Last week's deceptively simple question “What does the brand-new Barclays Center look like?†unleashed a tsunami of tragicomic visions from the depths of the City Room readership's collective unconscious.
Comparisons to foodstuffs, mollusks and toilets abounded, along with creatures with protruding tongues and, of course, rusty something-or-others. Here, to celebrate the arena's opening on Friday, are some of our favorites from the more than 200 submissions.
A lopsided bedpan. - Annette, NYC
A beached humpback whale. - Clayton G, Park Slope
Comb over. - Chris, NYC
A huge mountain of rusting automobile crankcases. - Gerry, New York City
Mega burger, medium well, pickle on the side. - Robert Wilkanowski, NYC
Wooden waffle iron. - Joan, California
A dirty scab over a nasty wound. - NK, Brooklyn
The handle of a saw. - Holly, Georgia
Looks like a lonely bun yearning for its burger. - Susan Isaacs, Sands Point, NY
The Tonsure of Saint Peter? - Luke, Brooklyn
An easy road win for the Milwaukee Bucks. - Mark L., Milwaukee, WI
An underslung platypus? - AoTyana, Tennessee
Chris Christie's old lumpy mattress. - troublemaker, New York, NY
A deflated basketball…perhaps too appropriate. - A.A. Scharf, Pelham, NY
Corrupt corporate design trying desperately to look hip. - Raul Rothblatt, Brooklyn
Squished automobile tire. - jason
Looks like a huge George Foreman Grill! - murali, New York
A cow-pie. - Ken Levy, Saratoga Springs, NY
A spoiled child sticking out its tongue at the neighborhood. - Lynn, New York
A hell of a lot better than a ditch full of LIRR trains. - Robert C Guenveur, Brooklyn
A soggy Oreo. - katie212, New York
An old Motorola Startac cell phone. Rusted shut. - FJH, NYC
An old-fashioned typewriter car ry case that was run over by a bus. - asher, Brooklyn
A rotting turtle. - Annie, Brooklyn
Melted Roomba. - pauldonyc, Manhattan
One of those pretentious, amoeba-like glass tables. - Skippy, NYC
A portrait of V. I. Lenin as done by Salvador Dali. - Steve Schoenwiesner, Montclair, NJ
Really? I think it looks like a portrait of Salvador Dali done by a very drunk Lenin. - Dan Stackhouse, New York City
It looks like two slabs of liver trying to say, “Developers are people too, my friend.†- Nostranditmas, Brooklyn
A hand held stapler. - RB, Queens
A wicker laundry basket with a hole in it. - Max Cornise, New York
Boba Fett. - Billy Tafadali, Tanzania
A rusty alligator skull with a pronounced underbite. - John G., Brooklyn
A pangolin. - S, New York, NY
In fifty years, if it is still standing, it will be called “Iconicâ€. - richard kopperdahl, New York City
An airport 100 years afte r the apes have taken control of the earth. - Dan A., Jersey City
Burping clam. - jd, Brooklyn
A Whoopie Pie. - Ellen, New York, NY
A potty training seat. - mikem, Nashua, N.H.
A swimming pool being sucked up by a tornado. - Jan P, Rochester, NY
Castanets. - BC, Ulster County, NY
A cake that was dropped on the floor. - VW, Portland
A misuse of the power of eminent domain. - George Jones, Waldoboro, Maine
Smushed cockroach … guts glittering, abdomen stuck up in the air. - Jeremy Davis, Brooklyn
It looks like a toad sticking out its tongue. - Maritza, Richmond, VA
Urban blight! - Carolyn, Park Slope
The burned bagel that will choke Brooklyn. - Barry H. Mann, NYC
Richard Serra meets McDonald's. - whatawasteofspace, Brooklyn
A bust of Geordi La Forge, the engineer from Star Trek played by LeVar Burton. - JustZ, New York, NY
A grilled cheese sandwich. - Technic Ally, Toronto
An angry clam. An angry, angry clam. - Jeff Bowersox, Hattiesburg, MS
It really looks like one of those Pillsbury flaky biscuits. - Katie Taylor, NYC
It looks like the center of a Barclay. - BC, Hoboken, NJ
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