{"id":296,"date":"2005-02-22T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2005-02-22T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-22T17:24:52","slug":"westside-development-made-more-interesting-with-malice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Westside development made more interesting with malice!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet who would have thought the old yards to have had so much potential in them? Turns out that the Dolans will spend $600MM to protect a $12MM a year subsidy &#8212; oh, and a monopoly on large event spaces in the city. And even better, it turns out that Adam Victor, the owner of TransGas, a company desperate to bring competition to the city&#8217;s energy market in the form of a behemoth power plant in Brooklyn that is as certain to bring asthma to the lives of small, non-traditionally complected children as his goofy vents are unlikely to bring a smile to their faces (which could be the posthumous work of PJ &#8212; and we aren&#8217;t even going to touch the irony that his last masterstroke was an edifice of smokestacks cheek by jowl with a large, traditionally Jewish neighborhood), is willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/22\/nyregion\/22railyard.html\">pony up $700MM<\/a>, <em>just because he&#8217;s pissed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p \/>The city&#8217;s response to this offer is as dismissive as the Dolans&#8217;, even though all the conditions Victor is requesting (an everlasting Gobstopper &#8212; er, MetroCard, the first born of Peter Kalikow and a date with the woman who is the computerized voice on the IRT) don&#8217;t require city or federal approval. Of course, like the Dolans&#8217;, or RWJ III, he&#8217;s going to suck the city dry of revenue one way or another, but still, $700MM is a <em>lot<\/em> of fuck-you money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet who would have thought the old yards to have had so much potential in them? Turns out that the Dolans will spend $600MM to protect a $12MM a year subsidy &#8212; oh, and a monopoly on large event spaces in the city. And even better, it turns out that Adam Victor, the owner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}