Stadium Discussion
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For those interested (and I'm pretty interested because I work right on top of it), here's various info about the Greenpoint Oil Spill. It's upstream of the proposed stadium site, but learning about this gives you an idea of what the cleanup entails.
Wikipedia: "The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States. Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between 17 and 30 million US gallons (64,000 and 114,000 m3) of oil and petroleum products have leaked into the soil from crude oil processing facilities over a period of several decades."
From Newtown Creek Alliance: "Since 1978, approximately 12.9 million gallons of oil and oil products have been recovered from the soils beneath Greenpoint and the waters of Newtown Creek (as of March 2017)".
So obviously this whole thing is the al-Mubarak family attempting to grab our spilled oil!
Further reading: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-greenpoint-oil-spill
Wikipedia: "The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States. Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between 17 and 30 million US gallons (64,000 and 114,000 m3) of oil and petroleum products have leaked into the soil from crude oil processing facilities over a period of several decades."
From Newtown Creek Alliance: "Since 1978, approximately 12.9 million gallons of oil and oil products have been recovered from the soils beneath Greenpoint and the waters of Newtown Creek (as of March 2017)".
So obviously this whole thing is the al-Mubarak family attempting to grab our spilled oil!
Further reading: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-greenpoint-oil-spill
Wonder if CFG is helping to expedite the cleanup of Newtown Creek to ingratiate itself with the neighborhood and the city government in return for a stadium + some real estate. Lord knows future clean riverfront property would be really valuable to the city and developers.
It was shared to me as very secretive that’s why I got dumbfounded when I saw the rendering posted here.
So wait, this rendering has been circulating for 2 months? What else do you guys have?
Did your source indicate whether this was a serious possibility, or just some wild dream being thrown against the wall?
I don't see any steel supports. I think those towers create a hover field and it just floats.
CP_Scouse
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so the star wars nights were just a foresight??
I'm no civil engineer, but I'd presume that such things as arches, cantilevers and cable stays can support that kind of load over a span as relatively narrow as Newtown Creek.
The Pulaski also has pillars in th waterway. You just need a large enough opening for whatever water craft goes by. I'd imagine it would probably be doable.
dannd23
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We will have the first ever draw-field instead of a drawbridge.
It would be great to have the ball on their side when the field draws up and separates! Can't get scored on for a few minutes.
NickFromAstoria
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We've got four big highrises sitting on platforms over the highway next the George Washington Bridge, after all.
Move over, Stamford Bridge.
Forget about building a stadium in one borough, we're building a stadium in two boroughs. That's 40% of NYC right there. 50% is we forget about Staten Island.
