Stadium Discussion

Where Do You Want The Stadium?

  • Manhattan

    Votes: 54 16.6%
  • Queens

    Votes: 99 30.5%
  • Brooklyn

    Votes: 19 5.8%
  • Staten Island

    Votes: 7 2.2%
  • Westchester

    Votes: 18 5.5%
  • The Bronx

    Votes: 113 34.8%
  • Long Island

    Votes: 7 2.2%
  • Dual-Boroughs

    Votes: 3 0.9%
  • Etihad Island

    Votes: 5 1.5%

  • Total voters
    325
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/bill-de-blasio-in-conversation.html

In 2013, you ran on reducing income inequality. Where has it been hardest to make progress? Wages, housing, schools?
What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development.
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Very close. May be done. VERY surprised that she was this open about it.

I assume any announcement would come after elections in November. No need to introduce any lightning rod projects during the home stretch of a campaign.

The most aggressive timeline would be something like an announcement in December, government approvals in 2018, construction 2019-2020/21, opening in 2021/22? Building in some delays, setting the over/under at the 2023 season?
 
I assume any announcement would come after elections in November. No need to introduce any lightning rod projects during the home stretch of a campaign.

The most aggressive timeline would be something like an announcement in December, government approvals in 2018, construction 2019-2020/21, opening in 2021/22? Building in some delays, setting the over/under at the 2023 season?

I think season ticket holders walk through the stadium in calendar year 2022. That's my thinking.
 
I assume any announcement would come after elections in November. No need to introduce any lightning rod projects during the home stretch of a campaign.

Also since, with either Willet's or GAL, we won't know who the next Council Member for those districts will be until next January (well, really we'll know by next week after the Democratic primary but you know). So there's really no one for them to seek a blessing from yet on a local level.
 
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What page was Willets West? I'm not sure which site Melinda was referring to. Though the city did buy up most of Willets Point (which you pictured) through the NYCEDC over the last couple years. I mean either way it fits with plenty of room.
Good question. She was talking about doing it on the 35 acres of city-owned land. Would love a map of that area
 
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