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June 20, 2008

Yanks' promises to Bronx still unfulfilled

Further updates on the New York Yankees stadium project:

  • The New York Daily News' Juan Gonzalez reports that of the $1.6 million the Yankees were supposed to have given out to Bronx youth groups and nonprofits as part of the deal, only $12,000 has been allocated. And as for promises that construction jobs would go to Bronx residents, Gonzalez reports that the Yanks have provided no detailed numbers, and that some construction unions have been "checkerboarding" - shifting members already employed at Manhattan construction sites to the Bronx, raising their local employment figures without actually giving locals any more jobs.
  • The new stadium isn't even finished yet, and it's already landed on amNY's list of the city's ugliest buildings. "What makes it so terrible is summed up by all the waste it represents," says "Harlem Lost and Found" author Michael Henry Adams. "Imagine, the 'House that Ruth Built,' where two popes have prayed, where Lou Gehrig declared himself 'the luckiest man on the face of the earth,' where Joe Louis struck a decisive blow against racism, where Mandela celebrated the end of Apartheid and New Yorkers collectively mourned 9-11; with fan's ashes scattered all over the outfield--deliberately, irrevocably, destroyed?"
  • Ugly and ahistoric it may be, but the new stadium will boast a whopping huge Hard Rock Cafe.

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