour before showtime at most shows. The event pages state it as a gap rather than a clock time, and the usual gap is an hour. The one on the calendar now that opens ninety minutes out is a device-free show, where every phone goes into a pouch on the way in.
Nets and Liberty games open ninety minutes out as a rule, but that is not what a concert ticket buys. The event page on the official Barclays Center site lists doors and showtime; the ticket often lists only one. If your gap is different, edit the settle-in row.
Nine subway lines stop directly underneath at Atlantic Av–Barclays Ctr, the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q and R, and the signs inside the station point at the arena. The G is two blocks north at Fulton Street and the C stops at Lafayette Avenue; neither is an accessible station.
The Long Island Rail Road comes into Atlantic Terminal across the street, running every eight minutes at peak and every twenty off-peak, which makes this an easy arena to reach from Long Island. Eleven bus routes stop nearby, among them the B25, B41, B45, B52, B63 and B103.
Parking at the arena is very limited and the venue points people at the garages around it rather than at a garage of its own. The building sits on top of the busiest transit interchange in Brooklyn, which is the honest reason to come by train. Drop-off and pick-up have marked zones, on Atlantic Avenue outside the VIP and Atlantic entrances and on Flatbush Avenue outside the main entrance, which is curb space the rest of the intersection is also using.
There are several doors and they are not interchangeable. The main entrance is the one under the canopy where Atlantic and Flatbush meet; the Atlantic and Dean entrances are round the sides, and there are separate premium and card-member doors. If you are holding a general admission floor ticket the choice is made for you: that ticket enters at the Atlantic entrance, and the wristband that gets you onto the floor goes on once you are inside. The venue asks people not to start queueing before 9am.
Doors are an hour before the show at most events. Everyone is screened on the way in, and the venue’s advice is the blunt kind: travel light, because there are express lanes for people carrying nothing.
Bags are capped at 10 by 6 by 2 inches and there is no bag check anywhere in the building, so a bag over that size has to go back to the car or back on the train. No outside food or drink beyond medical exceptions, which Guest Services wants to hear about before the day. No re-entry either: once you leave, the ticket is spent.
Doors, lots and bag rules change; the official site is the live source.
For a general-admission ticket, be in the line before doors, which are an hour before showtime at most shows here. Be there half an hour before they open, and the ticket chip rebuilds the plan around that. For a reserved seat, aim to be at the gate half an hour before the show, which is what the plan above shows. The part to budget for is the queue at the door. Carrying a bag adds about ten minutes to that.
About 6:45 PM from Brooklyn with a reserved seat, coming in on public transport, travelling light. Earlier for a general-admission floor ticket or a bag to screen. Every row above is editable; the first travel row is your leave-by time.
None of its own worth planning around. The venue calls parking here very limited and sends people to the commercial garages nearby, which are best booked ahead. It sits on top of a transit hub, and arriving that way is the easier answer. Drop-off and pick-up zones are marked on Atlantic Avenue outside the VIP and Atlantic entrances, and on Flatbush Avenue outside the main entrance. The official Barclays Center site is where the current arrangements are posted.
Yes, and this is the reason to leave the car at home. The 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q and R all stop at Atlantic Av–Barclays Ctr directly below the building, with signs in the station pointing at the arena. The G is two blocks north at Fulton Street and the C stops at Lafayette Avenue; neither is accessible.
The Long Island Rail Road terminates at Atlantic Terminal across the street, every eight minutes at peak and every twenty off-peak. Eleven bus routes stop nearby, including the B25, B41, B45, B52, B63 and B103.
Nothing larger than 10 by 6 by 2 inches, and it does not need to be clear. There is no bag check, so anything bigger has to go back to the car. Guests with no bag at all get an express lane. No outside food or drink apart from medical exceptions arranged with Guest Services in advance, and no re-entry once you are inside.
Going to a game instead? The stadium pages. Flying in? The airport pages.
Start the plan in the app, and the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left, with a bar that fills as each step passes.
Glance at it on the walk in without opening the app.
Every step also gets its own alert, and sharing the plan gives whoever is driving the same leave time, with alerts on their phone.
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