A state judge has shot down Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to rent sports fields on Randalls Island to private schools because the administration failed to follow the legally required land-use review process when it made the deal. The plan was for private schools to pay $2.6 million a year for the next two decades in exchange for use of the renovated fields during peak hours from 3pm to 6pm. The Parks Department had agreed to contribute......

The city's Franchise and Concession Review Committee is scheduled to vote this coming week on whether or not to approve a proposal to have twenty Manhattan private schools pay for part of the renovation of Randall's Island athletic fields in return for exclusive use of a majority of the fields. The plan, which is separate from the controversial water park, calls for schools such as Dalton and Spence to pay the city $52 million dollars......

Water rats, your time will come in 2008: It looks like the Randalls Park Water Park will will be approved by the city's Franchise and Concession Review Committee. City Comptroller William Thompson and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer had opposed the the park's expensive tickets and questioned whether or not it will really serve the community closest to the water park, Stringer has come around, as the Aquatic Development Group Inc. has agreed to......

Gothamist thinks everyone could have predicted this a couple years ago: The city's much ballyhooed deal with Snapple to be the official drink of the city has come up way short of original goals. The city had reduced the value of the $126 million deal to only $33 million. The Mayor's office is claiming that perhaps they were too ambitious with their goals, but Gothamist would imagine that if anyone at Bloomberg LLP said they......

No longer will children have to go to Hurricane Harbor or Dorney Park because the Daily News reports that the city has a proposal in hand for a $168 million, 26 acre water park on Randall's Island in the East River. The park, originally proposed in as a smaller 12 acre park in 1999, would be paid for by Aquatic Development Group, who would have a 35-year lease with the city. The park plans call......

Oh, boo hoo. The Bloomberg administration is asking the courts to let the administration be in charge of marketing deals, instead of putting any possible sponsorships through the Franchise and Concession Review Committee. City Comptroller William Thomspon had been critical of the city's deal with Snapple and a later court ruling said that any sponsorships would need to be reviewed, though the Snapple deal could stand. Newsday reports that a lawyer for the Bloomberg administration......