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March 13, 2009
$70 Billion in Requests for $4 Billion in New York Stimulus Funds
ThePoliticker.com
By Eliot Brown
As part of the Paterson administration’s “Economic Recovery Update” on the stimulus spending, the governor’s office sent an email out this afternoon of a draft list of requests it has received for infrastructure-related federal stimulus funds.
The unranked list, a 461-page document with 11,842 projects, totals around $70 billion in requests, according to a spokeswoman for the governor’s office. The state has just $4 billion or so to dole out for infrastructure, said the spokeswoman.
Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards megaproject does not appear to be on the list; however, reporter Eliot Brown adds, "the list also notes that not all project requests have been included," so stay tuned...
Posted by lumi at March 13, 2009 5:52 AM