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The New York Times October 1, 2005
Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey's most enduring mission since taking office nearly 11 months ago has been the revitalization of New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex...

New York Newsday September 30, 2005
In a deal that formally ends the Jets' plans to return to their New York roots, the team yesterday agreed with the Giants to jointly finance and build...

The New York Times September 30, 2005
The Jets and Giants signed an agreement on Thursday to jointly build a stadium complex in the New Jersey Meadowlands, ending the Jets' long and tumultuous attempt to
cross the Hudson River...

New York Daily News September 30, 2005
The Jets and Giants made NFL history yesterday, sealing a joint stadium deal that will keep both teams
in New Jersey for 99 years...

The New York Times September 29, 2005
In a sudden turnabout after weeks of jostling, name-calling and bitterness, the Jets and the Giants were close yesterday to signing a 50-50 partnership agreement...

The New York Times September 28, 2005
The chances of the Giants and the Jets making football history by building a two-team stadium in the Meadowlands
dimmed this week...

New York Post September 28, 2005
During the bare-fisted battle over a West Side stadium, top brass at Cablevision tried to lean on the Regional Plan Association to change a much-awaited report...

Newark Star-Ledger September 25, 2005
And by Thursday afternoon, after again being summoned to Tagliabue's office in New York, Giants chief executive John Mara and Jets owner Woody Johnson found themselves at an impasse...

Newark Star-Ledger September 23, 2005
The Jets are again seriously considering moving the team to New York, this time to a stadium in Queens...

Newark Star-Ledger September 21, 2005
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue has jumped into the negotiations for a shared stadium for the Jets and the Giants...

New York Newsday September 17, 2005
The Giants and Jets are not scheduled to meet on the field in a game that counts until 2007, but in the next 12 days,
they face a showdown...

The New York Times September 17, 2005
Richard Sandomir column giving historical context
to Giants-Jets conflict

The New York Times September 17, 2005
It is now up to the Giants and the Jets whether there will be a new stadium complex in the Meadowlands...

New York Newsday September 16, 2005
Giants, Jets still at odds

Associated Press September 16, 2005
The New York Giants on Thursday said they were close to deals for a new football stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex to be owned and operated jointly with the New York Jets.

The New York Times September 16, 2005
...The Giants, who have long been the premier tenant at the Meadowlands complex, must also strike a partnership with the Jets by Monday to operate the new stadium...But there were still substantial differences to overcome with the Jets...

The New York Times September 15, 2005
Jets Ask to Extend Lease in New Jersey by 10 Years

Newark Star-Ledger September 15, 2005
...If you didn't know better, you'd have sworn that they weren't debating about a stadium lease but gathering to decide who gets the contract to rebuild the Tower of Babel...

The New York Times September 14, 2005
The Giants asked the developers, the Mills Corporation and Mack-Cali Realty, only to provide more parking spaces and support the team's stadium proposal over a more ambitious plan from the Jets...

The New York Times September 12, 2005
The owners of Madison Square Garden, the arena that traces its origins back to P. T. Barnum 131 years ago and became the site of New York City's most famous boxing matches and basketball games, are in talks with two developers to build its fifth incarnation, a block west of its current home...

New York Daily News
Op-Ed Helen Marshall
September 11, 2005
The New York Jets have decided that Queens would be the best site to build a football stadium, and they're right...

The New York Times & New York Newsday September 1, 2005 The New York Jets Wednesday formally ended their multiyear bid to build a $2.2-billion football stadium on the West Side...

The New York Times August 31, 2005
The New York Giants have gone to court to try to block their neighbor, the planned $1.3 billion Meadowlands Xanadu...

New York Daily News August 31, 2005
The Jets will pull the plug today on their proposal to build a $1.9 billion stadium on Manhattan's far West Side...

New York Newsday August 27, 2005
The Jets said Friday that if they built a new football stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park they would not only replace any parkland taken but also add a little fútbol to boot...

The Bergen Record August 26, 2005
The New York Giants are supposed to work out agreements for their $800 million stadium plan by Sept. 15 with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, with the New York Jets, and with the developers of the nearby Xanadu project...

New York Post August 23, 2005
The New York Jets and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall will meet today to map out a game plan for building the team a new stadium in Flushing Meadows Park...

The New York Times August 23, 2005
In the latest round of As the Jets Turn, it is hard to know the players' positions without a scorecard....

New York Daily News August 21, 2005 Gary Myers Column

New York Post August 19, 2005
If the city hands off 13 acres of Flushing Mead ows Park for the team's new stadium, the Jets are ready to turn the junkyards and auto shops adjacent to the park...

Newark Star Ledger August 18, 2005
The Giants' latest plan for a new stadium complex in the Meadowlands contrasts starkly with the
Jets' proposal for the site...

New York Post August 18, 2005
In a desperate play to escape lifetime exile in New Jersey, the Jets are huddling with the city to hammer out plans
to build a new stadium...

New York Newsday, Daily News August 17, 2005
Jets to move training camp to Jersey Shore?
Time for NEW YORK Jet fans to act is now!...

New York Times August 12, 2005
New Jersey officials on Thursday applauded a proposal for a huge new football stadium in the Meadowlands sports complex to house the Giants and the Jets, urging the teams to consider a retractable dome...

New York Daily News August 11, 2005
Yesterday, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall invited the Jets to return to Queens...

The New York Times August 8, 2005
Hotel and tourism executives have wanted a bigger convention hall to attract even bigger trade shows ever since the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center opened its doors in 1986...

The New York Times July 30, 2005
After the failure of his effort to build a stadium for the Jets on a giant platform on the site of the West Side railyards, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that he supported a plan by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority...

New York Daily News July 30, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg offered qualified support yesterday for an MTA proposal to build a platform over the West Side railyards...

Whither Go The Jets?

What would this man say?
July 29, 2005

The New York Times July 28, 2005
Buoyed by an unexpected surge in tax revenue, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday that it would have a surplus of $833 million this year and that it would consider using the money to create a giant platform
over its West Side railyards...

The New York Times July 28, 2005 Despite a higher cash offer from a rival bidder, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted yesterday to enter into exclusive negotiations to sell the developer Bruce C. Ratner the rights to build
an arena for the Nets...

New York Post July 28, 2005
...The announcement means the Jets' dream of a West Side stadium is all but dead...

New York Newsday July 28, 2005
The MTA will end this year with a $833-million surplus, allowing it to avert service cuts and develop the West Side rail yards by itself, instead of selling the site to the Jets...

New York Daily News July 28, 2005
...Their proposal essentially sounds the death knell for the Jets' hopes for a West Side stadium, as MTA officials said yesterday they were under no obligation to close a deal with the Jets...

New York Daily News July 27, 2005
The Jets and the MTA have set an Aug. 31 deadline to decide whether to move forward...

The New York Times July 27, 2005
The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to postpone a vote today to select a winning bid to develop the Atlantic railyard...

New York Daily News July 26, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg's four representatives on the MTA's board will vote to hold further negotiations with Forest City Ratner...

New York Daily News July 24, 2005
It started with a ripple, when a crowd of union hardhats stood alongside Mayor Bloomberg last April...

The New York Times July 23, 2005
The Jets, who never formally gave up their quest to build a football stadium over the railyards on the West Side of Manhattan, missed an important deadline this month...

The New York Times July 23, 2005
A rival bidder to Bruce Ratner, the developer, has made a $150 million cash offer for development rights at the Atlantic railyard...

New York Post July 23, 2005
The MTA wants a whopping $214.5 million for the Brooklyn land where Bruce Ratner hopes to build an NBA arena...

Associated Press July 22, 2005
The New York Jets will pay less rent to use Giants Stadium, under a deal announced Thursday...

New York Post July 21, 2005
Gov. Pataki's favorable rating has climbed to its highest levels of the year even though a majority of New Yorkers still think it's time for a new governor...

New York Daily News July 20, 2005
The race for City Hall is quickly becoming a race for second place - both in the general mayoral election and in the Democratic primary, a new poll shows...

New York Times July 20, 2005
There are a lot of reasons Stamford has done so well, with about 15 million square feet of office space under rent, most notably the home of the giant UBS international investment bank lured from Manhattan. But one of them stands out: Since the 1960's the city has been using its power of eminent domain...

New York Post July 20, 2005
On top of the massive amounts of money spent on lobbying over the failed West Side stadium, Cablevision and the Jets pumped out $70,000 in last-minute campaign contributions...

New York Daily News July 19, 2005

State and city officials yesterday named the developers who will replace one of the city's lost jewels -
the old Pennsylvania Station...

The New York Times July 19, 2005
The Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday that he was backing a plan by Bruce C. Ratner, the developer,
to build a canyon of skyscrapers...

The New York Times July 18, 2005
While few voters may be aware of it, a $2.9 billion bond measure will be on the ballot across New York State in November...

The New York Times July 18, 2005
The Pataki administration plans to announce today that it has selected a development team to transform the general post office in Midtown Manhattan into a dramatic new
$930 million transit hub...

New York Daily News July 17, 2005
N.Y. icon Ed Koch longs for political candidates who are titans

New York Daily News July 16, 2005
Council Speaker Gifford Miller came under fire yesterday for his belated admission that his budget-related
mailings cost $1.6 million...

New York Daily News July 15, 2005
Three more unions threw their support behind Mayor Bloomberg at a raucous labor rally...

New York Newsday July 15, 2005
Glaring accounting gaffes are suddenly creating big embarrassments for two Democratic mayoral candidates...

New York Post July 15, 2005
Three construction unions endorsed Republican Mayor Bloomberg yesterday during a raucous rally — and blasted his would-be Democratic rivals for opposing the
defeated West Side stadium...

New York Daily News July 14, 2005
Neighborhood activists rallied last night against an upper West Side skyscraper plan from Extell Development - the company that won praise for countering Bruce Ratner's Nets arena...

New York Daily News July 14, 2005
A four-member Albany panel approved an MTA capital plan last night that leaves the timing of three major expansion projects, including the Second Ave. subway, in doubt...

New York Times July 14, 2005
The chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee believes the United States has a much better chance of bringing the Summer Olympics to America in 2016...

New York Daily News July 13, 2005
Don't expect Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, head of New York's failed 2012 Olympic bid, to be carrying the torch for the 2016...

The New York Times July 13, 2005
It should be familiar ground for Democrats, defending the little guy against big-money interests, but on the question of whether a string of modest waterfront homes in New London...

Get a New Name, and Which Way are We Going?
July 13, 2005

New York Post July 12, 2005
New York City is expected to welcome a record number of tourists this summer...

The New York Times July 11, 2005
Mr. Bloomberg was asked how bad a loss would be for him, personally, an hour before London was chosen over New York...

The New York Times July 11, 2005
While public attention was focused on the city's ill-fated plan to build a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan over the past two years, the Bloomberg administration quietly
labored over projects...

The New York Times Letters to the Editor July 10, 2005

The New York Times July 10, 2005
Disappearing are the hallowed names of our sports stadiums - Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, the Polo Grounds,
Sportsman's Park...

New York Daily News July 10, 2005
A solid majority of New Yorkers think the city should go back to the starting line and bid for the 2016 Olympics...

New York Daily News July 10, 2005
Dennis Hamill Column
Thank Zeus we're not getting the Olympics...

The New York Times July 9, 2005
The International Olympic Committee voted yesterday in Singapore to drop baseball and softball
from the Summer Games starting in 2012...

The New York Times July 9, 2005
U.S. Dominance Caused Softball's Olympic Demise

From the Smith-Corona of our Wise Old Egg...
July 9, 2005

New York Post July 9, 2005
The cost of New York's failed bid for the 2012 Olympics was $50 million, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday...

The New York Times Editorial July 8, 2005

The New York Times July 8, 2005
WHILE vacationing last week in Quebec, I read an editorial in The Montreal Gazette that crystallized for me the fatal flaw in New York City's attempt to win the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The bid was essentially bungled by an inability to appreciate the mass-appeal value of a good burger...

New York Daily News July 8, 2005
Confetti littered Trafalgar Square yesterday morning, a day after revelers waving Union Jacks dove into the fountain behind Lord Nelson's statue to celebrate London's Olympic triumph...

New York Post July 8, 2005
John Mara, the Giants executive vice president and driving force behind the construction of a proposed 80,000-seat stadium, said this week that he intends to speak with the Jets "very soon" about forming a partnership...

New York Newsday July 8, 2005
Londoners still rejoicing over Wednesday's landing of the 2012 Summer Olympics thought they would awake to a new era for their city yesterday, and in a horrific way, on a day that had awful resonance for New Yorkers...

The New York Times July 7, 2005
New York's failed plans for a West Side stadium severely hampered its quest to be host of the 2012 Summer Games...

The New York Times July 7, 2005
He came here predicting outright victory, but after his hopes of winning the Olympics for New York collapsed...

New York Post Letters Re: NY's failed Olympic Bid

New York Daily News July 7, 2005
Filip Bondy Column

New York Daily News July 7, 2005
Mike Lupica Column
At least we will never again have to hear about how Dollar-a-Year Dan Doctoroff, the deputy mayor of New York City who should start moving toward the door now,
sat at the Meadowlands in 1994...

New York Daily News July 7, 2005
Juan Gonzalez Column

New York Post July 7, 2005
In the end, it had nothing to do with the stadium fiasco...

The New York Times July 7, 2005
Richard Sandomir Column

The New York Times July 7, 2005
Judith Miller Jailed

New York Daily News July 7, 2005
NYC2016? Not so fast...

New York Daily News July 7, 2005
New York missed the gold in its bid to land the 2012 Olympics, but the city did get a few big consolation prizes...

The New York Times July 6, 2005
Despite a whirlwind three-week effort to pump life back into their Olympic bid, and an impressive final presentation to the International Olympic Committee, New York's Olympic dream fell short today...

New York Daily News July 6, 2005
NYC eliminated in second round of Olympic voting

The New York Times July 6, 2005
William C Rhoden Column
(Written before IOC Vote)
THE race is finally over...

New York Newsday July 6, 2005
As the site for the proposed Nets arena in Brooklyn goes to bid Wednesday, the favored developer's blueprints show a new facade for a series of skyscrapers...

The New York Times July 6, 2005

...Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was greeted like a rock star as she made her way around this Asian island on Tuesday promoting New York for the 2012 Summer Games...

New York Daily News July 5, 2005
With one day left before the International Olympic Committee picks the 2012 host city, Sen. Hillary Clinton...

The New York Times July 5, 2005
The massive building plan surrounding a new Nets arena east of Downtown Brooklyn will include a ridge of a half-dozen skyscrapers as high as 60 stories sweeping
down Atlantic Avenue...

Real Estate, Ratner, and the New God in Town July 5, 2005

The New York Times July 5, 2005
A Fawning Review of Ratnerland

The New York Times July 5, 2005
Throughout the final 48 hours, New York's Olympic supporters were unable to slow down their frenetic push...

New York Post July 4, 2005
New York's bid for the 2012 Games is set to cross a crucial hurdle today in Singapore...

The New York Times July 4, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg arrived here early Sunday for his final push to win the 2012 Summer Games...

New York Newsday July 4, 2005
When the International Olympic Committee meets Wednesday in Singapore to choose a host city for the 2012 Summer Games, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will have both a great deal and surprisingly little riding...

New York Daily News July 4, 2005
Boasting "We are going to win," Mayor Bloomberg began July 4 here touting New York's Olympic bid...

The New York Times July 4, 2005
International Olympic Committee members warily stepped out of elevators, looking both ways for solicitous representatives from the cities bidding to be host for the 2012 Olympics...

The New York Times July 3, 2005
Shea Stadium, Field of Screams

New York Times July 3, 2005
I FIRST saw Shea Stadium the summer it opened, 1964, when the world was still young. My parents were taking me to the
World's Fair...

The New York Times July 3, 2005
...Still a bit dazed from the 18-plus-hour flight that had deposited him here, Doctoroff, the founder of New York's Olympic bid...

The New York Times July 2, 2005
Leaders of the State Legislature rejected the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's proposed five-year capital plan yesterday...

New York Daily News July 2, 2005
Sen. Hillary Clinton will travel to Singapore to help lobby the International Olympic Committee...

New York Post July 2, 2005
Legislative leaders yesterday vetoed a $17.9 billion
MTA capital plan...

New York Daily News July 1, 2005
The city and MTA believe they can go forward with the extension of the No. 7 subway line...

New York Daily News July 1, 2005 Editorial
New Yorkers have been getting a close look at Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver since he killed the West Side stadium...

The New York Times July 1, 2005
In an unusually open and personal display of anger, a handful of City Council members yesterday
accused Speaker Gifford Miller...

New York Newsday June 30, 2005
If the Jets can find the way to build a Manhattan stadium, the MTA property they won is still theirs...

The New York Times June 30, 2005
George Vecsey Column
THERE will be some sad faces in Scotland next Wednesday. Tony Blair, who knows the ups and downs of politics, was contemplating that prospect...

The New York Times June 29, 2005
Michael R. Bloomberg is enjoying the highest approval rating of his term as mayor, receiving more credit for his education policies and drawing increased support from Hispanics, liberals, moderates, and residents of Manhattan,
a New York Times poll has found...

New York Post June 28, 2005
New York's Olympic dream heads into its final lap today as the city's bid boosters pack their bags and head off to Singapore...

New York Daily News June 28, 2005
Developer Bruce Ratner promised free basketball tickets, a day-care center and affordable apartments yesterday...

New York Daily News
Bill Hammond Column
June 28, 2005
Bruno Family Values

Sportas Business Journal June 27, 2005 Andrew Zimbalist

New York Post June 27, 2005

Here's a first look at the city's proposed Olympic Stadium...

The New York Times June 27, 2005
Lacking the high-tech look of the rejected West Side stadium, the design of the new Olympic stadium in Flushing, Queens, was unveiled by NYC2012...

New York Daily News June 27, 2005
NYC2012 officials released yesterday the first drawings of what a new Mets ballpark could look like...

New York Daily News June 27, 2005
...Unfortunately, the Legislature and Gov. Pataki left off the table key reforms that would have significantly enhanced their accountability to the people...

The New York Times Sunday Magazine
Interview with Bruce Ratner
June 26, 2005

New York Daily News June 26, 2005
Vic Ziegel
Never can Shea goodbye...

New York Newsday, June 26, 2005
Standing on the top deck of KeySpan Park, a virtual who's- who of Brooklyn hobnobbed as they watched the minor league Brooklyn Cyclones...

The New York Times June 25, 2005
State lawmakers on Friday passed a plan to intensify oversight of New York's scandal-plagued public authorities...

The New York Times June 24, 2005
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, in one of its most closely watched property rights cases in years, that fostering economic development is an appropriate use of the government's
power of eminent domain...

The New York Times June 24, 2005
Nearly three weeks after the Jets' plan for a Manhattan football stadium died in Albany, an appeals court yesterday upheld the team's deal to buy the development rights
over the West Side railyard...

New York Post June 24, 2005
Joseph Bruno, the Republican leader of the state Senate, co-signed for a $50,000 loan last year to his lobbyist son, Ken, who then gave the money to the powerful politician...

New York Daily News June 24, 2005
The Jets lost miserably at the statehouse, but the team is winning big time at the courthouse...

The New York Times June 23, 2005
...In some ways, it could have been 1923, when the original Yankee Stadium opened, but in another way
it could have been 2009...

New York Post June 23, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg has opened up a double-digit lead over his Democratic rivals — partly because he has put the controversy over the failed West Side stadium behind him,
a new poll showed...

New York Daily News June 23, 2005
Stadiums may have gone from being a curse to a blessing for Mayor Bloomberg...

New York Daily News June 22, 2005
Mayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer opened fire on the city's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games yesterday...

New York Daily News Editorial on Albany June 22, 2005

The New York Times June 22, 2005
New York State's top officials said on Tuesday that they would move to restore the public's shaken confidence in state government by passing laws requiring lobbyists seeking state contracts to disclose their activities and by closing a loophole that allows state workers to evade ethics fines by quitting their jobs...

The New York Times June 21, 2005
Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a Democratic mayoral candidate, accused Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday of having lied to New Yorkers about his original plan for an Olympic stadium...

The New York Times June 21, 2005
With the collapse of the stadium project in Manhattan, United States Senator Charles Schumer called yesterday for New York City to move ahead...

New York Daily News June 21, 2005
Sen. Chuck Schumer urged state and city officials yesterday to continue to "think big" about the far West Side...

New York Newsday June 21, 2005
The announcement of plans to construct new homes for the city's two major-league teams highlights a widely held view...

New York Daily News June 20, 2005
The press conference to unveil the new Yankee Stadium last week was a political lovefest, with elected officials gushing over one another. Yet moments before, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller and Mayor Bloomberg's chief of staff
talked some serious trash...

New York Daily News Editorial June 20, 2005

The New York Times June 20, 2005
The Dolans, one of New York's most powerful and fractious families, moved yesterday to buy out the public shareholders of their media empire, Cablevision Systems...

New York Post June 19, 2005
In Woody Johnson's first public remarks since the West Side stadium deal was spiked by Albany legislators, the Jets' owner called a touchdown in Queens not out of bounds...

New York Post June 19, 2005
The Willets Point section of Queens, awaiting a makeover through Mayor Bloomberg's new Olympics plan and local renovation efforts, is a "hell hole" of environmental problems that will cost millions to clean...

The New York Times June 19, 2005
...But a review of the city's tentative agreements with the Yankees and the Mets shows that substantial taxpayer subsidies are built into the construction deals with the two teams,
along with other costs...

The New York Times June 19, 2005
(You won't believe what the Times's Design Critic
writes on Father's Day)
MOST stadiums are hard to love. Not even the most beautiful are likely to contribute much...

New York Daily News June 18, 2005
New York's Olympic committee presented the city's Plan B for an Olympic Stadium in Queens during a conference in Africa...

The New York Times June 18, 2005
When the organizers of New York's 2012 Olympic bid were forced to reimagine their stadium, they moved it to a new borough and cut its lifespan...

New York Daily News Editorial June 17, 2005

New York Times June 17, 2005
Last May, when the City Council speaker, Gifford Miller, a Democratic mayoral candidate, wanted to contrast the Bloomberg administration's support for a West Side stadium...

New York Times June 17, 2005 Clyde Haberman

New York Daily News June 17, 2005
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - who antagonized city and state officials by blocking the West Side stadium - may still get a package of goodies...

New York Times June 17, 2005
The international track and field federation, the I.A.A.F., has given NYC2012's plan for an Olympic stadium in Queens its first major endorsement...

The New Yankee Stadium,

in Pictures

The New York Times June 16, 2005
The Yankees unveiled their design for a new ballpark yesterday with a look that would be recognized by Babe Ruth
or Joe DiMaggio...

New York Post June 16, 2005
The Yankees unveiled plans for their dazzling new ballpark yesterday, vowing to foot the $800 million price tag...

New York Newsday June 16, 2005
Babe Ruth got a short right-field porch in the
original Yankee Stadium...

The New York Times June 15, 2005
In the confidential files of at least two Democratic mayoral campaigns, aides have compiled a series of derogatory remarks by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg about building a stadium in Queens...

The New York Times June 15, 2005
Billy Payne recalls sketching out his plan to turn Atlanta's Olympic stadium into a ballpark for the Braves on a napkin at lunch one day in 1987...

New York Post June 15, 2005
The House That George Builds will be a cathedral to the city's winningest sports franchise...

New York Daily News June 15, 2005
A new Shea Stadium may be part of a larger transformation in Queens...

New York Daily News June 15. 2005
After ceding the stadium spotlight to the Jets and Mets, the Bronx Bombers will unveil plans today for a new
$800 million ballpark...

The New York Times June 15, 2005
For the second time in a week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will unveil plans today for a new baseball stadium...

New York Daily News June 15, 2005
Michael Goodwin
And they all will live happily ever after. The Mets get a new stadium, Mayor Mike gets to cut some ribbons in Queens and the Olympic face is saved. Then there's Ground Zero...

Newark Star-Ledger June 14, 2005
With New York City reaching a deal with the Mets for a new ballpark in Queens that will morph into an Olympic Stadium if the city lands the 2012 Olympics, the Jets now appear even more likely to call the Meadowlands home...

The New York Times June 14, 2005
When no one else wanted power plants, Astoria said yes, and it now provides 60 percent of the city's energy. When Manhattan banned graveyards, Queens became...

New York Times June 14, 2005
The Stadium Numbers, as The Times Sees It

New York Daily News June 14, 2005
The city's bid for the 2012 Olympics not only has new life...

New York Daily News June 14, 2005
Just east of Shea Stadium's parking lots sits the
Iron Triangle, a wild tangle...

New York Times June 14, 2005
The city and the state may not be funneling $600 million into a new Mets stadium, the amount they promised to the Jets on the West Side, but there is still plenty of taxpayer expense...

New York Post June 14, 2005
With a new stadium plan in hand, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday he's undertaking a weekend trip to Africa...

The New York Times June 14, 2005
As long as the proposed Olympic stadium in Queens meets the technical requirements for the events that would be held there, NYC2012 will be permitted to present the plan...

New York Newsday June 14, 2005
If it fails, as many expect, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 11th-hour, Queens-based emergency plan to win the 2012 Olympics could be reworked into a proposal to lure the 2016 games...

New York Post June 14, 2005 Editorial

New York Newsday Editorial June 14, 2005

The New York Times Editorial June 14, 2005

New York Daily News Editorial June 14, 2005

New York Sun June 13, 2005
A senior lawyer at Proskauer Rose, Lou Solomon, 49, is head of litigation for the firm's international practice group and co-head of its antitrust and trade regulation group. Last week he spoke with The New York Sun's Julie Satow...

Newark Star-Ledger June 13, 2005 Steve Politi

The New York Times June 13, 2005
For the Mets, there has rarely been a sense of urgency to get their new ballpark built...

The New York Times June 13, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's announcement last night that the city would propose playing host to the 2012 Olympics at a new stadium in Queens went against almost everything he had said...

The New York Times
The new stadium in map and pictures

June 13, 2005

New York Post June 13, 2005
The Mets could get an amazin' new multimillion dollar home in Queens under the city's desperate Plan B...

New York Daily News June 13, 2005
It's a whole new ballgame for the Mets, Yankees - and the city's Olympic bid...

New York Daily News Mike Lupica Column
(Bitter, of course)
June 13, 2005

The New York Times June 13, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg committed last night to help the Mets build a stadium that could be converted into the centerpiece for the 2012 Olympics...

New York Newsday June 12, 2005
It seems that reports of the West Side's demise
have been greatly exaggerated...

New York Times June 12, 2005
As word spread yesterday of negotiations to revive New York City's Olympic bid by building a stadium in Queens, some long-time advocates of such a move were faced with a conundrum...

New York Daily News June 12, 2005
With less than a month to go in the high-stakes competition for the 2012 Olympic Games, New York's chances of landing the world's most prestigious sporting event are dwindling...

The New York Times June 12, 2005
Despite Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's bitter lament this week that the demise of his long-sought stadium project will delay development of the West Side, the neighborhood seems hotter...

New York Newsday June 12, 2005
While Mayor Michael Bloomberg is continuing his drive for a stadium to house the 2012 Olympics, and while MTA chairman Peter Kalikow says he still would sell the Hudson Rail Yards to the New York Jets, business owners and residents are girding to press...

New York Newsday Editorial June 12, 2005

The New York Times June 11, 2005 Roger Kahn

New York Newsday June 12, 2005
In a last-ditch effort to reinstate an Olympic bid that all but crumbled last week, the city on Monday may unveil as its centerpiece a proposal for a new stadium in Queens...

The New York Times June 12, 2005
How New York Can Get It's Groove Back

New York Daily News Editorial June 12, 2005
The Daily News turned over rocks in Albany, and guess what was squirming underneath: friends, business partners and cronies...

New York Daily News June 12, 2005
Just before New York's Olympic bid flickered back to life, thanks to a possible "Plan B," the NYC2012 crew had the audacity to say that New York - not New York's Olympic planners - looked bad...

New York Daily News June 11, 2005
The Jets haven't given up the fight for a West Side stadium, but Mayor Bloomberg apparently has...

The New York Times June 11, 2005
Leaders of the fractured bid to bring the 2012 Olympics to New York City are re-examining earlier options
for a stadium in Queens...

New York Times June 11, 2005
It's been a difficult week for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. First, he watched the West Side stadium...

New York Post June 11, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg has been hit with a sudden and dramatic reversal of political fortune...

New York Post June 11, 2005
The city is moving full steam ahead to develop the far West Side using other "catalysts" — besides a stadium...

New York Newsday June 11, 2005
Conceding "we didn't make the sale" on the stadium project, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that tax breaks and other development incentives may be the way to develop
the far West Side...

New York Newsday June 11, 2005
Poll: stadium hurts, Bloomberg, Ferrer in dead heat...

New York Post June 11, 2005
Embarrassed Democrats yesterday canceled an important fund-raising event in the city after union leaders threatened to show up and brand Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver a "rat" for killing the West Side stadium...

New York Newsday June 10, 2005
New York City's Olympic bid, badly wounded when its West Side stadium plan was rejected, could be resubmitted
with last-minute adjustments...

New York Sun June 10, 2005
In a breathtaking show of bureaucratic arrogance, possible corruption, and Albany incompetence, New York's so-called civic leaders dealt a probable deathblow...

New York Times June 10, 2005
The International Olympic Committee will consider allowing New York to alter its Olympic bid...

New York Daily News June 10, 2005
The International Olympic Committee will allow New York to submit a Plan B...

The New York Times June 10, 2005
...For them, there would be Phantom New York,
the city that never got built...

New York Times June 10, 2005
One week ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's expensive new campaign machine was humming along...

New York Daily News June 10, 2005
Twice yesterday, reporters tried to probe Mayor Bloomberg on his "mood" after a week that saw...

The New York Times June 10, 2005
In many ways, the process of creating the new Yankees ballpark will be the antithesis of the Jets' project...

New York Post June 10, 2005
MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow said yesterday that the agency will likely look for new developers of the West Side rail yard if the Jets can't live up to their deal to build a stadium...

New York Daily News June 10, 2005
The Jets aren't the only ones who are still holding out hope for a West Side stadium. Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said yesterday that the agency still has every intention of awarding its West Side railyards to the Jets...

The New York Times June 9, 2005
NYC2012 officials maintained their public silence yesterday about their plans for the Olympic bid, spending the day talking to board members and contributors...

The New York Times June 9, 2005
Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey is again pushing to ensure a prominent role for sports at New Jersey's sports complex...

The New York Times June 9, 2005
As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan for a Far West Side stadium was going down to defeat this spring, another major plan for a sports arena was quietly coming to fruition in Brooklyn...

New York Daily News June 9, 2005
New York's Olympic officials are exploring several options to salvage the city's bid for the 2012 Games, including proposing an alternate site for the Olympic stadium...

New York Daily News Letters to the Editor June 9, 2005

New York Post June 9, 2005
Refusing to give up on plans to build a West Side stadium, the Jets yesterday said they want to go ahead with the $250 million purchase of the MTA rail yard...

The New York Times June 9, 2005 Bob Herbert Column
I'm guessing that right about now Mike Bloomberg views Sheldon Silver about as benignly as a cat views a mouse...

The Future at WestSideStadium.org

New York Post June 8, 2005
A GUY like me who covers real estate — and any New Yorker who cares about the city's future — should be tickled pink by the demise of the West Side stadium...

The New York Times June 8, 2005
About 6 p.m. Monday, James Dolan, the chief executive of Cablevision Systems, the most vehement opponent of the Bloomberg administration's plan to build a stadium for the Jets on the Far West Side, placed a call to his friend
Donald J. Trump...

The New York Times June 8, 2005
Declaring that opponents of a West Side stadium "have let down America," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday...

The New York Times June 8, 2005
One night last December, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg squeezed next to Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the State Assembly, before a large menorah...

New York Daily News June 8, 2005
Michael Goodwin
In fact, the battle over the West Side stadium was such a titanic clash because it involved two competing visions...

New York Post June 8, 2005
The bruising battle over a West Side stadium — fought by an army of lobbyists and a massive media blitz —
ended with a burst of spending...

The New York Times June 8, 2005 Editorial

The New York Times June 8, 2005
In the midst of the demise of the West Side stadium plan Monday, the United States Olympic Committee was already trying to get its message to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg...

The New York Times June 8, 2005
The apparent collapse of the Jets' quest to build a stadium on the Far West Side of Manhattan raises the question of whether they will try to make a deal to be the Giants' partner...

New York Post June 8, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg is shutting off the pipeline of huge campaign contributions to state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno...

New York Newsday June 8, 2005
The apparent demise of the West Side stadium won't just dim the hopes of Manhattan...

New York Newsday June 8, 2005
Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered a terse and impassioned eulogy for the proposed West Side stadium...

New York Daily News June 8, 2005
The Jets began working feverishly yesterday on a new game plan for a West Side stadium...

New York Newsday June 8, 2005
Since Monday's decision by a three-member board in Albany to kill the Jets' proposed West Side stadium...

New York Daily News June 8, 2005
Declaring "We have let down America," Mayor Bloomberg left little hope yesterday that New York's crippled bid for the 2012 Olympics would survive...

New York Daily News June 7, 2005
An obscure state board rejected the proposed $1.9 billion West Side stadium yesterday, dealing a catastrophic blow to the city's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and to the Jets' dream of returning to New York...

New York Times June 7, 2005
New York's bid officials for the 2012 Olympics were left scrambling yesterday as the financial plan for a proposed West Side Stadium was defeated on the same day an International Olympic Committee report noted the lack of a stadium as a concern in the city's bid...

New York Post June 7, 2005
As humiliating defeats go in politics, it would be hard to find one to top the ignominious end to Mayor Bloomberg's
West Side stadium dream...

New York Daily News June 7, 2005
On its face, Mayor Bloomberg's failure to win his beloved West Side stadium - and any real shot at the 2012 Olympics - has to be seen as the biggest loss...

New York Post June 7, 2005
Legislative leaders yesterday killed Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a West Side stadium — with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver claiming the project would have stunted
lower Manhattan redevelopment...

New York Newsday June 7, 2005
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and backers of the city's 2012 Olympics bid suffered a critical defeat Monday as the two leaders of the State Legislature flatly rejected a plan to build a $2.2 billion Jets stadium...

New York Times West Side Stadium Players June 7, 2005

New York Daily News June 7, 2005 Mike Lupica

New York Daily News June 7, 2005 Juan Gonzalez Gloats

New York Times Editorial June 7, 2005

New York Post Editorial June 7, 2005

The New York Times June 7, 2005
The death of the West Side stadium underscores the excruciatingly difficult process that almost every ambitious civic project in New York City faces...

New York Daily News Editorial June 7, 2005

New York Post June 7, 2005
John Podhoretz Column
This morning, New Yorkers are
waking up in the city where nothing ever gets done...

The New York Times June 7, 2005
Selena Roberts
IN Paris, it's a resplendent summer evening in 2012...
In Pottersville, it's another humid day on Manhattan's West Side as sodden shoppers exit the gray cinderblock facade of a Super Wal-Mart built over the railroad yards despite public protests...

The New York Times June 7, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's nearly four-year quest to build a Manhattan football stadium that could spark the redevelopment of the West Side and lure the Olympic Games to New York was defeated yesterday...

New York Newsday (AP) June 6, 2005
New York City is "neck in neck" in its race against top-rated Paris for the 2012 Summer Games, local boosters insisted Monday...

New York Times June 6, 2005
An International Olympic Committee report released today on the five finalists for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games had high praise for Paris and London, and more tempered praise for New York City's bid, which has been thrown into doubt...

IOC Preliminary Report on NYC2012

New York Newsday June 6, 2005
Two key Albany lawmakers said today that they would vote against state funding for a proposed Jets stadium on Manhattan's West Side, further jeopardizing the city's bid for the
2012 summer Olympics...

NYC2012 doesn't need a doctor, it needs a priest!
Silver and Bruno garrot NYC2012

New York Post June 6, 2005
With the vote on state approval of a West Side stadium set for this afternoon, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was no closer...

New York Daily News June 6, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg huddled twice with a key lawmaker but could not close a deal for a stadium...

New York Newsday June 6, 2005
Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent most of Sunday fruitlessly prodding Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to commit to a yes vote on the West Side stadium...

The New York Times June 6, 2005
Rarely have Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spent so much time together...

New York Newsday Editorial June 6, 2005

New York Daily News June 5, 2005
Michael Goodwin
Don't be fooled by the calendar. It says June, but in political time, it's starting to feel like November for the Democrats...

New York Daily News June 5, 2005
In Mayor Bloomberg's private City Hall office, there's a pillow on his couch with the inscription, "Do not start with me..."

New York Daily News June 5, 2005
You want to know the latest con, maybe the last he needs, from Michael Bloomberg on this stadium deal...

New York Post June 5, 2005
Officials are preparing to go into overtime on the Jets'
West Side stadium today...

New York Post June 5, 2005
The Madison Square Garden-led campaign to halt construction of the West Side stadium project hit a snag when union workers refused to hang a sign opposing the controversial plan...

New York Times June 5, 2005
City Council Speaker Gifford Miller announced his support yesterday for a $3.5 billion arena...

New York Daily News June 4, 2005
Whistle blown: Timeout on the West Side...

The New York Times June 4, 2005
Supporters of a proposed West Side stadium postponed a crucial vote on its construction on Friday, shortly after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver signaled his intention to vote against it. The delay threw the stadium's fate back onto
Albany's murky trading floor...

The New York Times June 4, 2005
When New York's political leaders want something, want it badly, to get it they often have to persuade, coerce or lure the state's enigmatic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, into a deal...

New York Newsday June 4, 2005
The political quarrel that led Friday to the third delay of a vote on the proposed $2.2 billion West Side stadium has turned from a debate over its merits to horse-trading that has
little to do with the stadium itself...

New York Post June 4, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday the city is
"close on our negotiations"
to hammering out a deal on the stadium by Monday...

New York Daily News Editorial June 4, 2005
We admit to being deeply distressed that the vote on building a West Side stadium and convention center was postponed yesterday, but we also harbor hope that
Monday the sun will shine...

The New York Times June 4, 2005
Dave Anderson Column
...I'm against the Jets stadium on its merits...

New York Daily News June 4, 2005
City Council Speaker Gifford Miller - a vocal foe of the Jets' proposed West Side stadium - is coming out in favor today of developer Bruce Ratner's $3.5 billion Nets arena...

New York Times June 3, 2005
Hours before a vote on the embattled plan for a West Side stadium was set to take place, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced today that it had once again been postponed...

The New York Times June 3, 2005
The fates of the 2012 Olympics and the proposed West Side stadium have become so intertwined that it sometimes seems as if all the Summer Games would be played at the railyards...

New York Newsday June 3, 2005
The bid to build the West Side stadium cleared several legal challenges Thursday but nonetheless still faces an unknown future...

New York Daily News June 3, 2005
Mike (God is on my side!) Lupica
Mayor Michael Bloomberg could have developed the Hudson Railyards in all kinds of ways...

The New York Times Editorial June 3, 2005

New York Post June 3, 2005 Editorial

New York Daily News June 3, 2005 Editorial

New York Daily News June 3, 2005
On the eve of a key vote by a state panel, Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno offered a compromise...

New York Post June 3, 2005
A top aide to Gov. Pa taki called the escalating battle over the West Side stadium "a high-stakes game of chicken" — and state Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday added...

New York Post June 3, 2005
State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said yesterday he will approve a West Side stadium only if the
city wins its bid next month...

New York Daily News June 3, 2005

It's West Side gridlock - Albany-style...The Public Authorities Control Board - whose unanimous approval is needed for the stadium to go forward - is scheduled to take up the matter at 2 p.m. today...

The New York Times June 3, 2005
A day before the vote that could determine the fate of the proposed West Side stadium, supporters of the project won an important court ruling yesterday...

New York Daily News June 2, 2005
New York's Olympic officials are worried about losing the city's high-stakes bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to Albany foot-dragging - in what would be
a humiliating eleventh-hour fumble...

New York Post June 2, 2005
Days before the crucial vote on the proposed West Side stadium, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno
yesterday raised a new issue...

The New York Times June 2, 2005
Legislative leaders continued to express strong doubts yesterday about a proposal to allow the Jets to build
a stadium on the West Side...

New York Daily News June 2, 2005
It's showdown time in the titanic battle over Mayor Bloomberg's plans for a West Side stadium for the Jets...

New York Newsday June 2, 2005
With both a critical court ruling and funding vote on the proposed West Side stadium expected to finally come this week, the next 48 hours could make or break...

New York Daily News June 1, 2005
Declaring it would be "tragic" if America's Olympic bid was "damaged" by Albany gridlock, the nation's representatives on the International Olympic Committee
urged the state's top lawmakers...

New York Daily News June 1, 2005
Only in New York would an obscure, unaccountable agency such as the Public Authorities Control Board get to decide an issue as big and controversial as the West Side stadium...

New York Newsday June 1, 2005
Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday unveiled a $150-million plan to create a 2-mile ribbon of park along the East River...

New York Post June 1, 2005
The three U.S. members of the International Olympic Committee warned the leaders of the state Legislature yesterday to approve the West Side Stadium by the end of the week...

New York Daily News
Michael Goodwin June 1, 2005
Think of it as the old board game
Clue with an oddball list of suspects...

New York Daily News June 1, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg uncorked long-awaited plans to fix up lower Manhattan's East River waterfront yesterday - his third voter-friendly parks project in as many weeks...

The New York Times June 1, 2005
(Judith Miller Walks Amongst Us!)
The Jets have been meeting with the New York Police Department to discuss security issues related to the team's proposal to build an 18-story, glass-walled football stadium...

New York Post May 31, 2005
Facing a crucial vote this week on the proposed West Side stadium, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he's optimistic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will see the benefits of the project...

New York Times May 31, 2005
For Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, it was a day to mix patriotic and political fervor. He sounded themes of bravery and freedom...

New York Daily News May 30, 2005
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver suggested yesterday he could flout Gov. Pataki's demand for a vote on the
proposed West Side stadium...

The New York Times May 30, 2005
Joyce Purnick
LET'S say - purely for argument's sake - that the powers in Albany approve the West Side stadium...

New York Daily News May 29, 2005
Cablevision has launched a new TV ad campaign...

New York Daily News May 29, 2005
Michael Goodwin
What does Shelly want?

New York Daily News May 28, 2005
Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno privately told union leaders he intended to support the proposed West Side stadium...

New York Post May 28, 2005
D-Day for the West Side stadium is next Friday, Mayor Bloomberg revealed yesterday...

New York Newsday May 28, 2005
Saying he expects a crucial vote next week on the proposed West Side stadium, Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday stepped up his courting of key players...

New York Post May 27, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg continued his blatant courtship of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday...

New York Newsday May 27, 2005
After making the latest in a series of lower Manhattan improvement announcements, Mayor Michael Bloomberg Thursday insisted there is no linkage...

The New York Times May 27, 2005
ABOUT 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, I decided to take my own Olympics poll...

New York Post May 27, 2005
The White House and President Bush's allies are working aggressively behind the scenes to win approval of the Jets' stadium on the West Side, as a crucial deadline approaches...

The New York Times May 27, 2005
Yesterday, all the ingredients were there: heat from the West Side stadium drama, anticipation of a crucial, and twice-delayed, vote next week, and growing intrigue surrounding the intentions of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver...

New York Daily News May 27, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg broke ground yesterday on a residential-retail development in lower Manhattan, a project that some view as part of an aggressive effort to win Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's support for the West Side stadium...

New York Daily News May 27, 2005
While Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno continues to withhold support for the proposed West Side stadium, his representative on the state board that will determine
the project's fate is a staunch backer...

New York Newsday Brian Lehrer Op-Ed

New York Daily News May 26, 2005
Lobbyists collected more than $33 million in fees last year...(Plus interview with Gifford Miller)

New York Post May 26, 2005
Gov. Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg yesterday unveiled $830 million in downtown development goodies — including some new parks — as they try to convince
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver...

New York Daily News May 26, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki unveiled a plan yesterday to spend $820 million on fixing up lower Manhattan - money aimed at parks, streets, housing, the World Trade Center memorial and, yes, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver...

New York Daily News May 26, 2005
A majority of the City Council sent the state's top lawmakers a letter yesterday urging approval of the
proposed West Side stadium...

New York Times May 26, 2005
Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced $800 million worth of projects for Lower Manhattan yesterday...

New York Times May 25, 2005
The Jets' bid to play host to the 2010 Super Bowl
may remain in peril...

New York Daily News May 25, 2005
Mark Twain once famously noted that reports of his death were premature, and it's not yet time to perform last rites for the West Side stadium, either. But things are looking so
bad for the project...

New York Daily News Editorial May 25, 2005
New York has one shot, and only one shot, to win the 2012 Olympic Games, and that is to commit now to allowing the Jets to build a stadium on Manhattan's West Side...

Auction ends, train yards have a new name!

The New York Times May 24, 2005
For the second time in a week, Gov. George E. Pataki yesterday agreed to delay a critical vote on a proposed $2.2 billion stadium in Manhattan...

New York Times Editorial May 24, 2005

New York Newsday May 24, 2005
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has yanked the West Side stadium off this Friday's agenda of the Public Control Board and requested that the mega-project be shelved until June 2...

New York Daily News May 24, 2005 Juan Gonzalez

New York Daily News May 24, 2005
Declaring New York has a "decent" chance of winning the 2012 Olympic Games, Mayor Bloomberg chided top state officials yesterday...

New York Newsday May 23, 2005
Without even a shovel in the ground, the fight over a West Side stadium is already bringing an economic boon - for some perennial players...

New York Post May 23, 2005
General Eliot Spitzer, the Democratic guber natorial hopeful who has taken on controversial issues...

New York Post May 23, 2005
State Comptroller Alan Hevesi yesterday said he'd rather see a new Jets stadium in Queens...

New York Post May 23, 2005
The lobbyist-son of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was accused last year by his ex-wife of
"intimidating" her with a handgun...

New York Daily News May 23, 2005
State controller Alan Hevesi declared yesterday he has little confidence that New York will win its bid for the
2012 Olympic Games...

New York Daily News May 22, 2005 Mike Lupica

New York Daily News May 22, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg justified his sky-is-the-limit campaign spending in 2001...

New York Post May 21, 2005
Insisting he wasn't engaged in horse-trading for the West Side stadium, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday
laid out a lengthy list...

New York Daily News Editorial May 21, 2005

New York Daily News May 21, 2005
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Speaker left no doubt
yesterday about what he wants...

New York Daily News May 21, 2005
Dismissing New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics as a "long shot," Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver defiantly declared...

New York Times May 21, 2005
Sheldon Silver, speaker of the State Assembly, called yesterday for a "Marshall Plan" to revitalize Lower Manhattan...

The New York Times May 21, 2005 Op-Ed
Talk about false advertising.
The Public Authorities Control Board...

New York Post Editorial May 21, 2005
KILLING THE OLYMPICS

The New York Times May 20, 2005
Richard Sandomir
There are plans aplenty to build new stadiums and arenas in the New York region, but will a single one ever be built?

New York Post May 20, 2005
The dispute over the proposed
West Side stadium escalated yesterday...

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New York Newsday May 20, 2005
The city's Hudson Yards rezoning plan violates the federal Clean Air Act by undoing limitations on parking meant to combat traffic and air pollution, a new lawsuit alleges...

The New York Times May 20, 2005
With their plan to build a $2.2 billion stadium on the Far West Side of Manhattan stalled in Albany, the Jets are putting together a backup plan...

New York Daily News May 20, 2005
...a lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court charges...

New York Daily News May 20, 2005
New York's top lawmakers have been warned: Mess around with the West Side Stadium and the Olympics are lost...

New York Newsday May 19, 2005
The financial elements that prompted a delay of a final vote on the proposed West Side stadium are many of the same issues that have dogged the Jets' project since
city and state officials unveiled it...

New York Times May 19, 2005
Bob Herbert Column
Trust me, it's going to be a boondoggle of breathtaking proportions...

New York Times May 19, 2005
After plans to win Albany's approval for a West Side stadium were stymied by a little-known state board on Tuesday, Gov. George E. Pataki took the unusual step
yesterday of calling a special meeting...

New York Daily News May 19, 2005
As Mayor Bloomberg urged the state's two top lawmakers to get behind a West Side stadium, Gov. Pataki set
next Wednesday as the new date...

New York Post May 19, 2005
While the Jets battle for a West Side stadium, team officials are close to signing a backup plan to play in a new stadium
in New Jersey until 2018...

New York Post May 18, 2005
Today's much-anticipated vote on $300 million in state financing for a West Side stadium will be delayed at least a week — after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver raised
concerns about the project's security...

New York Newsday May 18, 2005
After months of expectation, advertising wars, celebrity speeches and rallies, state lawmakers agreed yesterday to delay a vote...

The New York Times May 18, 2005
United States Representative Anthony D. Weiner, seeking to bolster his mayoral campaign, has hired a Democratic strategist who is credited with helping engineer John Kerry's come-from-behind victory in the Iowa...

New York Post Editorial
May 18, 2005- Wouldn't it be nice if once, just once, New York's political leaders could do right by New Yorkers — and not ask, "What's in it for us?"

The New York Times Editorial
May 18, 2005
(With our commentary)

The New York Times May 18, 2005
Less than 24 hours before a crucial vote on the $2.2 billion stadium proposed for the West Side of Manhattan, Gov. George E. Pataki and two legislative leaders agreed last night that the matter would be postponed...

New York Daily News May 18, 2005
Gov. Pataki reluctantly agreed last night to postpone a vote today on the proposed West Side stadium after state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno insisted...

Albany Rally to Support the NYSCC

In Pictures
May 17, 2005

New York Post May 17, 2005
Gov. Pataki yesterday vowed to go ahead with tomorrow's planned vote on $300 million in state financing for the controversial West Side stadium, despite legislative calls for delay...

New York Daily News May 17, 2005
With the fate of New York's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics possibly in the balance, Gov. Pataki's aides have asked
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver...

The New York Times May 16, 2005
David N. Dinkins left office stunned and frustrated, secure in history as the city's first black mayor but
narrowly defeated for a second term...

The New York Times May 16, 2005
NEW YORKERS are now assured by their governor that the Freedom Tower is back on track...

New York Newsday May 16, 2005
The scrum for the stadium is moving to Albany...

New York Daily News May 15, 2005
About 2 turned out yesterday to protest the proposed West Side football stadium...

New York Newsday May 15, 2005
Under clear and sunny skies, more than 300 people gathere in McCaffrey Playground in Hells Kitchen protesting the building of the West Side Stadium...

New York Daily News May 15, 2005
Mike Lupica
Shooting From the Drip

New York News Watch for Saturday, May 14
The Ersatz Opposition

New York Post Editorial May 14, 2005

The New York Times May 13, 2005
Never have the fates of the city's two biggest developments - a proposed $2.2 billion football stadium on the West Side and the downtown rebuilding effort - been more intertwined
than they are today...

New York Daily News May 13, 2005
Cablevision hurled another lawsuit at the
proposed West Side stadium yesterday...

The New York Times May 12, 2005
The City Council overwhelmingly approved plans yesterday to rezone 175 waterfront blocks...

New York Daily News May 12, 2005
One Tune Juan Gonzalez

New York Daily News May 12, 2005
The City Council voted yesterday to sack Mayor Bloomberg's plan to use $300 million in public funds
for the West Side stadium...

New York Newsday May 12, 2005
With more than a third of Democrats in the state Assembly supporting the Jets' proposal for a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan, the party's top leader, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is under mounting pressure...

New York Post May 11, 2005
WITH the decision to redesign the Freedom Tower, questions have inevitably been raised about whether the mayor and his administration have been distracted from downtown development by the pursuit of the Olympics and the West Side stadium...

The New York Times May 11, 2005
As the New York Jets make a last-minute push for state support for a stadium on Manhattan's West Side, there are signs the project is hitting some significant bumps here...

New York Daily News May 11, 2005
The state's top Democrat said yesterday the only reason why the West Side stadium proposal has any life at all
is that Mayor Bloomberg...

New York Newsday May 11, 2005
Negotiations over the proposed West Side stadium revved into a higher gear Tuesday as the Jets sent the
Rev. Al Sharpton to the Capitol...

New York 1 Streaming RealPlayer Video Interview-
Richard Breslaw, WestSideStadium.org Member

New York Newsday May 10, 2005
If you want to persuade lawmakers to give hundreds of millions of dollars to a proposed football stadium perhaps you do as the Jets did Monday: send "Broadway" Joe Namath...

New York Post May 10, 2005
When we urged Gov. Pataki last week to exercise stronger leadership regarding Ground Zero reconstruction, we didn't have extortion in mind...

New York Daily News May 10, 2005

Step aside, armchair quarterbacks. There's a new lobbyist in town: Broadway Joe Namath...

New York Newsday May 10, 2005
Dennis Duggan Column
From O'Farrell's, a pub where fake windows in the dining room were covered with lace curtains, to the table outside the Little Pie Co...

New York Post May 9, 2005 Letter from Charles Rangel

New York Post May 9, 2005
AIDES to Gov. Pataki have privately told Bloomberg administration officials to get the NYPD to drop its resistance to construction of a Freedom Tower at Ground Zero — or risk losing the state's help with a West Side stadium...

New York Magazine May 9, 2005
In the battle for the West Side stadium, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver holds all the cards...

The New York Times May 8, 2005
Bloggers like to demonize the MSM (that's Mainstream Media), but it is increasingly hard to think of the largest news blogs as being outside the mainstream...

The New York Times May 8, 2005 Editorial

The New York Times May 7, 2005
For many foes of a plan to build a Jets stadium and convention center on the far West Side of Manhattan, the biggest concern is how such a megastructure would affect the neighborhood and the borough as a whole...

New York Daily News May 7, 2005
Small business owners and West Side residents had a message to send to politicians Friday: Give us a yes or no
on the Jets stadium project...

New York Newsday May 6, 2005
The Jets could be forced to wait a month to finalize its deal with the MTA...

The New York Times May 6, 2005
BIG mistake to assume that the beach towel-size map spread on a table in Peter S. Kalikow's Midtown office is a state-of-the-art chart of New York City's
subway, bus and rail systems...

The New York Times May 6, 2005
Fernando Ferrer, a Democratic candidate for mayor, was endorsed by a cross section of Brooklyn politicians yesterday, while another candidate, C. Virginia Fields, assailed the mayor...

The New York Times May 6, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been pilloried by critics who say his relentless push for a Jets stadium on the West Side of Manhattan has distracted him...

New York Daily News May 6, 2005
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed yesterday to wait until June 2 before sealing its West Side railyards deal...

New York Post May 5, 2005
Poll Numbers
(and what they say to us)

New York Newsday May 5, 2005 Quinnipiac Poll

The time has come to act,
Stadium Yes or Stadium No,
and let's move on.
You can help.

New York Daily News May 4, 2005
Stop complaining and build it! That was Sen. Chuck Schumer's stern advice yesterday on Ground Zero's Freedom Tower...

New York Daily News May 4, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg got a big boost yesterday
from across party lines: Sen. Chuck Schumer...

New York Newsday May 4, 2005
The effort to raise a 1,776-foot Freedom Tower where the World Trade Center once stood is "losing steam," Sen. Charles Schumer told New York business leaders...

New York Post May 4, 2005
Rep. Charles Rangel — the most prominent black elected official to come out in support of the West Side stadium —
has flip-flopped...

New York Jets May 4, 2005
Jets President Jay Cross warned yesterday that the team would have to consider offers to stay in New Jersey...

New York Post Letters to the Editor May 3, 2005

New York Daily News May 3, 2005
Dear Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum:
Can you spare $250 million?
Love, the MTA...

New York Newsday May 3, 2005
Oral arguments in several stadium-related lawsuits against the MTA are being postponed for scheduling reasons...

New York Daily News May 3, 2005
Column by Juan Gonzalez

New York Daily News May2, 2005
The Jets will launch a major campaign today in a bid to convince key state officials that the proposed $1.9 billion West Side stadium is a jobs touchdown...

The New York Times May 2, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg paid a lengthy visit yesterday to the Christian Cultural Center, a charismatic evangelical church in Brooklyn...

The New York Times May 2, 2005 Editorial

New York Times May 1, 2005
Security concerns outlined last month by the New York Police Department have set off a serious reassessment of
plans for the World Trade Center site...

The New York Times May 1, 2005 George Vecsey
IN the waning hours of their season, the Nets are not going anywhere, except home...

New York Daily News May 1, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg was much more relaxed than normal last week when he was asked about the latest public poll surveying his reelection chances...

New York Daily News May 1, 2005
Where does City Council Speaker Gifford Miller stand on the West Side stadium? The answer
depends on when you asked him...

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New York Post April 30, 2005
Two of Fernando Ferrer's top political aides abruptly quit last night, in a move that spelled new trouble...

The New York Times April 30, 2005
Gymnasts have grown used to sharing their gym with a tepee, left over from an American Indian exhibition, and stretching their remarkably limber legs on metal folding chairs...

New York Newsday April 30, 2005
The mayor's new financing plan for West Side redevelopment uses money that could instead fund pay hikes for city workers, the firefighters' union said Friday...

New York Post April 29, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spent time yesterday golfing at an exclusive Westchester country club...

Harvard Crimson April 28, 2005
Harvard Design School professor Alex Krieger’s widely-reported contract with media giant Cablevision has placed him at the center of a bitter battle over development rights
on Manhattan’s West Side...

New York Post April 29, 2005
THE recent ruminations of Bob Kerrey and William Weld say a lot about the state of New York politics...

New York Newsday April 29, 2005
Until Thursday, City Council member Margarita Lopez was listed on a New York Jets Web site as a backer
of the West Side Stadium...

New York Post April 28, 2005
We want someone new! That's the rallying cry from
nearly half of city Democrats...

New York Daily News April 28, 2005
After watching his lead over Mayor Bloomberg collapse, Democratic front-runner Fernando Ferrer has primary opponent Virginia Fields bearing down on him...

New York Daily News April 27, 2005
A growing number of city lawmakers are starting to cheer for the Jets in the team's bid to build a stadium on the West Side...

New York Post April 27, 2005
City Council leaders said yesterday they have the votes to pass a law blocking Mayor Bloomberg from pumping $300 million into a West Side football stadium — but the city's top lawyer said such a move could be challenged in court...

The New York Times April 27, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg won the endorsement yesterday of the Building and Construction Trades Council
of Greater New York...

New York Post April 27, 2005
Gov. Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno traded barbs yesterday over the propriety of Bruno's lobbyist son getting $4.4 million restored to the state budget on behalf of a client...

New York Newsday April 27, 2005
A showdown may be looming in the City Council over the mayor's plan to divert economic development funds to pay for the $375 million West Side Stadium platform...

New York Newsday April 27, 2005
Bypassing the city's Democratic primary, a construction union coalition yesterday lunged straight to the main event and endorsed Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg
for a second term...

The New York Times April 27, 2005
In debating what the Olympics might deliver to New York, it might be worth recalling the forgotten legacy
of Fishhooks McCarthy...

New York Daily News April 27, 2005
Michael Goodwin Column
Mayor Mike has had a personality transplant...

New York Post April 26, 2005
A coalition of West Side residents, elected officials and a community group slapped the MTA yesterday
with yet another lawsuit...

New York Daily News April 26, 2005
Column by Juan Gonzalez

New York Daily News April 26, 2005
Editorial- Stop Playing Games with the Olympics

New York Daily News April 26, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg is entitled to dip into a multimillion-dollar fund for any pet project...

New York Post Editorial April 26, 2005

The New York Times April 25, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has a golf date planned with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Thursday...

New York Post April 25, 2005
The son of Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno arranged
to have $4.4 million in Medicaid funding restored to
the new state budget — just days after he was
paid $60,000 by a group that gets the funds...

New York Post April 25, 2005
Op-Ed Column by David Yassky

New York Daily News April 24, 2005
In a move that will drive opponents of the West Side stadium batty, the Jets will argue that the team's $250 million bid for the railyards is worth more than Madison Square Garden's
$400 million proposal...

New York Daily News April 24, 2005
Any fan of time travel would have felt right at home at a Manhattan gathering I attended Thursday...

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New York Post April 23, 2005
Cablevision will double its TV ad campaign next week
in a nearly $350,000 blitz...
(With Our Commentary)

The New York Times April 23, 2005
The International Olympic Committee's ethics commission concluded yesterday that NYC2012 broke no rules in its proposal to offer free marketing assistance to international sports federations should it win the right to hold the 2012 Olympics...

The New York Times April 23, 2005
The new Giants Stadium proposed for the Meadowlands was approved on Friday by the board of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority...

The New York Times April 22, 2005
While New Jersey officials are poised to approve a new stadium for the New York Giants, the deal that was struck last week with the team has some lawmakers asking whether
the state is giving up too much...

The New York Times April 22, 2005
A day after the Rev. Al Sharpton said that he would not endorse any of the candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor because none of them had a clear enough message, C. Virginia Fields, one of the candidates, took a gentle potshot at him...

The New York Times April 22, 2005
Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick of Manhattan has asked the International Olympic Committee to release certain documents in an effort to clarify what she called the "tangled financing" behind New York's bid for the 2012 Summer Games...

New York Daily News April 22, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg raised the humiliating specter of withdrawing the city's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games yesterday as Albany's top lawmakers drag their feet on approving the
proposed West Side stadium...

New York Sun April 21, 2005
Two key lawmakers who stand between the Jets and a proposed West Side stadium sent fresh signals yesterday that they are more concerned about resolving questions surrounding the mammoth project than about meeting construction deadlines set by the team or Mayor Bloomberg...

New York Post April 20, 2005
Final approval for the West Side stadium is unlikely by the May deadline set by the Jets to land a 2010 Super Bowl because of a growing number of lawsuits filed against the project, a key state lawmaker warned yesterday...

New York Newsday April 20, 2005
A state panel whose unanimous support is needed to build the West Side stadium might be prohibited from voting before litigation is settled, State Senate Majority Leader
Joseph Bruno said Tuesday...

The New York Times April 20, 2005
Abandoning a brief flirtation with a run for mayor, former United States Senator Bob Kerrey said late yesterday that he had decided against seeking the city's highest office...

New York Newsday April 19, 2005
The city's largest transit union sued the MTA Monday...

The New York Times April 19, 2005
A coalition of transit and labor advocates sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority yesterday to stop the sale of development rights over the West Side railyards...
(Our reply: Labor groups, labor advocates...)

New York Post April 19, 2005
A coalition of advocacy groups and the city's transit workers yesterday joined the court battle over the MTA's sale of the
West Side rail yard...

New York Daily News Juan Gonzalez April 19, 2005
It shouldn't surprise anyone that two more lawsuits were filed yesterday against the MTA's sweetheart deal...

New York Daily News April 19, 2005
The proposed West Side stadium is getting
blitzed with litigation...

Crain's New York April 18, 2005
West Side will help downtown...

New York Post April 18, 2005
Aides to Mayor Bloomberg were shocked by the revelations that New School University President Bob Kerrey is considering tossing his hat into the mayoral race — especially since he'd just agreed to spearhead a Bloomberg re-election effort...

The New York Times April 18, 2005
Thrown off balance by former United States Senator Bob Kerrey's musings about whether to run for mayor, New York politicians struggled yesterday to gauge his seriousness...

New York Daily News April 18, 2005
Come to New York - and get a high-powered
international ad campaign...

New York Post April 17, 2005
The dilapidated West Side is turning into
the city's new Gold Coast....

New York Post April 17, 2005
Despite a gargantuan waiting list, applications for Jets season tickets skyrocketed in the days after the MTA
approved the club's plans...

New York Times April 17, 2005
Former United States Senator Bob Kerrey, the president of the New School University and a Democratic candidate for president in 1992, said yesterday that he was considering
a run for mayor of New York City...

New York Daily News April 17, 2005
In one of his last acts as mayor, Rudy Giuliani presented the world with his dream of New York's baseball future...

New York Post April 17, 2005
You would think there's enough difference of opinion when it comes to the NFL Draft that the site of the event should remain constant. Not when there's a stadium and a political battle in play. This year, draftniks will head to the Javits Center instead of the Garden this weekend...

New York Post
April 16, 2005
Editorial
Free the Mets!

New York Daily News April 16, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg gave top state leaders a deadline of May 18 for signing off on his plan to build a stadium on
Manhattan's West Side...

The New York Times April 16, 2005
...As this New York real estate drama plays out, it is not surprising to find an environmental impact statement playing the role of potential spoiler...

New York Daily News April 16, 2005
From the outside, it'll be 1923 again...

New York Post April 16, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg blasted Cablevision yesterday for keeping the Mets' winning streak off most city residents' TV sets...

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The New York Times April 15, 2005
The New York Giants will replace their aging stadium with an expanded $750 million complex in the New Jersey Meadowlands under an agreement that Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey said Thursday was "the best deal for the taxpayers
of any stadium deal in the N.F.L..."

New York Post April 15, 2005
Just before lunchtime, John Mara made a prediction at the conclusion of a press conference he'd long awaited...

New York Post April 15, 2005
After threatening briefly to return to the Big Apple, the New York Giants yesterday signed a deal to build a $750 million stadium in New Jersey's Meadowlands — and left the door open
for the Jets to join them...

The New York Times April 15, 2005
The only time the City Council bypassed the mayor and adopted its own city budget was in 1998, when Speaker Peter F. Vallone Sr. was running for governor and challenging a mayoral plan for a publicly financed stadium...

New York Daily News April 15, 2005
Standing next to Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver flatly refused yesterday to make any commitment to vote on the West Side stadium
before Olympic officials select the 2012...

New York Daily News April 15, 2005
The Giants signed a deal with the state of New Jersey yesterday that they hope means they'll be playing in a new Meadowlands stadium in the 2009 season...

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The New York Times April 14, 2005
The New York Giants say they are
staying put in the Meadowlands...

The New York Times April 14, 2005
State approval of the Jets' proposed $2.2 billion stadium on the West Side of Manhattan this week nearly unraveled
in a dispute over $40 million...

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New York Daily News April 13, 2005
The proposed West Side stadium cleared its
second-to-last hurdle yesterday...

New York Post April 13, 2005
The Jets' drive for a West Side stadium is now in the hands of Gov. Pataki and two key Albany lawmakers...

New York Times April 13, 2005
The Empire State Development Corporation formally approved the Jets' proposed $2.2 billion stadium yesterday...

New York Post April 12, 2005
THE new stadium for the Jets over the West Side rail yards is a perfect plan in a perfect world...

New York Post April 12, 2005
New York will lose the 2010 Super Bowl if the Jets don't win final approval for the stadium plan by the end of May...

New York Daily News April 12, 2005
Under the veiled threat of a restraining order, attorneys for the Jets agreed to wait...

New York Newsday April 12, 2005