[Clemenza]

So let the market and public funds determine if it gets built. Instead, the state and city should give residents a tax cut if there is money to spend on an essentially private sector building like a stadium.

Amen.

Besides, building it out in suburbia is a much better idea. Most of the Jets fans are in Jersey, Rockland and Long Island anyway. Traffic through the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels is bad enough without a bunch of football fans driving in.

Between the Stadium and the Convention Center, I swear Bloomingidiot is acting like the mayor of a third tier Midwestern city. What next a "outdoor mall/lifestyle center?"

[conservative in nyc]

What public money is going into building the stadium? Last I heard, the Jets were willing to pay for and to build the platform over the rail yards. The only public money I'm aware of would go to extend the 7 train to the site, which would be needed before anything of substance is built there, since it's far from the closest subway line on 8th Avenue.

[oceanview]

because building it in Flushing or in NJ won't bring any economic growth to those areas post construction. whats around shea stadium now? nothing, people drive to the game and go home. there is no hotel business, no conventions, no people eating at restaurants. there is zero economic benefit (other then the construction work itself) to building it in a swamp or next to Shea stadium. It won't bring any tourism or convention dollars to those areas. People will simply drive to the game, and leave, just like they do now.