Community opposition, yadda yadda, government handout, blah blah, traffic, overcrowding, lack of support from the MTA, etc. The glimmer of hope here is that last point, because even though this entire fiasco can end run around local opposition, if the MTA doesn’t sell its land, or support the 7 line extension, the stadium is pretty much a non-starter. Likely, they are only playing some hardball, since the state has been slowly starving them for the past 20 years, and this is the best chance to apply some pressure to increase their funding. Al Hirschfield, who realized late that the best way to rehabilitate a felony conviction is by loudly owning a sports entity in the city, decided to add some levity to the proceedings by claiming he can develop it all by his lonesome, and, more importantly, with his own money, which is more than all the rich guys currently involved are willing to do.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg calls Cablevision ‘a disgrace’, which isn’t news to anyone, for their new ad campaign which basically shows that the new stadium proposal is full of shit. Which it is, but Cablevision decided to fudge the numbers on the environmental impact statement, projecting that — and you can’t have a local dustup with the exploitation of minorities — Harlem would be overwhelmed with sewage, since the primary treatment plant for Manhattan is located at the west end of 125th street (the pro stadium side is up in the Bronx wooing the Latino community with, um, promises of janitorial positions or something). If the West Side is fully developed, this is a fairly true statement (and one that no one is talking about), but this fine distinction is lost on the Dolans, who also didn’t think about the fact that as long as the sewage goes where white people ain’t, then an excess isn’t really going to keep anyone up at night. But this is their version of outreach, hoping they can get local Harlem leaders to make enough noise to stop the stadium while they get the city to toss those same tax-funded bucks at the MSG, and fade quietly in to the night when their predictions come true.
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Mike, you might be right, but that doesn’t mean anyone likes your plan.
Community opposition, yadda yadda, government handout, blah blah, traffic, overcrowding, lack of support from the MTA, etc. The glimmer of hope here is that last point, because even though this entire fiasco can end run around local opposition, if the MTA doesn’t sell its land, or support the 7 line extension, the stadium is pretty much a non-starter. Likely, they are only playing some hardball, since the state has been slowly starving them for the past 20 years, and this is the best chance to apply some pressure to increase their funding. Al Hirschfield, who realized late that the best way to rehabilitate a felony conviction is by loudly owning a sports entity in the city, decided to add some levity to the proceedings by claiming he can develop it all by his lonesome, and, more importantly, with his own money, which is more than all the rich guys currently involved are willing to do.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg calls Cablevision ‘a disgrace’, which isn’t news to anyone, for their new ad campaign which basically shows that the new stadium proposal is full of shit. Which it is, but Cablevision decided to fudge the numbers on the environmental impact statement, projecting that — and you can’t have a local dustup with the exploitation of minorities — Harlem would be overwhelmed with sewage, since the primary treatment plant for Manhattan is located at the west end of 125th street (the pro stadium side is up in the Bronx wooing the Latino community with, um, promises of janitorial positions or something). If the West Side is fully developed, this is a fairly true statement (and one that no one is talking about), but this fine distinction is lost on the Dolans, who also didn’t think about the fact that as long as the sewage goes where white people ain’t, then an excess isn’t really going to keep anyone up at night. But this is their version of outreach, hoping they can get local Harlem leaders to make enough noise to stop the stadium while they get the city to toss those same tax-funded bucks at the MSG, and fade quietly in to the night when their predictions come true.