August 27, 2004
Jets stadium headed to court
Just four years into the Jets-to-Manhattan controversy, and finally someone has thrown out the first lawsuit. Opponents of the plan, including the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association and Knicks and Rangers owner Cablevision, filed suit in state court yesterday charging that the draft environmental impact statement released by the city in June is inadequate. The EIS, according to the litigants, fails to properly examine the Hudson Yards project's likely impact on air and water quality, while projecting "significant adverse traffic impacts" without including sufficient proposals for mitigation. And if that all sounds nitpicky in the face of a multi-billion-dollar project, just remember, that's what they said about the fish.
