"The gonzo story of Brooklyn's Barclays Arena and an NBA team coming to Brooklyn by the journalist who played a pivotal role in making it happen. <p><br>The Street Singer follows flat-broke subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles <br>into contact with high-powered developer Thaddeus Hoover - a thinly-veiled take on <br>developer Bruce Ratner. Spirit ends up playing project supporters and opponents <br>against each other in order to get a song he's written to rapper BScott - <br>a take on Brooklyn Nets minority owner Jay-Z. <p><br>This is a novel about sex, money and power in a changing Brooklyn, a musical and often humorous take on present day NYC, complete with Russian oligarchs, blogger journalists, gentrification, poverty, celebrity adulation and basketball. <p><br>An America discovering a new paradigm of global captitalism, with a reinvented Brooklyn at its core." <br>