The more Bloomberg whines, the gladder I am that stadium went pfffffft!

[BurtWorm]

The whining is unbelievable!


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/nyregion/08mayor.html


Less than 24 hours after watching his stadium dreams crushed in Albany, the mayor delivered a downcast assessment of the city's future even as he vowed to continue pushing an aggressive development agenda. His normally sanguine outlook tempered by the previous day's events, Mr. Bloomberg said the defeat of the Manhattan stadium threatened to define New York as a place where big ideas are doomed to fail.

"I think it was a major blow to this city," he said. "I think most people understand this; that we have lost something. We've lost a little bit of our spirit to go ahead and our can-do attitude. If you adopt this kind of policy, we never would have built Carnegie Hall, we never would have built Radio City Music Hall, we never would have built the airports, or the Triborough Bridge or Central Park."

He added, "One of the great dangers is that developers are going to get disheartened and say, 'I can't build anything in New York City because the politics always get in the way.' "

[Deja Q]

1. Bullshit mindset.

People need to use what they have. Our "society" depends on expansion and growth. That is no longer possible if we wish to survive as a species. In some ways we've past the point already, but continued damage would threaten, amongst other things, the Earth's ecology to the point of mass extinctions of species.

But what's all that when we need more in profits? x(

[SammyBlue]

2. Mayor Bloomberg

Proof that small men with minds and small worldviews shouldn't be put in the big time.

Take you billons, "mayor" can SIUYA!!! (stuff it up your ass!) Better yet, piss on you and STFU! You RUINED NYC!!!

[BurtWorm]

3. Actually, Rudy ruined it.

He turned it into a suburb of itself.

[Cha]

4. Isn't bloomberg the voice of

DOOM AND GLOOM?

So why didn't Sheldon want it? Too much traffic?

[BurtWorm]

6. He thought it was a distraction from Downtown.

(In other words, Bloomberg didn't kowtow low enough.)

[Cha]

8. Did you want the

stadium there, Burt?

[BurtWorm]

9. Nuh-uh!

I'm glad things have turned out the way they have. I didn't want the Olympics here either. But the stadium is insane.

[DemInDistress]

5. Shame on Bloomberg....

4 years later not a dollar nor a brick laid for the new world trade center.Sheldon Silver saw the ploy,make mid-town Manhattan the new financial center....New York City residents mourn the loss in lower Manhattan and want the Twin Towers back...Shame on Bloomy for having his head up his ass

[ComerPerro]

7. Wait... let me get this straight:

If people want a stadium that they can then take ownership of and charge admission to, they have to pay for it themselves????

That's not fair!


:sarcasm:

[Bob3]

10. Did public money into building Radio City ?

I don't think so schmuck.

Bloomberg is an ass - a typical my way or the high way CEO who when thwarted starts to make sounds like its the end of the world.

As Mr. Silver pointed out the Mayor and the twit in Albany had almost 4 years to start the rebuilding of lower Manhattan including the world trade center but instead they went off on this stadium insider wet dream nonsense. (as a side note did you know the damned rail yards they were going to build the stadium on top of are active? Very active LIRR, Amtrak and New Jersey Metro use those yards all the time. what the hell did they do have a contest to see where the worst place to build a stadium would be?)

Also if the developers of the day had had their way - there would be no central park either - that was the city having a plan and sticking to it despite vast pressures from cash maddened greed heads.

Construction in New York Continues apace there's a huge hole at 42nd and 6th ave where something is going up. - it's just this gorge at the tax dollar feed bag won't be happening - sorry fellas better luck next time.

[geek tragedy]

11. Waaaaaaa! No big vanity project for Mikey.

Boo freaking hoo. This city has enough problems without adding a $2 Billion white elephant.

[noamnety]

12. I believe he was misquoted

Surely he said this: "One of the great dangers is that developers are going to get disheartened and say, 'I can't build anything in New York City unless I actually invest my own money because the politics always get in the way.' "

I'm positive the journalist left out that one phrase - because the quote sounds exceedingly idiotic without it.