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Today’s Fight Over The Brooklyn Heights Promenade Recalls Its Embattled Origin Story | Gothamist

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Neil deMause

The current battle over the stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that runs past Brooklyn Heights is heating up, as the Department of Transportation and community members exchange plans and counterplans for the fate of the highway — and for that … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Highways

How A Mythical Soccer Stadium Became Queens’ Biggest Political Futbol | Gothamist

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Neil deMause

Willets Point, the warren of auto-repair shops that for generations sat on a muddy peninsula between the Mets’ ballpark and Flushing Creek, has been targeted for an overhaul ever since “the Mets’ ballpark” still meant Shea Stadium. When the Bloomberg … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Development, Queens, Soccer, Stadiums and Arenas

Amazon Can’t Close The BQX’s Giant Budget Hole | Gothamist

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Neil deMause

Almost from the second Amazon announced it would be opening a new campus on the Long Island City waterfront, talk began that this could be just the thing to revive Mayor Bill de Blasio’s long-stalled Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar project. Friends … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Queens, Traffic and Transit

A First Look At Everything New York Will Give Amazon To Come To Queens | Gothamist

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Neil deMause

For everyone wondering when we would find out how much boodle Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio offered to Amazon in exchange for coming to Long Island City, the answer is now: As part of its official announcement designating New … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Corporate Subsidies, Queens

A Few Questions Need Answers Before Amazon Invades Long Island City | Gothamist

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Neil deMause

Monday’s bombshell revelation that Amazon might be ready to split its new second headquarters in two and locate one half in Long Island City, initially reported in the Wall Street Journal but later repeated by the Times, let loose a … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Corporate Subsidies, Development, Queens

New School Study Uncovers Another $1 Billion In Hudson Yards Subsidies | Gothamist

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Neil deMause

When we reported last month on the approximately $4.5 billion that city taxpayers are spending on the “dynamic neighborhood” of Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side, eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that our breakdown of the costs featured a tilde … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Corporate Subsidies, Development, New York City

What If NYC Evicted Madison Square Garden? | Gothamist

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Neil deMause

Now that the Knicks have finally gotten their latest season of misery underway — they had a bit of a speed bump in beating the Hawks on opening night, but the Nets, Celtics, and Bucks soon restored order to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, New York City, Stadiums and Arenas, Traffic and Transit

Hudson Yards Has $4.5 Billion In Taxpayer Money. Will We Ever See It Again? | Gothamist

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Neil deMause

As the massive stalagmites of Hudson Yards intrude upon the Manhattan skyline, it’s easy to focus just on the impact on the streetscape of the onetime no-man’s land between Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen: Out with the diners and gas stations, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Corporate Subsidies, Development, New York City

Gentrifying Highbridge Faces a Rocky Future | Village Voice (with Coco McPherson)

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Neil deMause

In recent years, the Bronx neighborhood of Highbridge — perched on a steep ridge between the Harlem River on one side, and the valley that holds the 4 train and Yankee Stadium on the other — has become pockmarked with … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Bronx, Development

NYCFC Wants Its Own Islanders-Style Stadium Subsidy | Village Voice

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Neil deMause

If you’re still wrapping your brain around the math behind the New York Islanders’ “give us cheap state land and we’ll build an arena complex on it” proposal, get ready for the Bronx version. According to information leaked to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Bronx, Stadiums and Arenas

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