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June 3, 2010
Must See on the Internets: "Stadium Status"
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Coming soon on YouTube is the Internets Celebrities' must-see video "Stadium Status," which humorously and bitingly eviscerates the stadium/arena mania under the Bloomberg administration.
Atlantic Yards is front and center.
Stadium Status should be live on YouTube later today, and we'll post it as soon as we're able to. Here's a short preview to tide you over.
Related coverage...
The New York Times, Three Men and a Video Camera, Out to Reveal Urban Truths
Their most recent and ambitious effort, “Stadium Status,” which will be shown for the first time Tuesday evening at the Brooklyn Public Library, takes on local sports franchises that get millions of dollars in tax breaks and other incentives while their neighbors scramble to make ends meet in a sour economy. The idea that luxury lives next door to poverty is not lost on the filmmakers.
“In this city you can have the poorest and the wealthiest, sometimes in the same ZIP code,” Mr. Penn said. “But even in this huge city, people feel separated and that shouldn’t be. I hope our films can show that one way or another we are all connected.”
...In “Stadium Status,” the filmmakers lament that sports franchises promise trickle-down benefits to local merchants who never get the same type of economic incentives. “You go to the stadium, you’re not going shopping or eating on River Avenue,” Mr. Penn said. “Yankee Stadium is like a mall, where everything happens in the confines of the stadium. At the end of the game, you just go to your car and get on the Major Deegan.”
Posted by eric at June 3, 2010 9:35 AM