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Except, that is, for the Jets!
The Yankees reveal plans for the new Yankee Stadium today, and we can't help but wonder if George Steinbrenner is annoyed that the Mets are getting a lot of attention for being part of the city's last-ditch ammended 2012 Olympics bid. The Yankees will be recreating the old stadium in the new redesign, including features that were destroyed when the current stadium was renovated in 1976. Georgie Boy will pay for the $800 million stadium himself, but the city and state will pay for infrastructure around the area, including parking garages, a waterfront park, and a new sports fields. The new stadium will have fewer seats, following a recent trend in new sports stadiums, in order to create more high-profit luxury boxes. And luckily, the old stadium't be just a parking structure; from what we've heard, the old stadium will be used for high school games and may even have a hotel and conference center. Gothamist envisions a lot of corporate retreats in the Bronx!
And on the West Side-Shea stadium antics of the past months and weeks, the Village Voice and NY Observer have some interesting looks at the wrangling and politics. For instance, is Queens a better location than Manhattan for the Games?
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I actually thought Paris was a better location than Manhattan for the games, but that's just me.
New Jersey is also part of metro NYC. It also has a lot of great sports infrastructure with decent transportation (think Meadowlands, Stevens Institute, Fairleigh Dickinson, Rutgers.) It's a shame that Doctoroff & Co., did not include NJ in their bid. It would have been a powerful package.
BTW, once replaced, the old Yankee Stadium should just be bulldozed. It's too big for school sports and too dull to serve as anything else. Besides, the new stadium is displacing community facilities, which will need to be replaced. How about hotels and commercial over the Metro-North station?
One of the flaws in the original bid was that the Olympic stadium was too far away from the village and the other sports venues. When you look at the Olympics of the past and the plans by the candidate cities for 2012, most of the stadiums and events are mostly close to each other.
The Meadowlands is a fine sports center, but with the original and revised plan, its just too far. Not to mention it’s a pain in the ass to get to.
NJ is part of NY? Awww, you're so cute. I guess it's part of metro NY, but isn't everything from DC to Boston?
Also, have you tried to get to the Meadowlands from the city?
We need a maginot line at the NJ border!
whoa a maginot line, be careful or the anti-olympics ny'ers will think they're the french and we'll wind up surrendering to the germans, err new jersey!
For the three weeks of the games, traffic between Manhattan & the Meadowlands can be managed.
Oscar... what?????
Amazing that the Mets and the Yankees can afford to basically pay for their own stadiums, but the Jets won't come back without huge city subsidies. And you wonder why they haven't won a Superbowl in 36 years. Losers.