Stadium Discussion

i don't know brooklyn that well, but aren't brownsville and bedstuy highly residential? there really isn't anywhere to develop a stadium + additional stuff without displacing people out of their homes, which kinda defeats the purpose.
It’s a tweet from 6 years ago when he was In the middle of his first term as Brooklyn Borough President and not running for mayor.
I think you’re right about those neighborhoods but I’ve no idea if theremight be any big open or industrial lots that could be appropriate.
 
It’s a tweet from 6 years ago when he was In the middle of his first term as Brooklyn Borough President and not running for mayor.
I think you’re right about those neighborhoods but I’ve no idea if theremight be any big open or industrial lots that could be appropriate.

oh damn. i didn't even notice the date. lol.
 
I know that Staten Island isn't the ideal place for a 30k soccer stadium, of course, but however it is NYC and not NJ...
The problem with Staten Island, and I think the main reason most people barely even consider it 'NYC' sometimes (Staten Island is always the butt of the NYC jokes because most new yorkers don't want it), is that Staten Island is highly HIGHLY inaccessible. There's no subway line, and the only two ways to get there are
1) Ferry
2) Car... Which, from the Verrazzano, Goethals, and Outerbridge Crossing are considerably inconvenient for most people, and traffic to wazzoo.

Basically, Staten Island would by far be the worst location in the city for a stadium, and I don't think many people would argue on that point. (this is barring the outer reaches of Queens where the subways don't reach, of course.)
 
The problem with Staten Island, and I think the main reason most people barely even consider it 'NYC' sometimes (Staten Island is always the butt of the NYC jokes because most new yorkers don't want it), is that Staten Island is highly HIGHLY inaccessible. There's no subway line, and the only two ways to get there are
1) Ferry
2) Car... Which, from the Verrazzano, Goethals, and Outerbridge Crossing are considerably inconvenient for most people, and traffic to wazzoo.

Basically, Staten Island would by far be the worst location in the city for a stadium, and I don't think many people would argue on that point. (this is barring the outer reaches of Queens where the subways don't reach, of course.)
Technically, there is a subway line... but fully understood in that it is only used for accessing other points of SI, no connections to Manhattan/Brooklyn.
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Technically, there is a subway line... but fully understood in that it is only used for accessing other points of SI, no connections to Manhattan/Brooklyn.
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side note, but i think in like the 1920' there were plans for the R train to extend into Staten island. I think some say the tunnel was actually started but not completed as the great depression happened and then plans abandoned after that.
 
Technically, there is a subway line... but fully understood in that it is only used for accessing other points of SI, no connections to Manhattan/Brooklyn.
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Hah. Yeah, I meant into other boroughs. It's just.... highly inconvenient.
side note, but i think in like the 1920' there were plans for the R train to extend into Staten island. I think some say the tunnel was actually started but not completed as the great depression happened and then plans abandoned after that.
In writing my reply i came across a super interesting article about that actually!
 
It’s a tweet from 6 years ago when he was In the middle of his first term as Brooklyn Borough President and not running for mayor.
I think you’re right about those neighborhoods but I’ve no idea if theremight be any big open or industrial lots that could be appropriate.

I always thought Broadway Junction in East New York was a sleeper spot for a stadium. Still an extreme long shot, but a possibility nonetheless.




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Hah. Yeah, I meant into other boroughs. It's just.... highly inconvenient.

In writing my reply i came across a super interesting article about that actually!
It's pretty nuts how big the system may have gotten. Here's a guy who broke it all down as well and also made a modern map for it. https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2021/01/ind-second-system-track-map/
 
So with September quickly approaching do we know when know when the Bronx community board plans to reconvene? Also how sure are we that they’ll even pick back off where they left off in June?
 
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