Today’s Wall Street Journal takes an intense look at the new Yankee Stadium with an article entitled, “Yankee Stadium’s Ugly Start : Cheap Home Runs, Empty Seats and Lopsided Losses Have Some Asking, ‘Can a Stadium Fail?‘” It’s a well done piece which looks closely at what (overall) make a stadium succeed. However, the article [...]
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Is Yankee Stadium’s Rough Start Bad Karma?
Posted by cathryn on May 15, 2009
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2009/05/15/is-yankee-stadiums-rough-start-bad-karma/
Mayor Bloomberg’s Washington Square Park Redesign: Over budget. Delayed. And NYU can’t even hold their graduation ceremony there…
Well, that blogging break lasted one day but I have a bit of information for you … NYU has announced that this year’s graduation ceremony will again take place at Yankee Stadium (the new one for which close to 400 trees and 1.5 parks in the Bronx were sacrificed*) because Washington Square Park, their favored [...]
Posted by cathryn on March 24, 2009
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2009/03/24/mayor-bloombergs-washington-square-park-redesign-over-budget-delayed-and-nyu-cant-even-hold-their-graduation-ceremony-there/
On Yankee Stadium: Replacement Parkland now 67% over initial projected cost … and about those tax-free bonds
The Yankee Stadium “replacement” Parkland costs, originally projected at $ 116.1 million, have now risen 67% to close to $195 million, according to a report released yesterday by the Independent Budget Office as reported in Crain’s New York Business. The only reason we know this is due to the fact that the Independent Budget Office [...]
Posted by cathryn on January 28, 2009
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2009/01/28/on-yankee-stadium-replacement-parkland-now-67-over-initial-projected-cost-and-about-those-tax-free-bonds/
Mayor Mike In the News … You win some, you lose some?
Having attended (and reported back on) the federal court hearing around term limits last week in downtown Brooklyn, I am not surprised that Judge Charles P. Sifton ruled in the City’s favor saying the term limit overhaul can stay. I would have been awfully surprised if Judge Sifton, who seemed really tired and troubled (confused [...]
Posted by cathryn on January 14, 2009
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2009/01/14/mayor-mike-in-the-news-you-win-some-you-lose-some/
Privatized Stadium in Public Parks – On Yankee Stadium, the Bloomberg Administration and that Luxury Suite
The Bloomberg Administration agreed to obliterate one and a half parks (and 400 trees) in the green space-challenged South Bronx with the City’s highest asthma rates in order to provide the Yankee Corporation the land for a new stadium. More and more details about this “deal” keep being revealed and it’s just as murky as [...]
Posted by cathryn on December 1, 2008
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2008/12/01/privatized-stadium-in-public-parks-on-yankee-stadium-the-bloomberg-administration-and-that-luxury-suite/
Today’s Daily News on Yankee Stadium “Replacement Parks”: South Bronx Residents cry foul as parks get Yanked
The tragedy that is the destruction of two Bronx parks for Yankee Stadium, a corporate entity, continues to make news. It’s almost inconceivable to fathom that more than 22 acres of parkland in the Bronx and over 400 trees were destroyed for the Yankees to build a new stadium. When their last stadium was built, [...]
Posted by cathryn on August 20, 2008
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2008/08/20/todays-daily-news-on-yankee-stadium-replacement-parks-south-bronx-residents-cry-foul-as-parks-get-yanked-for-stadium-construction/
NY Daily News: “Kiss my grass, Mayor Bloomberg” by Michael O’Keefe
There has been much to report on Parks in the news lately … I’m still catching up! Michael O’Keefe, the New York Daily News Sports writer, wrote this past Sunday about the upcoming Jon Bon Jovi concert on Central Park‘s Great Lawn: Fans of Sayreville’s own Bon Jovi have apparently learned how to defy the [...]
Posted by cathryn on July 8, 2008
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2008/07/08/ny-daily-news-kiss-my-grass-mayor-bloomberg-by-michael-okeefe/
NY Daily News: “Fort Yankee Stadium” Or … Mayor Bloomberg further shows his true colors
From yesterday’s New York Daily News: Fort Yankee Stadium Mayor Bloomberg apparently has adopted a bunker mentality on the new Yankee Stadium project, as serious questions arise over “equal” replacement of parkland, huge cost overruns, questionable financing and other issues. Parks Commish Adrian Benepe is now under orders to pass any media inquiries about the [...]
Posted by cathryn on July 1, 2008
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2008/07/01/ny-daily-news-fort-yankee-stadium-or-mayor-bloomberg-shows-his-true-colors/
Yankee Stadium Parks update: Parks Dept is “inexperienced” in building parks on top of parking garages.
The New York City Council Parks & Recreation Committee called the NYC Parks Department forward to ask a few questions yesterday about the delays (2 years) and skyrocketing costs (from budgeted $99.5 million to now $174 million) of replacing parkland in the South Bronx taken away to create the new Yankee Stadium. Remember how NYC [...]
Posted by cathryn on June 25, 2008
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2008/06/25/yankee-stadium-parks-update-parks-dept-is-inexperienced-in-building-parks-on-top-of-parking-garages/
In the News: “Green Thievery in the South Bronx”
It continues to astound me that New York City and the Yankees Corporation got away with destroying TWO parks in the South Bronx to construct a new Yankee stadium. Imagine Yankees management years ago looking across the way from the current stadium at those pesky parks, Macombs Dam and John Mullaly. These two parks comprised [...]
Posted by cathryn on June 16, 2008
http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2008/06/16/in-the-news-green-thievery-in-the-south-bronx/
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