News Archives
January-March 2005
Rally outside MTA Headquarters,
In Exclusive Pictures,
March 30, 2005
The New York Times March 31, 2005
The chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has thrown his support behind the Jets' $720 million bid for the rights to build a stadium over its railyards on the West Side of Manhattan, all but assuring that the authority's board will approve a sale to the team...
New York Newsday March 31, 2005
The Jets are expected Thursday to win MTA approval to build a West Side stadium, according to a key authority board member...
The New York Times March 31, 2005
...arguably no other issue has thrust the authority into so emotional and politicized a dispute as the debate over the future of the West Side railyards...
New York Post March 30, 2005
The Jets' drive to build a West Side stadium got a huge boost yesterday from an influential MTA board member...
New York Newsday March 30, 2005
The $440 million offer from six developers seemed to jump the New York Jets offer ahead of its competitors for the western rail yard, but whether that money will ever materialize may be the bigger question...
New York Newsday March 30, 2005 Column of Joseph Dolman
New York Newsday March 30, 2005
The Jets inched toward a touchdown dance Tuesday as the team's plan for a stadium received the backing of several MTA board members...
New York DailyNews March 30, 2005
Are you having trouble understanding the bids from Cablevision and the Jets for the West Side railyards? You're not alone...
New York Daily News March 30, 2005
It used to be that lobbyists would share drinks and prime rib dinners with the politicians they were trying to influence. Now they share half their chromosomes...
New York Daily News Editorial March 30, 2005
The New York Times March 30, 2005
Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's board began preparing yesterday for one of the most contentious decisions the board has faced in recent years: who should buy the authority's West Side railyard...
New York Daily News March 30, 2005
The Jets should get ready for a victory dance in the end zone - the team is on the verge of winning the MTA's West Side railyards...
New York Newsday March 30, 2005
A key MTA board member today extolled the Jets proposal to build a stadium on the West Side rail yards...
AFP March 29, 2005
The race for the right to host the 2012 Olympics has come down to a three-city race between Paris, London and New York...
New York Daily News March 29, 2005
The Jets' offer for the MTA's West Side railyards site could be worth nearly $300 million more than rival Cablevision's - but it comes with more strings...
New York Daily News March 29, 2005
A member of the powerful state Board of Regents is also being paid as a lobbyist for Cablevision as it pushes to kill the Jets' stadium project...
New York Post March 29, 2005
Madison Square Garden's bid for the West Side rail yards would be worth $400 million to the MTA — compared with as much as $720 million offered by the Jets...
The New York Times March 29, 2005
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority released previously undisclosed details yesterday about the offers by the Jets and two other bidders for the hotly contested development rights at the West Side railyards...
New York Newsday March 29, 2005
The Jets and six partners are offering the MTA up to $720 million for development rights to the authority's West Side rail yards, while Cablevision is offering about $425 million...
New York Newsday March 28, 2005
The MTA risks tainting the sale of its West Side rail yards by using a real estate firm linked to a pro-stadium group...
New York Post March 28, 2005
The Jets' next home could be in New Jersey for all Mayor Bloomberg cares about the football team's future — what he really wants is a new convention center that would be part of a West Side stadium...
New York Newsday March 28, 2005
Only in New York could a billion dollars be ignored. With a battle between the New York Jets and Cablevision over a prime piece of Manhattan real estate growing louder and more shrill by the day, a $1.05 billion offer by a little-known energy company has been overshadowed...
New York Daily News March 28, 2005
Legal heavyweights for the Jets and Cablevision squared off yesterday in a nasty televised slugfest...
New York Daily News March 28, 2005
Juan Gonzalez Since Michael Bloomberg became mayor, the West Side has turned into City Hall's favorite site
for grandiose economic plans...
New York Newsday March 27, 2005
Near the Javits Convention Center and the site of the proposed multimillion-dollar New York Jets stadium, the Elghanayan family of Rockrose Development Corp. has quietly and steadily snapped up property over the past four years...
New York Daily News March 27, 2005
The Rev. Al Sharpton will hit the television airwaves tomorrow touting the proposed West Side stadium in a new Jets ad...
The New York Times Editorial March 27, 2005
New York Newsday March 27, 2005
A mayoral candidate, incensed by the West Side stadium bidding process, accused the Bloomberg administration Saturday of playing favorites with one of the bidders...
The New York Times March 27, 2005
Representative Anthony D. Weiner,
a Democratic candidate for mayor of New York,
accused the Bloomberg administration yesterday of engaging in a "classic, old-fashioned back-room deal" to get a Jets stadium...
New York Newsday March 27, 2005
The West Side rail yards are almost entirely
hidden from public view by an 8-foot wall...
New York Post March 27, 2005
A consultant hired by the MTA to evaluate bids for the West Side rail yards is urging officials to reject both the Jets and Cablevision offers because they're way too low,
real-estate sources said...
New York Post Op-Ed March 26, 2005
AS an architect, it is impossible not to love New York. But I wonder whether the city has lost its enthusiasm for the boldness and courageous action that have defined it...
New York Post March 26, 2005
Supporters of the West Side stadium charged yesterday
that Cablevision's claim it submitted a
$760 million plan was fuzzy math...
New York Newsday March26, 2005
Deciding the bidding war over the rights to
develop the MTA's West Side rail yards
may not be as simple as looking at the dollar signs...
The New York Times March 26, 2005
...the story of how the developers joined the Jets is, in a city of cutthroat real estate deals, an interesting mix of Olympic enthusiasm, commercial self-interest and politics...
New York Daily News March 26, 2005
The $2 billion extension of the No. 7 subway line "still may be possible" if the MTA awards Cablevision the site of the proposed West Side stadium, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday...
New York Newsday March 25, 2005 James Dolan killed the Knicks and Rangers, he ruined the Garden and he personally drove Marv Albert to New Jersey, a superfecta of sports management ineptitude...
New York Post March 25, 2005 Editorial
New York Daily News March 25, 2005
Cablevision's bid for the MTA-owned land where the Jets hope to build a stadium is worth $760 million...
New York Post March 25, 2005
Madison Square Garden has upped the ante in its spectacular bidding war for the West Side rail yards
by offering the MTA $760 million...
New York Newsday March 25, 2005
Cablevision has offered the MTA a $760 million bid for the company's plan to build a residential community on the authority's far West Side rail yard...
The New York Times March 25, 2005
Cablevision, which has spent a year and tens of millions of dollars trying to block the Jets and the city from building a stadium over the West Side railyards, has bid $760 million for the property...
New York Daily News March 25, 2005
Poor Gifford Miller! He got stood up...
Here are the real victims of Cablevision.
The opposition wants you to ignore them.
You won't see their picture in The New York Times.
Here is what they look like.
New York Newsday March 24, 2005
As if Cablevision didn't have enough worries, here's another: its 700 unionized food and merchandise employees at Madison Square Garden, working without a contract since mid-2003, are increasingly fed up...
New York Post March 24, 2005
If we build it, the Super Bowl will come!
The New York Times March 24, 2005
The Rev. Al Sharpton stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday and endorsed the proposed West Side stadium for the Jets...
New York Daily News Editorial March 24, 2005
New York Newsday Editorial March 24, 2005
New York Post March 24, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg isn't given to public displays of emotion — but if he were, he'd be hugging Al Sharpton today...
New York Post March 24, 2005
The Rev. Al Sharpton joined the battle to build a West Side stadium yesterday and immediately tackled Cablevision...
The New York Times March 24, 2005
National Football League owners awarded the 2010
Super Bowl to New York on Wednesday, contingent on the
Jets' completing a stadium on the Far West Side of Manhattan
in time for the 2009 season...
New York Daily News March 24, 2005
The Jets scored twice yesterday, first picking up the Rev. Al Sharpton's backing for their proposed West Side stadium, then learning they'll host the 2010 Super Bowl if the gridiron is built...
New York Newsday March 24, 2005
The Rev. Al Sharpton is bucking all four Democratic mayoral candidates by backing the Jets stadium, but his support for the project was brokered by the top adviser to
stadium foe Fernando Ferrer...
New York Newsday March 24, 2005
NFL owners offered another endorsement for the Jets' plans to build a West Side stadium...
New York Daily News Michael Goodwin Column March 23, 2005
An Apology to Richard Sandomir
(Whose name rhymes with "Weh ist mir")
Wall Street Journal March 23, 2005
In 2002, the Jets prepared an audacious plan for a 73,000-seat football stadium that, with the flick of a switch, could transform into a 24,000-seat arena. Dubbed "Trisport," the plan was far enough along that executives from the Jets and Cablevision traveled to Japan to tour the only stadium that could perform such a conversion...
The New York Times Editorial March 23, 2005
New York Newsday March 23, 2005
Madison Square Garden officials, who have been battling the Bloomberg administration over the proposed West Side stadium, asked the City Council Tuesday to preserve
the Garden's $11-million annual tax break...
The New York Times March 23, 2005
The Rev. Al Sharpton said last night that he supported Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan for a West Side stadium...
New York Post March 23, 2005
Cablevision is muzzling former Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
blacking out a television ad in which he heartily
endorses the West Side stadium...
New York Daily News March 23, 2005
One of the three bidders for the West Side railyards site has offered to join forces with Cablevision to keep the Jets from building a stadium there...
The New York Times March 23, 2005
Now that the bids have been submitted for the West Side railyards, two things have become clear...And to pay the higher cost, whoever wins the auction will have to
build far more high-rise construction along the Hudson than
city planners ever intended...
New York Newsday March 23, 2005 Anti-stadium community groups say they aren't impressed...
New York Newsday March 23, 2005
The MTA will continue to use Newmark & Co. to
help it plan for the West Side...
The New York Times March 22, 2005
The Jets sharply raised the stakes yesterday in their battle to build a football stadium over the West Side railyards, offering the state $720 million for the site and adding a residential development...
New York Daily News March 22, 2005
The Jets went deep yesterday,
bidding $720 million for the West Side railyards...
New York Daily News March 22, 2005
The City Council is set to hold a hearing today on a bill demanding that Albany legislators end Madison Square Garden's annual $11.6 million property tax break...
New York Post March 22, 2005
But it doesn't take a heartbeat to see that the scheme proposed by the Jets and their new real estate partners steamrolls Cablevision's plan...
New York Post March 22, 2005
The Jets offered an astounding $720 million
for the West Side rail yards yesterday...
New York Newsday March 22, 2005
In a dramatically larger offer, the Jets offered $720 million Monday to build a stadium on the MTA's West Side rail yards...
The New York Times March 22, 2005
Dave Anderson ...with all the controversy over the stadium, what about the team that the Jets will present for the 2005 season...
New York Daily News Juan Gonzalez March 22, 2005
Jets Deliver Their Bid
In Exclusive WestSideStadium.org Pictures
Shooting From the Drip March 21, 2005
New York Magazine
As if a bloody battle with the mayor wasn’t bad enough, Cablevision scion James Dolan is now locked in a wrenching power struggle with his father...
The New York Times March 21, 2005 A month ago, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority invited prospective buyers to place bids for the West Side railyards, a move that could decide whether Manhattan will have a stadium for Jets football and the 2012 Olympics...
New York Post March 21, 2005
The battle for the West Side turns into a steel-cage match today when the Jets and their rivals at Madison Square Garden
put in their final bids...
The New York Times March 21, 2005
Maui is the host of the N.F.L. owners this week, and the Jets hope to come away from the meeting as the
host of the 2010 Super Bowl...
Christian Science Monitor Editorial March 21, 2005
New York Post March 21, 2005
Julia Vitulio-Martin
BIDS are due today for developers who want to use the MTA's West Side rail yards — because a public outcry forced the opening of a once-closed bidding process...
New York Newsday March 21, 2005
...But the holes once left in the Narrows from Hylan's day bear witness to a different kind of New York legacy --
the confounding of official plans...
New York Newsday March 21, 2005
On the eve of Monday's deadline for proposals to build atop MTA's Far West Side rail yard, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it had received none...
New York Daily News March 21, 2005
Democratic mayoral hopeful Gifford Miller may have to refund more than $80,000 in campaign contributions...
New York Daily News March 21, 2005
Rush & Malloy
New York's horsey set is sporting long faces now that the city's oldest equestrian show has galloped off...
New York Daily News March 20, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg bluntly told Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan the proposed West Side stadium "is happening whether you like it or not," Dolan alleges...
New York Post March 20, 2005
The mayor's office yesterday vehemently denied published reports that Mayor Bloomberg warned Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan that the stadium is going to be built...
New York Daily News March 20, 2005
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is backing the proposed West Side stadium in a new TV ad airing for the first time tonight...
The New York Times March 20, 2005
Council Speaker Gifford Miller can trace one of the last friendly moments he spent with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to a serene day in October 2003 when they traveled on Mr. Bloomberg's private jet to Miami...
The New York Times March 20, 2005
Four Democratic candidates and a lone Republican seeking to unseat Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in the November election took turns criticizing...
New York Post March 20, 2005
The New York Mets spent nearly $200 million on superstar free agents this off-season to give their lineup a face-lift — and now the team is spending millions more on a Shea Stadium makeover...
New York Post March 19, 2005
The Jets could ditch their plans to relocate to Manhattan's far West Side if New York doesn't make progress with the proposed stadium, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday...
New York Newsday March 19, 2005
The West Side stadium fight flared anew Friday, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg again lashed Cablevision...
New York Daily News March 19, 2005
Dolan Puppets Parade and Preen
New York Times Editorial on MTA
March 19, 2005
The New York Times March 18, 2005
Two Giants officials yesterday toured the site of the proposed Jets stadium on the Far West Side of Manhattan...
New York Post March 18, 2005
The battle over the West Side stadium spilled over into the Democratic mayoral primary yesterday...
New York Post March 17, 2005
The Jets took off the gloves yesterday, launching a
legal assault against Cablevision...
The New York Times March 17, 2005
At a luncheon last week for lawmakers and other supporters of a new stadium in Manhattan, the New York Jets served food, gave a PowerPoint presentation, doled out plastic minihelmets...
New York Post March 17, 2005
CLEAR choices concentrate the mind. New Yorkers can thank City Council chief Gifford Miller
for presenting one such choice this week...
New York Daily News March 17, 2005
It's "unlikely" that construction of the proposed
West Side stadium will start on schedule,
the Jets' new lawyer said yesterday...
The New York Times March 17, 2005
The brawl over the proposed West Side football stadium tumbled into the federal courts yesterday when the Jets sued their most forceful opponent, Cablevision...
New York Newsday March 17, 2005
In the suit, the Jets use the phrase to slam a
Cablevision-funded anti-stadium group called the
New York Association for Better Choices...
New York Newsday March 17, 2005
The Jets Wednesday sued the team's arch-enemy
in the fight over a West Side stadium...
The New York Times March 16, 2005
National Football League owners are expected next week to award the 2010 Super Bowl to the Jets' proposed $1.7 billion stadium...
Meow!
It's Gifford Miller!
New York Post March 16, 2005
New York is the odds-on favorite to land the 2010 Super Bowl if the city gets the proposed West Side stadium...
New York Daily News March 16, 2005
The NFL is expected to select the proposed $1.7 billion West Side stadium as the conditional host of the 2010 Super Bowl...
New York Times March 16, 2005 Dave Anderson
IN the Jets' campaign for their proposed $1.7 billion Far West Side stadium, the 2012 Olympics remain a questionable event, but the 2010 Super Bowl will soon appear
prominently in the prospectus...
When the owners of Madison Square Garden decided to lobby against the football stadium proposed for the West Side, they did not simply hire a lobbying firm to represent their interests in Albany, as big companies used to do...
New York Daily News March 15, 2005
The city should abandon its plans to build a West Side stadium and look to Queens to become the new home of the Jets and Giants, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller said...
The New York Times March 15, 2005
Patricia Lynch was one of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's closest aides, serving as the gatekeeper to his office, his director of communications and one of his chief advisers...
The New York Times March 15, 2005
Don Garber, the commissioner of Major League Soccer, said yesterday that league officials and representatives of the Jets and New York City had met to discuss the prospects for soccer at the Jets' proposed stadium on Manhattan's Far West Side...
New York Post March 15, 2005
One way or the other, the MetroStars' long-running search for a home is coming to a head...
New York Post March 15, 2005
Escalating his attack on Mayor Bloomberg over the proposed West Side stadium, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller yesterday urged the Jets and Giants to join forces and
build a new facility in Queens...
The New York Times March 14, 2005
Woody Johnson, the owner of the Jets, was making the rounds of Super Bowl parties in Jacksonville, Fla., when word drifted in from New York that his leading opponent, Cablevision, had outbid the team for the stadium site on Manhattan's West Side...
New York Post March 14, 2005
Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff is urging New Yorkers to revolt against Cablevision if the company wins its war
to block the West Side stadium...
New York Post March 14, 2005
With New York and New Jersey in a full-scale border war over the future of the Jets — and possibly the Giants...
(Plus Post Letters to the Editor)
New York Post Editorial March 13, 2005
Eliot Spitzer is trying to have it both ways again. This time, it's on the West Side stadium plan...
New York Post March 13, 2005
A powerful labor group with close ties to Council Speaker Gifford Miller has sent the mayoral hopeful a blistering letter asking that he end his opposition to the West Side stadium...
New York Daily News March 13, 2005
The Cablevision advertisement asks the following question: "What Is Time Warner Cable Afraid Of?"...
New York Post March 13, 2005
COMPARING the old Penn Station, torn down in 1963, to the new, Vincent Scully of Yale famously re marked that,
"Through it, one entered the city like a god.
One scuttles in now like a rat."...
New York Daily News March 13, 2005
A second registered lobbyist for the Jets was on a state senator's payroll last year - in apparent violation of a state law...
New York Post March 12, 2005
Cablevision suffered a new blow in its battle to block the proposed Jets stadium when Standard & Poor's cautioned investors about the cable operator's prospects —
citing its bid for the West Side rail yards...
New York Daily News March 12, 2005
Neither House of the state Legislature included any money for the proposed West Side stadium in their draft budgets...
The New York Times March 12, 2005
During his four months in office, Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey has been such a paragon of fiscal rectitude that many state officials are startled to see him in what has historically been one of the least cost-effective government projects - a stadium deal...
New York Post March 12, 2005
Cablevision and the Jets have made nearly a quarter of a million dollars in campaign donations over the last year...
The New York Times March 11, 2005
With the New York Giants dangling the possibility of leaving New Jersey for the proposed West Side stadium in Manhattan,
state officials went to court...
New York Daily News March 11, 2005
The possiblity of the Giants joining the Jets in a move from the Jersey swamps to a proposed West Side stadium is for real, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday...
New York Post March 11, 2005
The Giants' possible return to the city at a
West Side stadium is more than a ploy...
New York Newsday March 11, 2005
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Thursday said too much energy is being spent debating whether to
build a West Side stadium...
The New York Times March 11, 2005
The implosion of the Giants' stadium deal with New Jersey on Wednesday has created the peculiar possibility
that the team will join the Jets...
New York Newsday March 11, 2005
It seems that the chances of a second New Jersey football team joining the Jets in Manhattan are somewhat less than Giant...
New York Daily News March 11, 2005
Editorial Board Interview with Virginia Fields
New York Daily News March 10, 2005
A Jets/Olympics stadium in Queens would be a money-loser for New York City, nine elected officials from
Queens wrote in a letter...
New York Daily News March 10, 2005
The Giants threatened yesterday to make an end run to the proposed Manhattan West Side stadium...
New York Post March 10, 2005
The Jets have approached the Giants about joining them in the fight for a West Side stadium, a source said yesterday...
New York Times March 10, 2005
The New York Giants said that their deal to build a privately financed $700 million Meadowlands stadium collapsed yesterday...(Can you say, West Side Stadium?)
New York Newsday March 10, 2005
Nearly three decades after they left New York, seemingly for good, might the Giants be eyeing
a return trip across the Hudson?...
The New York Times March 10, 2005
The "payments in lieu of taxes" - or Pilots - are usually generous deals negotiated with businesses to keep them in town.
New York Daily News March 10, 2005
In the most expensive campaign ever fought over a single issue in New York, Cablevision and Madison Square Garden spent $22.1 million in 2004 to defeat the stadium...
New York Newsday March 9, 2005
A thoroughly unscientific poll found that a solid majority of national sports business leaders believe the controversial West Side stadium will be built...
New York Times March 9, 2005
Realizing that there is campaign money to be made by remaining undecided on the proposed Far West Side stadium...
New York Daily News March 9, 2005
The Knicks are playing better now, too late, and the owners are so spiteful they won't let their own audience watch on television...
New York Post March 9, 2005
The brutal battle over the proposed West Side stadium led an exasperated Jets president yesterday to pronounce the Big Apple "a nasty place" for doing business...
New York Post March 9, 2005
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer yesterday said he believes New York can host the Olympics without
building a West Side stadium...
New York Newsday March 8, 2005 U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel bucked many city Democrats Monday by backing Mayor Michael Bloomberg's stadium proposal...
The New York Times March 8, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg gained a politically potent ally yesterday in his fight to build a Jets stadium on the West Side: Representative Charles B. Rangel of Harlem...
The New York Times March 8, 2005
Cablevision has found a powerful weapon in its war against a proposed West Side stadium for the New York Jets:
its cable lines...
New York Post March 8, 2005
The fiercely contested West Side stadium plan won an important and unexpected ally yesterday — Rep. Charles Rangel...
The New York Times March 8, 2005
About 2.4 million Time Warner Cable customers in the New York metropolitan area were expected to lose access to Knicks games and Mets...
New York Post Editorial March 8, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg — and all of New York, for that matter — scored a touchdown yesterday when Rep. Charles Rangel announced his support...
New York News Juan Gonzalez March 8, 2005
City Council Speaker Gifford Miller will introduce a bill tomorrow to force Mayor Bloomberg to get the Council's okay for a new Jets stadium...
New York Post March 7, 2005
Knicks owner James Dolan was not in his customary baseline seat at the Garden last night. And by tonight, Dolan, in a raging feud with his father Charles, may not be in his
customary role as Knicks owner...
New York Post March 7, 2005
New Jersey is taking advantage of the fight over
where to build a new stadium for the Jets...
New York Newsday March 7, 2005
Stadium fight: How will it end?...
New York Post March 7 2005
In the latest salvo in the war between the Jets and Cablevision, team owner Woody Johnson is reportedly considering a bid for the cable giant's sports assets...
The New York Times March 7, 2005
An offer to build a stadium in New Jersey that would be shared by the Jets and the Giants is complicating plans for a Jets stadium on the Far West Side...
New York Daily News Editorial March 6, 2005
It was astonishing to hear Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Peter Kalikow - he of the fare hike - say recently that a chance to reap hundreds of millions of dollars for the all-but-bankrupt agency was a lamentable "distraction."...
New York Daily News Michael Goodwin March 6, 2005
The mayor is acting like he has a political death wish. Unless he snaps out of it, his wish will be granted in November...
New York Daily News March 6, 2005
A big-name Manhattan public relations guru was on the state Senate payroll last year at the same time he was a registered lobbyist for the Jets...
New York Newsday March 6, 2005
From Seattle to Miami, sports fans who enjoy the bells and whistles that transform games into events never have been happier...
New York Daily News Mike Lupica March 6, 2005
Michael Bloomberg, the imperial mayor of New York, is starting to act squirrely on this weird West Side Story of his...
New York Post March 6, 2005
Plan B for the Jets — a new domed stadium at the Meadowlands...
New York Post March 5, 2005
Revved up like a linebacker over the West Side stadium plans, the Jets pounded Madison Square Garden yesterday as a greedy monopoly...
The New York Times March 5, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday called on Gifford Miller, the speaker of the City Council and a vocal opponent of the West Side stadium, to return $5,200 in campaign contributions that
he has received from officials of Cablevision...
New York Daily News March 4, 2005
City Controller Bill Thompson said yesterday he will probe the little-known stream...
New York Daily News March 4, 2005
Madison Square Garden's fight to scuttle the proposed $1.7 billion Jets stadium has cost the Garden a high-profile football event:
the 70th NFL draft...
New York Post Editorial March 4, 2005
Unfortunately, Mayor Mike's remarks created yet another diversion in the increasingly bitter, short-sighted effort to derail the West Side stadium...
New York Post, March 4, 2005
Beginning work on the West Side stadium by spring isn't just
good for the city's chances of landing the Olympics...
News March 3, 2005
The state's top Democrat lawmaker wants a timeout on plans to build a football stadium on the West Side...
New York Post March 3, 2005
The attacks on Mayor Bloomberg over the
West Side stadium plan are taking a toll...
New York Post March 3, 2005
WHAT, exactly, was Mayor Bloomberg thinking when he said the other day he'd "consider" building a new Jets stadium in
Queens rather than in Manhattan?...
New York Post March 3, 2005
Team President Jay Cross yesterday "unequivocally"
ruled out any possibility of building a stadium in Queens...
The New York Times March 3, 2005
With the Far West Side stadium emerging as a central issue in the mayoral race, Council Speaker Gifford Miller yesterday sought to take the lead in opposing the Bloomberg administration by introducing legislation...
New York Newsday March 2, 2005
The leaders of both state legislative houses said yesterday they will not be rushed into approving a West Side stadium...
New York Post March 2, 2005
In a surprising new twist, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said for the first time that he would "consider" the possibility of an Olympic stadium in Queens...
New York Newsday March 1, 2005
The reporter was fake, using a fake name, spoofing alleged fake White House reporter "Jeff Gannon." But the news conference was real serious...
New York Daily News Juan Gonzalez March 1, 2005
Forget any sweetheart deal between City Hall and the Jets for a new Manhattan football stadium...
Crain's New York Business February 28, 2005
With a few words of farewell at a press conference last week, the chairwoman of the visiting International Olympic Committee team handed Mayor Michael Bloomberg his most significant political windfall in many months...
Crain's New York Business- Editorial
February 28, 2005
New York Daily News February 28, 2005
Mayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer took aim yesterday at Mayor Bloomberg's Sunday parking meter policy at an East Harlem church, but he saved some brimstone to slam the West Side stadium project...
New York Daily News February 27, 2005 Mike Lupica
Shooting from the Drip
The New York Tmes February 27, 2005 Selena Roberts
As is, the proposed site for the West Side stadium is a field of unsightly rails on the Hudson River that elicits an image of the stitches on Frankenstein's monster...
New York Daily News February 27, 2005 Filip Bondy
They enjoyed four days of shameless fawning from our local politicians...
The New York Times February 27, 2005
Twenty years ago this month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, pressed for cash, sold the East Side Airlines Terminal...
New York Newsday February 27, 2005
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has described the Olympics as a "city transforming event" and it surely would have to be...
New York Post February 26, 2005
Members of the 2012 Olympics evaluation committee had barely finished packing their bags yesterday when Mayor Bloomberg found himself fending off...
New York Daily News February 26, 2005
The lead architect and the primary consultants on the proposed Jets stadium have stopped work on the project...
New York Newsday February 25, 2005
IOC: No stadium, no games
New York Post February 25, 2005
The head of the visiting Olympic delegation said last night that having a green light for the West Side stadium is crucial to New York's bid for the 2012 Games...
The New York Times February 25, 2005
New York State officials announced yesterday that they would choose from among three developers to transform the city's central post office into a new Midtown train station...
The New York Times February 25, 2005
Experts on the Games say New York has yet to satisfy the International Olympic Committee's firm demand that host cities guarantee to pay for all cost overruns...
New York Daily News February 25, 2005
Calling Mayor Bloomberg a "winner," the chairwoman of the International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission said yesterday the panel has "trust" that he will build a $1.7 billion stadium on the West Side...
New York Times February 25, 2005
The intense focus by elected officials on the West Side railyards has threatened to overshadow the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's urgent need for a new five-year capital program...
New York Post February 25, 2005
Three members of the International Olympic Committee took in a Knick game last night as guests of Dolan...
New York Newsday February 25, 2005
City Council Speaker Gifford Miller threw an Olympic-sized hurdle in front of the mayor's drive for a West Side stadium...
The New York Times February 25, 2005
Council Speaker Gifford Miller pledged yesterday to block the Bloomberg administration's plan to
finance a stadium on the Far West Side...
New York Newsday February 24, 2005
Could James Dolan be a Donald Trump? It might take a whopping $3 billion and 10 years to find out...
New York Newsday February 24, 2005 Dennis Duggan Column Mayor Michael Bloomberg, struggling to get his proposed stadium for the New York Jets built on the West Side, doesn't have to look far for inspiration...
New York Newsday February 23, 2005
The protesters, led by a leather-throated contingent of Local 580 ironworkers, tried a variety of chants such as "Stadium Yes! Weiner No!" before settling on a sing-song "Weeeinnner!...
New York Times February 23, 2005
Shea Stadium might be good enough for Mets fans, but Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday...
New York Post February 23, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Pataki promised International Olympic Committee members yesterday that a West Side stadium will be approved before the IOC meets in July to pick a site for the 2012 Games...
New York Daily News February 23, 2005
International Olympic Committee officials, in the city this week to evaluate New York's bid for the 2012 Games, were greeted Wednesday morning by a team of Republican and Democratic politicians...
New York Daily News February 22, 2005
When members of the International Olympic Committee review the city's bid for the 2012 Olympiad this week, they will also receive an alternative proposal...
The New York Times February 22, 2005
A week after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority opened up the bidding for the West Side railyard, where the city wants to build a football stadium, a new bid has come in...
New York Times February 22, 2005
A set of majestic ceiling-high windows framed Central Park in its loveliest winter outfit yesterday, the saffron-colored "Gates" exhibit coated in a layer of still-pristine snow...
New York Post February 22, 2005
The woman who holds the Big Apple's Olympic fate in her hands is a Moroccan track star who was educated in the United States and was effusive last week in praising London's bid...
New York One February 22, 2005
As the International Olympic Committee visits the controversial site of the West Side stadium and other proposed venues for the 2012 Summer Games...
The New York Times February 21, 2005
Valentine's Day may be over but the wooing has only just begun as members of the International Olympic Committee arrived in New York...
New York Post February 21, 2005
Community activists, opposed to two key proposed Olympic venues — a West Side stadium and the downtown Brooklyn basketball arena — have been appealing to the International Olympic Committee...
The New York Times February 21, 2005
The leaders of New York's 2012 Olympic bid will labor this week to impress the International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission, which will spend the next four days scouring the city and investigating the bid details...
The New York Times February 21, 2005
New York's organizers have put themselves in a delicate position by making the planned West Side stadium the centerpiece of their Olympic bid...
The New York Times February 21, 2005
Daniel L. Doctoroff caught Olympic fever while watching a World Cup soccer game at Giants Stadium in 1994...
New York Times Daniel Okrent February 20, 2005 ...The pertinent answer - the one newspaper people have been using since Gutenberg - is, "Write a letter to the editor." But the unsung coda, in the overwhelming preponderance of cases, is familiar: "even though there's almost no chance it will be published."...
New York Times February 20, 2005
Tonight 13 members of an evaluation commission of the International Olympic Committee will arrive in New York to assess the city's bid for the 2012 Summer Games...
New York Daily News February 20, 2005 Mike Lupica
You have to say this about the organizers of New York City's bid for the 2012 Summer Games and the International Olympic Committee...
New York Post February 20, 2005
TODAY'S the big day when the International Olympic Committee's site-evaluation team hits town to see how New York stacks up...
New York Post February 19, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg touched off speculation yesterday that a truce could be in the works with Madison Square Garden over the proposed West Side stadium...
New York Daily News February 19, 2005
Madison Square Garden's plan to build housing on the same site proposed for the Jets stadium is "never going to happen in a million years," Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday...
New York Times February 19, 2005
A few weeks ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's relentless drive for a stadium for the Jets and the 2012 Olympics over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's West Side railyards seemed to be inching toward the finish line...
New York Post February 18, 2005
The state's economic-development chief yesterday pledged to work with any developer chosen by the MTA to build over the West Side rail yards...
New York Daily News February 18, 2005
Developers interested in bidding for the West Side rail yards - the site of the proposed $1.7 billion Jets stadium - will not automatically be bound to the current zoning scheme, Mayor Bloomberg pledged yesterday...
New York Newsday February 18, 2005
The Olympic Stadium may be just a dream -- or, for some, a nightmare -- but according to a new MTA subway map, it's right there, a few blocks from the A, C and E...
New York Newsday February 18, 2005
Gov. George Pataki said yesterday that others are welcome to bid on a far West Side rail yard, though he remained inclined to building a stadium on the land...
New York Newsday February 17, 2005
The West Side stadium fight is fast becoming a no-holds-barred, billionaire-on-billionaire smackdown...
New York Post February 17, 2005
IT took MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow just two months to find a buyer for 195 Broadway, his "wedding cake" office building near Ground Zero, which he's selling for $270 million...
New York Post February 17, 2005
MTA chairman Peter Kalikow's surprise decision this week to call for more bids to develop the West Side rail yards came just two days after the Jets thought they were headed to an arbitrated settlement...
New York Post February 17, 2005
The warring parties in the battle over a West Side stadium last year spent nearly $14 million to hire some of the state's most powerful lobbyists and on massive media campaigns, records show...
The New York Times February 17, 2005
...Afterr the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that it would allow anyone to bid on the development rights to the West Side railyards, which the Jets want for a stadium, real estate executives began wondering...
AP February 17, 2005
The New York Jets, whose plan for a new stadium in Manhattan now has competition, are welcome to be partners in a new stadium...
New York Daily News February 16, 2005
Michael Goodwin And in the extraordinary battle over a West Side football stadium for the Jets, the lusty bulls are being played by Papa Charles and Baby James Dolan. As we speak, the Dolans are walking downhill, with the wind at their backs...
The New York Post February 16, 2005
The battle over a West Side stadium took a dramatic turn last night when the MTA suddenly opened up development of its Manhattan rail yards to any firm interested in the site, not just the Jets and Madison Square Garden...
New York Post February 16, 2005
A plan to expand the No. 7 subway line to Manhattan's far West Side is back on the express track after the city doled out $45 million to the MTA for the final design of the underground extension, officials said yesterday...
The New York Times February 16, 2005
The Bloomberg administration's longstanding plans for a West Side stadium that could be used by the Jets, the Olympics and conventions were jolted yesterday when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
The New York Times February 15, 2005
THIS has been the best season in many years for the Cablevision-owned New York Rangers. They have not played a single game...
New York Daily News February 15, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg says Cablevision's campaign to defeat the West Side stadium can be summed up in six words:
"To hell with all of America."...
New York Post Editorial February 15, 2005
If New York wants the Olympics, it needs to make crystal clear to those members that it is committed — with no wiggle room — to doing whatever it takes to make the games a success...
New York Post February 15, 2005
More than a dozen black and Hispanic leaders endorsed the West Side football stadium yesterday amid
a "historic" deal with the Jets...
New York Daily News Juan Gonzalez February 15, 2005
Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a new $1.7 billion Jets stadium on Manhattan's far West Side is about to collapse -
for a good reason...
The New York Times Letters to the Editor
I am not involved in and have taken no position on whether a stadium should be built on the Far West Side of Manhattan, whether the 2012 Olympics should be held in New York, or whether there should be arbitration between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Jets...
The New York Times February 14, 2005
For more than 150 years, the tone of the Far West Side of Manhattan has been set by what was once the 30th Street Yard of the New York Central Railroad - grimy but necessary, far enough from Midtown to be out of sight and earshot, important enough to be nearby...
New York Newsday February 14, 2005
A referendum on the city's plan to build a stadium on the West Side will not appear on the Election Day ballot, it was announced Sunday...
The New York Times February 13, 2005 Peter Vecsey
Shrimp and white wine in luxury boxes have become my classic examples of all that is wrong with contemporary sports. But John K. Mara, the executive vice president of the Giants, says it's not just about effete refreshments as he explains why the Giants need a new stadium...
New York Daily News Michael Goodwin February 13, 2005
The first setback came early, when Bloomberg learned that Sen. Majority Leader Joe Bruno was dumping on the mayor's pet project, a Jets stadium on the West Side. The city foolishly assumed he was on board, but Bruno dramatically raised the bar for winning his support. And he did it in a way that was a direct slap at the mayor...
When is an offer not an offer? When it is an offer
made by Jimmie Dolan
(The MSG "Offer,"
February 11, 2005)
The New York Times February 12, 2005
In an effort to strengthen their bid and be considered more than a spoiler, the owners of Madison Square Garden released several new details yesterday of their plan to build a large residential complex over the West Side railyards as an alternative to a stadium for the Jets...
The New Tork Times February 11, 2005
The National Football League has pulled its annual draft from Madison Square Garden, citing a dispute with Cablevision, which owns the Garden and opposes the building of a new stadium for the Jets on the West Side of Manhattan...
New York Newsday February 11, 2005
Cablevision's $600-million offer to build on the West Side isn't just meant to stop the proposed Jets stadium but to scuttle the city's Olympic bid, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday...
New York Post February 10, 2005
The New York Times is evidently unafraid to make an ass of it self if it can add even incrementally to the growing hysteria against the West Side stadium project...
New York Observer February 10, 2005
Their basketball team had had just about its worst losing streak ever. Their company’s stock price was trailing the Standard and Poor’s index badly. Their family-run satellite-TV venture lost so much money that corporate directors rebuffed the father and sold it to the highest bidder...
The New York Times February 10, 2005
The Republican leader of the New York Senate said yesterday that the Legislature should not be pressured into approving a proposed $1.7 billion stadium over the West Side railyards before New York City knows whether it has won its bid for the 2012 Olympics...
New York Newsday February 10, 2005
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long argued for early approval of the Jets West Side stadium proposal, saying it would improve the city's 2012 Olympic chances. But Wednesday the heads of the state Assembly and Senate said they do not see a need...
New York Daily News February 9, 2005
The MTA'S boss, Peter Kalikow, gave Madison Square Garden three days to show that its last-minute, $600 million offer for the West Side rail yards property is more than just a bid to block the Jets' stadium plans...
Read it here first!
Original Text of MSG Hail Mary Pass, with Response from MTA, February 9, 2005
The New York Times February 9, 2005
After months of questions from council members and financial experts about how the city would pay for its $300 million investment in a football stadium on the West Side, the Bloomberg administration announced this week that the city would subsidize the stadium by diverting tens of millions of dollars in real estate payments that normally flow into the city budget...
New York Daily News Editorial February 9, 2005
Make no mistake, Cablevision had one intention in dramatically proposing to spend $600 million to build housing on Manhattan's West Side, and that was to protect its Madison Square Garden franchise from competition by a new Jets stadium...
New York Times Editorial February 9, 2005
As tales of power, money, politics and hubris go, it would be hard to beat the battle over 13 acres on the Far West Side of Manhattan. From the start, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York Jets planned to use the parcel to build...
Jay Cross Statement to City Council, February 7, 2005
New York Post Editorial February 8, 2005 --
Show us the money, Jim Dolan! That's what New Yorkers ought to be shouting to the Madison Square Garden boss after his arena claimed Friday — totally out of the blue — that it was ready to pay $600 million for the site meant for a new West Side stadium...
Letters to The Times, February 8, 2005
Before you enthuse, even a little, about Madison Square Garden's $600 million offer to buy development rights on the Far West Side, you may want to ask Cablevision subscribers or Knicks fans or Rangers fans - some people, unfortunately, being all three - what they've learned from their experience...
El Diario Editorial February 8, 2005 (In English)
The New York Times February 8, 2005
Suddenly faced with more than one potential offer for the West Side railyards, Peter S. Kalikow, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said yesterday that the authority's need to get the highest possible price to keep the transit system running properly outweighed even City Hall's desire for a football stadium and its bid for the 2012 Olympic Games...
New York Newsday February 8, 2005
The city intends to shift tens of millions of dollars a year in proceeds from government subsidized real estate deals, which usually end up in city coffers, to pay for the West Side stadium platform, Bloomberg officials said Monday...
New York Post February 6, 2005
Later this month, executives from the New York Jets will present a proposal to bring the Super Bowl to a new West Side stadium in 2010, The Post has learned...
Mike Lupica New York Daily News Fbruary 6, 2005
Maybe this all really started the other day when Richard Brodsky, chairman of the Public Authorities Committee, sweated Peter Kalikow...
The New York Times Editorial February 5, 2005
The New York Jets didn't make it to the Super Bowl, but the Jets' front office has been running with the ball ...
The New York Times February 5, 2005
The owner of Madison Square Garden, after spending many months and millions of dollars trying to prevent the Jets and the city from building a football stadium on the West Side, played its boldest card yet yesterday, offering to pay far more for the land than the Jets have proposed...
New York Daily News February 4, 2005
New York Jets President Jay Cross, who's leading the team's fight to build a West Side stadium, talked with the
Daily News Editorial Board...
The New York Times February 4, 2005
...The Jets said yesterday that they had offered $100 million for the property. Marissa Shorenstein, a spokeswoman for the Jets, said the team was confident that it would "establish a fair market value to be paid to the M.T.A." through arbitration...
New York Post February 3, 2005
It's a striking redesign of a proposed stadium,
sheathed in a glass veil that can dramatically change
appearance with the flip of a switch...
The New York Times February 3, 2005
Battered by criticism from community and civic groups, the Jets unveiled the second makeover for their proposed West Side stadium yesterday - a leaner, less imposing glass-walled structure with a new entrance on 11th Avenue...
New York Post February 2, 2005
The Jets will unveil a new-look stadium today when team officials roll out a dramatically different design for the West Side sports complex that will be one-third the original height and feature a new retail center and broadcast studios...
New York Newsday February 2, 2005
The New York Jets and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Tuesday released the long-awaited appraisals of land to be used for the West Side stadium project...
New York Daily News February 2, 2005
The Jets have scaled back the design of their proposed West Side stadium, cutting away 120 feet from its highest point, the Daily News has learned...
The New York Times February 2, 2005
Several community groups and at least one mayoral candidate said yesterday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority should get competing bids for the development rights to its West Side railyard, rather than simply sell it to the Jets to build...
New York Daily News
From Lloyd Grove Column February 2, 2005
While Cablevision has been running anti-stadium commercials for months, it stoutly refuses to accept any pro-stadium spots, not even a feel-good commercial in which Olympic athletes wax poetic about the prospect of holding the 2012 Games at the planned New York Sports and Convention Center...
Crain's New York February 1, 2005
The New York Jets and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed Tuesday to have former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell arbitrate the ir dispute over the value of the development rights to build a West Side Stadium. The move came after negotiations had reached a stalemate...
The New York Times February 1, 2005
The sincerity of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's desire to bring the 2012 Olympics to New York has passed its most important test. It did not happen in a big moment in front of a large crowd, but in a series of small moments...
The New York Times January 31, 2005
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants the Jets to pay nearly $300 million, or nearly three times what the team has offered, for the rights to build a 75,000-seat stadium over the railyard on the Far West Side of Manhattan, according to executives who have been briefed on the negotiations...
New York Daily News January 30, 2005
The Jets and the MTA are bringing in former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell to arbitrate the dispute over how much the football team will pay for the rights to build a stadium over the West Side rail yards, the Daily News has learned...
New York Daily News January 30, 2005
There's a secret plan to defeat the West Side stadium. The coalition fighting the stadium is considering a range of hard-nosed tactics, according to a confidential memo
obtained by the Daily News...
Michael Goodwin New York Daily News January 30, 2005
By hiring an outside engineering firm, the MTA hopes to get to the bottom of last week's mysterious subway fire. Sorry, that won't do it. To really figure out what went wrong, the MTA needs to dig much, much deeper. I suggest an exorcist...
New York Daily News Bob Raissman January 28, 2005
Two franchises headed in different directions. In the dead of winter, the Mets inspire optimism. Could it be they have hit the fork in the road and are headed toward the promised land? No such question can be posed about the Knicks...
Crain's New York
Mayor Bloomberg says Cablevision boss Jimmy Dolan is a lying SOB. He's mostly on target. The advertising campaign that Cablevision has launched against the proposed West Side stadium for the New York Jets and the Olympics is filled with distortions and untruths...
New York Daily News January 28, 2005
State lawmakers blitzed the MTA with subpoenas yesterday, demanding to see a secret appraisal of the West Side stadium site that the agency will only show to the Jets.
Bob Herbert The New York Times January 28, 2005
In a lot of ways New York is a wonderful city. For my money, it's the greatest. But like most American cities...
Juan Gonzalez New York Daily News January 27 2005
Not so fast with your end-around run for the Jets, Mayor Bloomberg. That was the message from City Council Speaker Gifford Miller yesterday. Miller (D-Manhattan) announced that he was launching a campaign...
New York Newsday January 25, 2005
Last Wednesday, Cablevision chief executive James Dolan hopped the corporate jet to Denver to help clinch a deal that would mean the demise of the company's failed nationwide satellite TV venture...
The New York Times January 23, 2005
Fernando Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president and a likely mayoral candidate, is calling for a public referendum to settle the debate on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal to build a $1.4 billion stadium for the Jets on the West Side of Manhattan...
The New York Times January 23, 2005
A couple of weeks ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stood amid students in a library of a Brooklyn middle school that had just been removed from the list of the state's worst. The moment was meant to promote the mayor's election-year case that schools are getting better...
The New York Times January 22, 2005
"What does Shelly want?" It's the question that Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff and the Bloomberg administration keep asking at City Hall, in Lower Manhattan and in Albany...
Associated Press January 21, 2005
New Yorkers Oppose Stadium...or Do They? Quinnipiac Poll Results
George Vecsey
The New York Times January 20, 2005
SEBASTIAN COE possesses two Olympic gold medals in the 1,500 meters and two silvers in the 800 meters. Presumably he knows something about not making false starts...
The New York Times January 20, 2005
The City Council gave formal approval yesterday to the Bloomberg administration's plan to rezone a large swath of the Far West Side for office towers, housing, parks and a new boulevard...
The New York Times January 19, 2005
It is hard to imagine an area more ripe with potential than the Hudson Yards, a 40-block site at the edge of Midtown Manhattan that is the focus of one of the city's biggest development projects in recent memory. But...
The Jets have joined forces with DirecTV, the nation's fastest-growing satellite-TV service provider, in a phone campaign to get New Yorkers to drop Cablevision, the Daily News has learned. New York Daily News January 16, 2005
Another Dreary Editorial from The New York Times
January 16, 2005
The New York Times
January 16, 2005
Just after he was elected, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told New Yorkers in his first State of the City speech that there was no money in the budget to subsidize two $800 million baseball stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets...
The New York Times
January 12, 2005
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg delivered a feel-good State of the City address heavy with campaign-year pomp yesterday. He declared the city had risen from the ashes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack under his leadership, and he promised...
Mayor and Council Reach Deal on West Side Development
The New York Times
January 11, 2005
Does Cablevision’s waging such an expensive, messy fight against the Jets’ West Side stadium make good business sense?
New York Magazine, January 17th Issue
In its latest effort to derail a proposed West Side stadium for the Jets, Cablevision is urging the City Council to pass a law prohibiting the Bloomberg administration from subsidizing the stadium with millions of dollars it receives from a special tax program...
The New York Times January 6, 2005
He's not planning to attend the Jets playoff game in San Diego Saturday, but Mayor Mike should be forgiven if he's distracted till the game is over. Bloomberg has a lot riding on the outcome - maybe even a stadium...
Michael Goodwin Column,
New York Daily News
January 4, 2005
