April 06, 2005
The first thing we do is thrill all the lawyers
My Village Voice colleague Tom Robbins chimes in this week on the aftermath of last week's MTA vote, including this priceless Kodak moment:
At a press conference following the vote, city budget director Mark Page, the Bloomberg administration's senior appointee to the MTA board, was asked if perhaps the city owed a debt of gratitude to Cablevision for having forced the Jets to more than double their original price?Page hesitated, scowled, and then muttered in a barely audible voice, "You could say that."
Robbins also notes that a previous MTA land sale, of the old New York Coliseum at Columbus Circle, was scuttled by the courts in 1989 when a state judge ruled that it was illegal to offer to rezone land in order to boost the sale price. The coming legal battles over the Jets stadium could yet make Westway look like a visit to Judge Wapner.
Posted by Neil deMause
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