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I for one was quite happy to see the current stadium plans scuttled.

Things tend to take quite some time to get large gargantuan things like this through all the courts, community boards, etc. yet this one seemed to be on a fast track? How come? Who's interests were being catered to?

Between that stadium and the Nets stadium that they want to put in Brooklyn it would effectively displace tens of thousands of people, and if it did not do it directly immediately it would by gentrification and rising housing rates.

Personally I felt the idea was a rushed half thought out plan. Sheldon Silver, my assemblyman and one that abstained his vote, I applaud for his concern for the constiuents of the people who live in his district (Lower Manhattan including my neighborhoood Lower Eastside, and WTC.)

If it were not for Mr. Silver they would be breaking ground a few blocks from where I live to put up low income housing. The LES has the highest density of low income housing than any other area of Manhattan. Yet there seems to not be any lower income housing being planned out for say, Upper West/East Side...

I lived in LA during the 84 Olympics. I know that was one of the games that was profitable for the city but from what I recall it's normally not profitable for most cities.

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