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My guess. That Yankees either want more from the City/CFG/Developers in the deal, or they simply don't want a neighboring outdoor entertainment venue.
Sure, the neighborhood supporting this is nice. But f them.
You want to blink at a billion dollar investment in one of the most dilapidated places in NYC, go suck and egg.
You want to blink at a billion dollar investment in one of the most dilapidated places in NYC, go suck and egg.
This is just a weird article. Who is the intended audience? I can see if there was a ballot measure for the stadium or if there were two politicians with opposing positions on the stadium and this was a piece to sway the vote in one direction. This article is not going to put pressure on the Yankees. Even the “hey we can move to queens” is not going to put pressure on BX to approve a deal. It’s not an article that really is advocating any real politics.
The only other reason why this article was released now was they were hoping to release the article while the Yankees made the World Series and hoping to have a bigger audience/impact showing the Yankees as shitty neighbors.
The only other reason why this article was released now was they were hoping to release the article while the Yankees made the World Series and hoping to have a bigger audience/impact showing the Yankees as shitty neighbors.
Then you have people like this saying talks have “collapsed”. I think that’s a little over the top imho
First Historic Underground Soccer Stadium incoming in midtown or some shit just watch
Money. They have something of value that someone else wants. Come get it. Doesn't matter if the Yankees need parking spaces or not, all that matters is how much someone else wants them.
Yankees revenue is something like $700 million a year. They put into NYCFC, what, $25 million? And don't they make like $1 million back per game in rent? Plus appreciation of the MLS franchise rights, they are *well* in the black on this investment. They're in the money and power game, and they're doing everything right on those fronts here.
If CFG wants a stadium bad enough (they don't), they need to write a blank check to buy off both the Yankees and City Hall (they probably won't). Yankees involvement in any of this process is absolutely a hinderance, on balance.
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My sports team dysfunction hierarchy: Jets>Knicks>Nets>Mets>Rangers>NYCFC
not counting RBNJ and Devils and Isles for obvious reasons. Yanks and football Giants have at least won championships in the last 30 years
He says 'I know it's been written as it's dead. You know we're not gonna completely write something off, but there's nothing active right now."
Then he says they're focused on a site in Queens. What site in queens could they be talking about?
While he says they're "very enthusiastic" about this site in Queens, I'll take it with a grain of salt. A nice, big, fat, grain of salt.
Though he did say that now instead of all eggs in one basket (Bronx), they have it split into two baskets, and hopefully they have a chance of getting one of the two of them done. So the site is still active then???? Contradictory statements, seems to me. Or maybe "nothing active" doesn't mean "we are doing nothing" ??
Maybe we're back to Willets Point? I guess we need
SoupInNYC to start attending Queens Community Board 7 meetings.It's probably BS from Sims. If you have your hands in multiple baskets, do you really have anything at all? This is a giant case of the Yankees screwing us and NYCFC caught flat-footed with no back up plan.
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