August 26, 2004
NYC Olympics would cost - hey, look over there!
And now for our Dan Doctoroff moment of the day, here's the NYC deputy mayor explaining, as only he can, why a New York Olympics would be "completely privately funded," despite relying for an Olympic stadium on the publicly funded $5-billion-plus Hudson Yards project:
Dan Doctoroff: The budget for the Olympic Games themselves, set the West Side Project aside, the price for the Olympic Games is about $3.6 billion ñ
WFAN sports-talk host Mike Francesca: Wait, how can set the West Side aside? You need the West Side ñ
DD: It's gonna happen whether we have the Olympics or not.
MK: How do you know that?
DD: Either it will or it won't. If it doesn't we won't have the Olympics, that's very clear. But if we don't have the Olympics, and assuming we get the approvals we need, it's going to go ahead even if we don't get the Olympics.
If Doctoroff finds himself out of office after next year's mayoral election, he might consider a second career.
Posted by Neil deMause
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