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June 13, 2007
Silver Challenges Health Benefits Promised in Manhattan Toll Plan
The NY Times
Though State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver skipped last week's hearings on congestion pricing to attend a fundraiser, he still has concerns and questions:
But Mr. Silver’s remarks underscored that he may once again serve as the mayor’s foil in Albany. His opposition doomed the mayor’s plan to build a West Side football stadium for the New York Jets. Asked about parallels to that battle, Mr. Silver harked back to the mayor’s contention then that a Manhattan stadium would not cause undue congestion.
The stadium, Mr. Silver pointed out, would have been “right in the middle of this congested zone.”
“At that time, a year ago, there obviously was no congestion,” he added, facetiously. “We can even put this stadium to attract 100,000 people to come in right in the middle of the zone and there was no problem.”
NoLandGrab: Thanks to Silver's approval of Bruce Ratner's controversial Atlantic Yards plan, Brooklynites will be getting the parking lots AND a stadium.
Posted by lumi at June 13, 2007 8:51 AM