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Group Cries Foul Ball in Yankee Stadium Project

NEW YORK CITY-Good Jobs New York charges political maneuvering behind the new $1.3-billion Yankee Stadium. The Yankees tell GlobeSt.com the claims are a swing and a miss.

By Natalie Dolce | Updated on July 19, 2007

NEW YORK CITY-A lineup of former city officials were employed by the New York Yankees organization to help push through a new baseball stadium even though the project won’t benefit taxpayers or community members, claims a new report by Good Jobs New York. Yankees officials, however, tell GlobeSt.com that the group’s charges are “disgraceful” and that the project is a producer of thousands on local-area jobs.

The report, Insider Baseball: How Current and Former Public Officials Pitched a Community Shutout for the New York Yankees, also reveals cost increases of nearly $100 million for a total taxpayer hit of $655 million.

“The new Yankee Stadium is economic development on steroids: plenty of bravado but void of benefit for New Yorkers,” says Bettina Damiani, director of GJNY. “The project’s costs keep rising, the community lost its parks and there’s no one to hold accountable for creating new jobs. The only winners are the Yankees owners and management.”

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