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March 03, 2008
Bloomberg gets Yanks, Mets numbers wrong
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared on his radio show last Friday that "the city and the state, to my recollection, each put in $75 million" for each of the new Mets and Yankees stadiums. As regular readers of this site should recall, the actual city/state cost is about triple the mayor's estimate, with the federal government getting hit up for a share as well.
More details in my op-ed today in Metro NY, or at the newly updated Yanks/Mets stadium cost spreadsheet.