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Looks like the West Side Stadium is toast.
Sheldon Silver says no.
from the Times
The financial plan for a proposed West Side stadium will be rejected by a key state panel today, appearing to end plans for the $2.2 billion project that had been the centerpiece of the city's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and the proposed home of the New York Jets.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of three voting members of the state Public Authorities Control Board, said he would veto the stadium's financing plan. Mr. Silver said he was concerned that new retail and office development planned for the area around the stadium would have hampered redevelopment at the World Trade Center site, which sits a few miles to the south and is part of Mr. Silver's district.
"Am I supposed to sell out the community I have fought for and I have represented?" Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, said at an afternoon news conference before the board's vote. "Am I supposed to turn my back on Lower Manhattan?"
Mr. Silver said that even if New York is awarded the 2012 Olympic Games, he would not support a West Side stadium project.
--emphasis mine
Wow. it looks as if the mayor's plan for the West Side Stadium is pretty much screwed. No state money. No stadium. And I love that Silver is going so far as to say that even if New York City is awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics, he'll still say no. That's about as firm a no as I can imagine.
Something tells me that Doctoroff and his Jets buddies are literally shitting bricks.
Back to the drawing board, Bloomie.
Why isn't Sheldon Silver running for mayor?
I mean, seriously.
There's a Democrat I'd vote for in a heart-beat. Ferrer has such an uphill battle with me these days ...
agreed.
no one in the current crop is wowing me. gifford miller just happened to "drop by" our neighborhood DFNYC meeting last week and that took some balls. he basically screwed us at every turn and then shows up to a roomful(OK, it was like a dozen of us) who had been working on the rezoning for months and proceeded to tell us what a great deal we got and how he was to thank for it. he's an asshole, but the boy got chutzpah, that's for sure.
ferrer is mortally wounded with his own constituency, weiner is named...uh, weiner and fields seems to poll OK against bloomberg but has no money. (gifford's got all that)
i'm not too optimistic right now.
it looks like i'm going to be focussing on the brooklyn DA's race and getting norm seigel elected public advocate this cycle. then i want to run norm for mayor next time out...
Hm
I'm beginning to think I may know you.
entirely possible
i look like this:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SNORT
Oh yeah
That's definitely you.
You're right
That's a solid no. Of course, he has cover to say that because everybody not living inside Dan Doctoroff's head knows that NY was never going to get the 2012 Olympics anyway.
somebody somewhere probably
thought we might get the olympics but i don't think doctoroff did. i really think the whole olympics thing was another cudgel to bash the stadium through with. it looks like that ain't playing so well in albany or manhattan.