Now if we could only get the City to issue hunting licenses for central Park, they'd pass out.
If you want to mess with them, tell them president Bush signed an executive order that only country music and blue grass can be performed at Lincoln center and Carnegie Hall. Or that Gracie Mansion is going to fly a Confederate flag.
ping
wait a sec... will this be taxpayer funded? cuz if the NY'ers don't buy tickets, that could bankrupt NASCAR
I thought Staten Island was in NJ.
They do perform blue grass at carnegie hall. it is one of the few venues of note that can be rented out by anyone with the cash.
Build the track on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Don't forget staged productions of Hee Haw on Broadway!
Many of the old Marlboro commericals which appeared to be in Bush country were actually made in Clove Lakes park on Staten Island.
Goodie.
I've never understood the appeal of NASCAR.
I see it on TV and to me it just looks like a bunch of cars racing around a track. Pretty boring if you ask me, watching that for hours and hours.
Football and baseball are far more entertaining to watch.
Let me be serious for a minute, Nascar is no longer a lot of good old boys racing cars with others watching them. Its become a big business. Nascar has no traditions any more no matter how they try to insist they do. They call them stock cars when there isnt a stock item on any of these cars.
They took the venues that made them and closed them up when it became more profitable to race on new tracks, No more Southern 500. Its all about money and sponsores now.
If you dont have a rich guy sponsoring you or a daddy who drove you can forget ever driving a Nascar race.
If New York gets a track who's race will they steal?
I enjoy watching the races but its not the same. Never will be.
Kennedy said the track probably could not be completed until 2009 or 2010. The parcels that were purchased by an ISC subsidiary, 380 Development, include a 450-acre waterfront tract owned by GATX Corp., and a 1-acre parcel bought from an unidentified owner.
The subsidiary also plans to spend $10 million to buy an additional 236 acres from Duke Energy in January. In all, ISC wants to acquire 660 acres, which it said would be the largest undeveloped block of land within New York City.
Agreed. The idea of a hundred thousand NASCAR fans decending on NYC is hilarious!
NECKCAR in New York!!! I never thought I'd live to see the day.
What a joke. A NASCAR race is far more about the party than the so called racing (real race cars do not have restrictor plates or engines more old fashioned than comparable production vehicles). There are more than 250 RVs in the pits alone. Without a full infield, the place will die.
There is no way people can get to this Roller Derby in style, or will even attempt it more than once.
So9
Well there is a nightmare just waiting to happen