WINNING THE WEST.(The Talk of the Town)(battle over whether or not to construct a football stadium on the West Side of Manhattan)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-JUL-04

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Both sides have started punching harder lately in the brawl over whether or not to build a seventy-five-thousand-seat football stadium over the Hudson rail yards on Manhattan's far West Side. The New York Jets, who would own the place, will be taking computers from the mouths of needy schoolchildren if the state and the city are forced to provide the six hundred million dollars that would be their part of the deal--or, at least, that's what the television ads paid for by the Dolan family, the owners of Madison Square Garden, say. Nonsense, say the Jets and their supporters, who include Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki, and the construction unions. The stadium will be such a financial success that it will end up giving computers to needy schoolchildren. Opponents say that the stadium will sink New York City's bid to host the 2012 Olympics (the International Olympic Committee does not like controversy). No, say the...

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