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Sunday, November 30, 2008
And here I thought Rocky Colavito loading his Caddy up with pilfed candy after his final Yankee Stadium game was a big deal.
The Bloomberg administration was so intent on obtaining a free luxury suite for its own use at the new Yankee Stadium, newly released e-mail messages show, that the mayor’s aides pushed for a larger suite and free food, and eventually gave the Yankees 250 additional parking spaces in exchange.
The parking spaces were given to the team for the private use of Yankees officials, players and others; the spaces were originally planned for public parking. The city also turned over the rights to three new billboards along the Major Deegan Expressway, and whatever revenue they generate, as part of the deal.
The e-mail messages between the aides to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Yankees executives were obtained and released by Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, Democrat of Westchester, who questions whether taxpayers were adequately protected in the city’s deal with the team.
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Posted: November 30, 2008 at 03:17 PM | 8 comment(s)
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1. Rough CarriganAll the new yorkers on the board should keep this in mind next time they want to rip on Boston. In the last 10 years there's been a new Boston Garden and a new stadium for the Patriots both all privately financed. New York looks like just another overgrown midwest cowtown for the way it bent over and grabbed its ankles for a billion dollar business that didn't need any help.
Provincialism ain't just out in the provinces!
Baseball is a funny game.
No doubt. I just wasn't expecting to see a "you give me a luxury suite I'll give you 3 billboards" negotiation ... especially as part of a negotiation over 100s of millions of dollars. What's wrong with America today that you can't even get a stinking luxury box in exchange for 100s of millions of taxpayer dollars? Why would anyone want the headache of being mayor of New York if you can't even get decent bribes anymore?
And the Yanks should have held out for parking meter revenues on 7th avenue between 21st and 24th. (I just picked those out of thin air)
crooked politicians cheating the taxpayers
i'm shocked. SHOCKED
All the new yorkers on the board should keep this in mind next time they want to rip on Boston. In the last 10 years there's been a new Boston Garden and a new stadium for the Patriots both all privately financed. New York looks like just another overgrown midwest cowtown for the way it bent over and grabbed its ankles for a billion dollar business that didn't need any help.
Yeah, you're right. There's never been any political corruption in Boston.
chick-a-Doom has it 100% spot-on.
Of every $100 that comes under government control or influence, you've got to expect $10 to be outright stolen, another $20 to be lost to inefficiency, and another $20 diverted to buy votes.
Sorry. Most of us are still under water.
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