"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.<br/><br/>The Street Singer follows flat-broke subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles<br/><br/>into contact with high-powered developer Thaddeus Hoover - a thinly-veiled take on<br/><br/>developer Bruce Ratner. Spirit ends up playing project supporters and opponents<br/><br/>against each other in order to get a song he's written to rapper BScott -<br/><br/>a take on Brooklyn Nets minority owner Jay-Z.<br/><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.<br/><br/>An America discovering a new paradigm of global captitalism, with a reinvented Brooklyn at its core."