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March 30, 2007
Bloomberg says...
Queen's Crap posted a link to Mayor Bloomberg on the campaign trail, where he tells folks what they want to hear.
Bloomie sez:
"This city cannot build the schools, expand the libraries, fix the potholes and build big sports facilities at this time...Shea and Yankee Stadiums don't make any money for the city...If you counted the infrastructure for Shea and Yankee Stadiums, they are disasters for the city...We are only going to build stadiums if there's private money."
NoLandGrab: Even though Bloomberg eventually got NY City to pony up $205 million for the Ratner arena — for starters — and left us on the hook for "extraordinary infrastructure costs" (read: blank check), in 2004 he sold Atlantic Yards as a private project:
"The new stadium over in Brooklyn for the Nets is private money. Bruce Ratner is going to finance it himself."
Bruce Ratner doesn't build anything exclusively with private money. Anyone who thinks so doesn't have what it takes to be Mayor of anything.
Posted by lumi at March 30, 2007 7:15 AM