NEW YORK CITY-According to the latest GlobeSt.com poll, the vast majority of readers either aren’t in favor of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to build a convention center at the Aqueduct racetrack, or they simply don’t believe it will ever happen.

When asked what they thought of the plan, the largest percentage of readers—35%—said that it “doesn’t matter,” because the project “will never break ground.” Then 33% responded that the plan is the “dumbest idea” they had ever heard and 31% deemed it “brilliant.”

However, Hope Cohen, associate director at the Regional Plan Association’s Center for Urban Innovation, tells GlobeSt.com that the results are fairly typical, given that the plan is actually multi-faceted.

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