All posted items from the photo series, Signs Of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Signs Of Leonard Cohen.

Also see Community Group Sends Open Letter To Leonard Cohen & Barbra Streisand Claiming Abuse Of Power In Building Barclays Center

All posted items from the photo series, Signs Of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Signs Of Leonard Cohen.

Adapted from image tweeted by nkxxx

All posted items from the photo series, Signs Of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Signs Of Leonard Cohen.

A LeonardCohenForum post by Jarkko confirms that the 2012 Leonard Cohen Old Ideas World Tour will include a 4th date in Dublin. Check Old Ideas World Tour 2012 / Europe for details as they become available.

Or, as the Brownstoner puts it - How Will the Arena Look When Leonard Cohen Performs? That's the name of an article about the as yet uncompleted Barclays Center by Evan Bleier published 05/19/2012, which explains:

Leonard Cohen is scheduled to play the Barclays Center on December 20th. The facade of the arena is being put into place at a fast clip.

The photos atop this post showing the current construction status of the building are from the same article.

Writing in "Everybody Knows": Leonard Cohen, the Barclays Center and remembering how "the fight was fixed", an associated piece from The Atlantic Yards Report, Norman Oder posits

the Cohen lyric most appropriate for Brooklyn's glistening but tainted new arena is this, from the song "Everybody Knows": "Everybody knows the fight was fixed: the poor stay poor and the rich get rich."

Oder goes on to note that Michael D.D. White,  a lawyer and urban planner, "testified with gravity and anger, warning that the arena had been calculated, by the New York City Independent Budget Office, to be a net loss for the city."

White is quoted as declaring

Those who have never worked in a public agency and experienced the integrity with which they can operate probably wonder whether this is 'business as usual.' It is not," he said. "This is cynical corruption, the worst I have ever seen.

There are words of a Leonard Cohen song we think apply here:

    Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
    Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
    Everybody knows that the war is over *
    Everybody knows the good guys lost
    Everybody knows the fight was fixed
    The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
    That's how it goes
    Everybody knows
    Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
    Everybody knows that the captain lied
    Everybody got this broken feeling
    Like their father or their dog just died?

One hopes that the construction of Barclays Center reaches Closing Time before Leonard Cohen does.

All posted items from the photo series, Signs Of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Signs Of Leonard Cohen.

Ads generated as a consequence of the addition of second Leonard Cohen Hop Farm show.  Oriignal concert date: Sept 8, 2012; added date: Sept 9, 2012.

From A Day At The Hop Farm Facebook,(2), Web World Property, and LeonardCohen.co.uk, respectively.

All posted items from the photo series, Signs Of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Signs Of Leonard Cohen.

All posted items from the photo series, Signs Of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Signs Of Leonard Cohen.

All posted items from the photo series, Signs Of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Signs Of Leonard Cohen.