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Stadiums Seem to Be All the Talk in City Hall

NEW YORK CITY-Stadiums for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, the Jets, the Yankees and the Mets are picking up momentum even though most of the needs for these facilities are years away.

By Amy Vaughn | Updated on October 02, 2000

NEW YORK CITY-Following Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s announcement two weeks ago that plans are in the proposal stage for a West Side stadium in Manhattan, stadiums have been among the most favorite topics of discussion here. The stadium on the West Side is, according to Giuliani, to serve as a home to the 2012 Olympics, should NYC 2012 be successful in its bid for the games. It would also be home to the New York Jets, the team that would currently be more appropriately named the North Jersey Jets. When Giuliani didn’t deny considering the site as a future home for the Bronx Bombers, people opposed to the Yankees playing in Manhattan were up in arms. Now the Mets’ stadium in Queens has joined the stadium banter.

NYC 2012 has already begun placing ads in local city papers saying, “Bringing the Olympic Games to New York” and marketing their Web site, www.nyc2012.com, which at press time, was not up and running. The committee hopes to bring the international sporting competition to the five boroughs with the Olympic Stadium, seating at least 800,000 people to Manhattan’s West Side.

The stadium is opposed by residents of the area and was originally to be a new Yankees’ stadium when the topic was first in the forefront in 1996. The plan was shot down by the City Council and Governor Pataki, arguing that not only did the Yankees belong in the Bronx in “the house that Ruth built,” but that it would be detrimental to the surrounding community of the site. Revitalization arguments were shot down citing numerous studies that have found the benefits to be far less than those hawked by city planners. Pointing to the neighborhoods around the Mets’ home, Shea Stadium in Queens, for example, known for its “chop-shops,” many on the West Side said they didn’t see the property now occupied by warehouses and transportation lots being greatly benefited by a stadium.

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