March 24, 2006
The stadium so nice they approved it twice
The New York Yankees and Mets stadium proposals "got another boost" yesterday, according to amNewYork, when the board of the state-run Empire State Development Corporation approved $70 million apiece in state subsidies for the two projects. This is totally different from when the ESDC board approved the plans back in January, albeit different in some inscrutable bureaucratic way.
In other New York stadium news, Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez weighed in on the Yankees controversy yesterday, noting how the parkland seizure was approved in a record five days last June and calling the Bronx Democratic machine "a bat boy for Yankee owner George Steinbrenner"; and the website onNYTurf has a cool new interactive map of the proposed Bronx project, including diagrams of how parkland would be moved around and before-and-after images.
