Stadium Discussion

[Shwafta]

The best part about the proposed casino development, in terms of impact to Etihad Park, is they would be renovating the Willets Point 7 train station.

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It is also interesting, and I'm curious to hear Brad Sims' thoughts on this, that the proposed development includes a planned "Taste of Queens" food hall on Seaver Way just south of Citi Field. I feel like that would end up directly competing with the food hall planned at Etihad Park on non gamedays since they will be very close to each other.

IMO, the more food options the better. The more you make available, the more it will become an attractive hub for people to visit.

Also I''m all for train renovations and station improvements. (I'm a big train guy). If they can fix the hell that is Mets/Willets-point station that would be amazing. Maybe they'll even fix the congestion on exit issue too with more or wider stairs....

 

[KevinJRogers]

IMO, the more food options the better. The more you make available, the more it will become an attractive hub for people to visit.

Right. The technical term for it is "clustering." Research has shown a concentration of dining options in one area is a mutually supportive environment for each individual establishment. It's one of the (many) reasons I'm so in favor of the casino project: it can only help us.

[Full disclosure: I spent 30 years in the hospitality industry before retiring in 2014 and getting into other things.]

 

[franchise646]

as of May 24th

https://twitter.com/x/status/1927196397423542565

https://twitter.com/x/status/1927196405656883236

 

[Joe_Cos]

Billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen’s $8B Citi Field casino bid clears major Albany hurdle

The bill passed by the Senate Tuesday clears a procedural hurdle for Cohen’s $8 billion proposed casino complex by repurposing the proposed site, which is currently designated as parkland in the ey…

nypost.com

He still needs the Casino License but with Hudson Yards the Nassau Coliseum bids pulled. I think the 2 Racinos will get two and it’s either Cohen or Time Square. I really hope it’s TS.

 

[Buckley]

Dedicated ferry stop would be so clutch! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-new-nyc-ferry-stops-at-citi-field-laguardia

 

[Seth]

Dedicated ferry stop would be so clutch! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-new-nyc-ferry-stops-at-citi-field-laguardia

I take the ferry every now and then and really like it. Would be awesome to have a new stop near the stadium as I live in walking distance from the Astoria ferry stop.

Endorsed!

My best ferry use case: Warm summer day to Red Hook, then a few blocks walk to Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie. I've done it multiple times LOL

 

[moogoo]

I take the ferry every now and then and really like it. Would be awesome to have a new stop near the stadium as I live in walking distance from the Astoria ferry stop.

Endorsed!

My best ferry use case: Warm summer day to Red Hook, then a few blocks walk to Steve's Authentic Key Lime Pie. I've done it multiple times LOL

Ferry is great. From manhattan I sometimes take the free ikea ferry down to redhook on weekends. can't beat free!

if they open ferry stops at willets point, i'd be curious what kind of route they'd run.

 

[FootyLovin]

Dedicated ferry stop would be so clutch! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...s-new-nyc-ferry-stops-at-citi-field-laguardia

Ferry is awesome. I reverse commuted to Weehawken for 4 years by ferry. Sublimely calming as commutes go. Though hard to see how they could handle needed volume on match days, Mets days, US Open.

 

[Seth]

Ferry is awesome. I reverse commuted to Weehawken for 4 years by ferry. Sublimely calming as commutes go. Though hard to see how they could handle needed volume on match days, Mets days, US Open.

Oh no! Another UBS former employee? LOL

 

[FootyLovin]

Oh no! Another UBS former employee? LOL

I did a lot of things I'm not proud of in my youth. What can I say?

 

[Seth]

I did a lot of things I'm not proud of in my youth. What can I say?

I rode that ferry across the Hudson every day for seven or eight years. Was the best part of the job. There were some good people there also though.

Although actually, running the tech for a Mac design studio with Mac servers and 50 Macs in a company with 20,000 PCs was kinda fun in a twisted sort of way LOL

 

[mgarbowski]

Was UBS the only employer in Weehawken?

 

[Seth]

Was UBS the only employer in Weehawken?

Don't know about "only" but they had two large, blue, 10-story buildings side by side on the water, easily visible from the New York side of the river, for 4 or 5,000 people at one point I think. Although my last day there they let 2,000 people go. Was a fun day.

Was PaineWebber before UBS bought it. When I started it had just turned into UBS | PaineWebber, then over the time I was there it got rebranded as just UBS. The Weehawken office was the US headquarters.

 

[mgarbowski]

Don't know about "only" but they had two large, blue, 10-story buildings side by side on the water, easily visible from the New York side of the river, for 4 or 5,000 people at one point I think. Although my last day there they let 2,000 people go. Was a fun day.

Was PaineWebber before UBS bought it. When I started it had just turned into UBS | PaineWebber, then over the time I was there it got rebranded as just UBS. The Weehawken office was the US headquarters.

It's just that FootyLovin said simply that he commuted to Weehawken by ferry and you jump to he worked at UBS and it was correct lol.

 

[Seth]

It's just that FootyLovin said simply that he commuted to Weehawken by ferry and you jump to he worked at UBS and it was correct lol.

Well it was the Weehawken ferry commute that gave it away LOL

That ferry was something like $10 each way for a really short trip straight across the river, but if you were a UBS employee it was free. I don't think any normal human would pay for that much for that ride on their own. So really my guess was somewhat semi-informed and I can't take full credit for an out-of-the-blue wild guess!

 

[joe]

There was someone in a UBS fleece on my subway this morning so they might be the only employer in the entire metro area at this point

 

[FootyLovin]

Well it was the Weehawken ferry commute that gave it away LOL

That ferry was something like $10 each way for a really short trip straight across the river, but if you were a UBS employee it was free. I don't think any normal human would pay for that much for that ride on their own. So really my guess was somewhat semi-informed and I can't take full credit for an out-of-the-blue wild guess!

Yeah. It did not strike me at all as a strange guess to assume I was with UBS. I think that ferry basically served UBS and the condos right next to where it let off. I'm assuming anyone who could afford those condos would have no problem with paying for the ferry.

I was there from 1998 to 2003. I guess I got out way ahead of the mass layoffs.

 

[Seth]

Yeah. It did not strike me at all as a strange guess to assume I was with UBS. I think that ferry basically served UBS and the condos right next to where it let off. I'm assuming anyone who could afford those condos would have no problem with paying for the ferry.

I was there from 1998 to 2003. I guess I got out way ahead of the mass layoffs.

Ah, we just barely overlapped in that case. I was there from November 2002 through 2009. So it's possible we may have ridden the ferry together a few times!

 

[FootyLovin]

Ah, we just barely overlapped in that case. I was there from November 2002 through 2009. So it's possible we may have ridden the ferry together a few times!

Oh. Ok. You were that guy. I remember you now.

 

[Seth]

Oh. Ok. You were that guy. I remember you now.

Ugh, you don't even know how <many> times in my life I've heard <that> LOL