[BfloGuy]

I feel sorry for all these old, dying upstate towns. The business, taxation and regulatory climate is so bad in New York that no one even hopes for industry to return. So the citizens (and the local politicians) are left with one option: trying to induce tourism in a cold climate.

It's a terrible, losing bet because the high investments must be recouped in just several months a year and rarely can be. Of course, this is a government project so ROI is not an issue. Yonkers will, no doubt, look nicer when it's finished, but whatever development occurs there will have been pulled from somewhere else and will be massively subsidized, too.

It's the logical result of the blue state regimes.

[COBOL2Java]

I feel sorry for all these old, dying upstate towns.

I hear ya, but I don't think Yonkers could be considered as "upstate"...