Gothamist: Proposed Jets Stadium Is Not A UFO

lys

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:49:23 -0500

Lots of photos of the amazing Seattle Public Library.

sigh

Wed, 19 May 2004 17:00:22 -0500

bitch, bitch, bitch. its an artform with new yorkers, it really is.

james

Wed, 19 May 2004 16:44:32 -0500

Surprising - another development project people don't like. Rack that up with the Olympics, the Freedom Tower, the Nets arena, IKEA, Lowe's and the far West Side housing developments. In other news - Robert Moses was the devil, politicians are evil and there is a lot of traffic in New York City. Development is gonna happen folks, get on board!

SIJetFan

Wed, 19 May 2004 15:23:13 -0500

Let's see...I live on SI and am a longtime NYJ season ticket holder, so I guess I would be one of those dreaded "suburbanites" travelling to the game in my SUV. Except that I drive a Honda. Sorry that your gross generalization didn't pan out. Better face facts - the Jets may not know what they are doing with respect to the hiring of coaching staff, but finally did something right in hiring Jay Cross to head up the stadium project. This deal has been designed so that there is little chance for NYC interests to derail it - a stroke of commercial planning genius (or evil genius, depending on your view). BTW, if you don't get your precious Second Avenue subway, you can blame Shelly Silver for his refusal to allow the South Ferry project to proceed, based on a spurious claim that it would displace the "WTC globe" memorial from Battery Park. Hey, if those of us using downtown transit don't get our long-overdue capital project, you Upper Eastsiders aren't getting yours either. That's politics. Personally, I'd be happy to see some of my taxes spent on something I might actually use. SI residents pay plenty of NYC taxes but seem to get precious little in return. At least the rest of NYC isn't dumping its trash here anymore (thank Rudy).

vine

Wed, 19 May 2004 13:25:20 -0500

I'm sure all of the suburbanites on their way to the game in their H2s and Escalades will appreciate the energy saving measures of this stadium as they sit in clogged traffic, burning fumes, while looking for a parking space. And I'm sure the rest of us will appreciate those energy saving measures while we are stuck on a bus, in clogged traffic, on the east side because Doctoroff needed the money for the Second Avenue Subway to extend the already overcrowded 7 line to his stadium. Manhattan doesn't need this beast. Put it in East Rutherford or Queens, where there are highways and parking lots to handle it.

Sterling

Wed, 19 May 2004 13:14:12 -0500

Yeah, that solar power's gonna be really useful during football season. Still, the windmills aren't a bad idea - there used to be several on both sides of the Hudson, back in the (colonial) day, and they worked very well. I think the last one standing was the Ege family's - somewhere around where the Colgate Clock now sits in Jersey City.

Kojak

Wed, 19 May 2004 12:05:14 -0500

Hopefully it will fall into the Hudson river and we shall never see it again. (Or The Jets)

Judith

Wed, 19 May 2004 11:58:53 -0500

My favorite parts of the photo of the West Side Stadium, are the little bitty streets that lead to it. How quaint.

whoops

Wed, 19 May 2004 11:51:59 -0500

Sorry to be nitpicky, but it's Pedersen, not Pederson.