Gothamist: Shea is Finally Worthy of NYC's Olympics Bid

oscar madison

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:54:47 -0500

It's a good thing they added an essay section onto the new SAT!! I'm on my way to Penn to get a monthly ticket - I just hope they don't re-instate the commuter tax any time soon!!

T.A.

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:40:01 -0500

Oscar, you would flunk the test. There is no "h" in Williamsburg. Unless you are talking about the Williamsburgh Bank Tower, of course, but I don't see too many people from Ohio moving there.

oscar madison

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:25:16 -0500

'jehhhhnnnny whyyyy don't yooooou luhvvvv me?' NYC civics lesson 101 - ground zero is under control of the Port Authority; a multi-state entity controlled by the states of NY and NJ. Almost immediately following the destruction at GZ, the mayor floated a very interesting proposal - a land swap, the airports for GZ. If he had succeeded then he would have had some control in the decision making process and timeline for GZ. Instead the useless Gov. of NY, along with the criminal Sheldon Silver have shamelessly allowed that project to stall. I think that once the city secedes from the state we should implement some immigration and citizenship requirements, along the lines of the 'green card' policy. All wannabees from Ohio, Texas, etc. that migrate to Williamsburgh, Astoria, and the LES should be requred to take a proficiency test. It should explain the city charter, council, etc. Current residents should have to pass as well or risk deportation to Long Island or upsate.

jenny

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:24:10 -0500

I can only imagine what could happen to Lower Manhattan if Bloomberg had as much enthusiasm for rebuiling Ground Zero as he does for getting the Olympics. Glad he never forgot about 9/11.

oscar madison

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:49:18 -0500

"yes, let us all subsidize the hobbies of the few!" hobbies? how about commerce? jobs? tax revenue? construction workers construction products stadium employees - on and off season maintenance/food service/merchandising transit workers cab drivers tv & radio engineers and technicians advertising agencies concert promoters ticket scalpers local services and shops professional sports stopped being a hobby a long time ago and became an entertainment business. people are willing to pay - so let them! personally i wouldn't drop $300 to see madonna or celine, but more power to those who would, and grudgingly to them if they can get it.

Kojak

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:39:42 -0500

Oops. Millions

Kojak

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:37:52 -0500

Complaints Complaints... We can revitalize the sludge dump near Shea with Mutant fish and Water Coloring so it’ll look cleaner then it really is. Aint that enough? I think with this 2nd plan the city is saving a lot more money, at the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.

dhex

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:33:40 -0500

"taxpayers will still pay for infrastructure - because we should regardless of location." yes, let us all subsidize the hobbies of the few! ewww!

oscar madison

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:26:21 -0500

built on a landfill - next to a bay that is a sludge dump - on the approach for LGA. wind/noise/stink - we take the worst prize now and forever!

Tropicana Field

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:11:54 -0500

Worst stadium in baseball? HI THERE!

Kojak

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:08:03 -0500

Come on tien. It’s not that bad. It’s a horribly tacky Stadium yes, and perhaps their nosebleed seats are the only seats in baseball where you really can get a nosebleed. But its unique and I love it all the same. They deserve a new stadium just as much as the Yankees do. Such luck, but of course this is the plan NYC should’ve given to the IOC from Day One. Flushing Meadows Corona and the area around Shea indeed needs redevelopment very badly. Fuck Manhattan! Now we have a REAL Bid

tien

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:30:54 -0500

whoo!! a stadium to replace shea! thankfully, the mets will no longer have the worst stadium in baseball.

def art

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:30:44 -0500

"the manhattan"?

oscar madison

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:30:06 -0500

first off congratulations to the mets fans; you certainly deserve a better stadium than Shea has become. what a sewer pit! taxpayers will still pay for infrastructure - because we should regardless of location. the mets will pay to build their home, as they would have anyway, as the yankees will soon, as the jets would have on the west side. this probably doesn't help or hurt our chances for the olympics much either way - but don't get out the welcome mats anytime soon for queens. we don't reclaim a NY NFL team. NJ enjoys all that tax revenue. we don't get super bowls and NCAA finals games. doesn't affect us much since we've never gotten them before - why would we ever want that kind of exposure or income in the future. we don't get large venue concerts/events. enjoy the rotten sound at MSG, the nasty trip to the swamp in NJ, and keep jimmy dolan rolling in marching powder. we don't get the west side developed any time soon, or sold at any real value. if there will ever be housing built look for some more trump brass palaces to line the river. now get out there and put the pressure on silver to follow through on ground zero, to get bruno thrown out of office, elect a real governor, have NYC secede from the state, and retrurn NYC to its rightful place as the capital of the world - culturally, socially, and financially.

Tim N.

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:17:34 -0500

Amazing picture, Jen. Somehow you got Mayor Bling to look just like Rev. Jim from Taxi. "Shelly, if you don't want to give me that stadium, well... okey dokey!"