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Don't Count Your Cosmos Before They've Hatched: Queens MLS Franchise Still Faces Multiple Obstacles

By Neil deMause Wed., Aug. 15 2012 at 7:00 AM
Categories: Featured, Parks, Queens, Soccer, Stadium Development

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Ever since the Post's Albany columnist Fred Dicker reported on Monday -- based solely on two unnamed sources -- that a deal for an MLS stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is "close to being wrapped up" and that construction "could begin early next year," the story has bounced around the journoverse like a free kick off Tobin Heath. WNYC chimed in with the news that Mayor Bloomberg had cited the project semi-approvingly ("My understanding is there's a lot of sentiment in Albany that they would be willing to do it"), while Bloomberg News did the same for Gov. Cuomo ("We support bringing major league soccer to New York and are working with MLS to make that a reality"). Deadspin, meanwhile, went off on an unnamed-source tangent of its own, insisting that "a really rich dude from the UAE" is in the lead to buy a Queens expansion franchise, which may or may not end up being a revival of the New York Cosmos.

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Soccer

Five Questions To Ask About An MLS Soccer Stadium In Flushing Meadows Park

By Neil deMause Mon., Jul. 9 2012 at 10:05 AM
Categories: Featured, Queens, Soccer, Stadium Development
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The week before last, rumors began cropping up that Major League Soccer's long-running search for a place to put a new New York City team -- a search that had circumnavigated the boroughs from Pier 40 in the West Village to Randall's Island and Willets Point -- had settled on a site: the northeast corner of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, not far from the U.S. Open tennis center. On Friday, MLS president Mark Abbott declared that he's been talking to elected officials in Queens about the park site, and that MLS is "thrilled" at the prospect of "bringing the world's sport to the world's park."

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Stadium Development

Bronx Beep to Yanks: Pave Parking Lot, Put Up Hotel Paradise

By Neil deMause Tue., Sep. 20 2011 at 8:21 AM
Categories: Bronx, Stadium Development, Yankees

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Diaz' Facebook profile pic: Only 602 saves short of Mo.
With the new ballfields intended to replace those bulldozed five years ago to make way for Yankee Stadium: The Next Generation finally nearing completion — look, you can even see them now on Google Maps! — it's time to finally turn the page on the ugly battle over the park-stealing, $2.3 billion stadium project, right? Or it would be, if not for the fact that the convoluted financing of the stadium looks like it's going to have repercussions into the second Baldwin administration.

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Sports

Long Island: Where You Can Get Tattooed at a Hockey Game

By Nick Greene Sat., Sep. 3 2011 at 3:52 PM
Categories: Hockey, New York, Nick Greene, Sports, Stadium Development

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"I'll take one of these, and throw in a yin yang while you're at it."
Sick of waiting until after the Islanders-Predators game to get that tattoo of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes pissing on a Rangers logo? Now you don't have to wait! CNBC's Darren Rovell reports Long Island tattoo chain Tattoo Lou's is opening a parlor inside Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The pangs of regret you feel during the long drive home from yet another Islanders loss will be nothing compared to the feeling you'll get after spotting that fresh Kyle Okposo tramp stamp in the mirror the next morning.

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Hockey

Are the Islanders Moving to Brooklyn Now or What?

By Neil deMause Tue., Aug. 2 2011 at 12:37 PM
Categories: Featured, Hockey, Stadium Development

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So Nassau County held its vote on the $400 million New York Islanders arena plan yesterday, and for team owner Charles Wang things went about as well as ... it's tempting to say "as well as a typical Islanders game," but that'd be cruel. In any case, the final vote was 57-43% against funding a new arena (plus a new minor-league baseball stadium for an as-yet nonexistent Atlantic League team) with a 4% property tax hike, one that just might have been illegal.

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Perky 'Islanders' Have Own Sport, Arena Controversy

By Neil deMause Mon., Jul. 25 2011 at 10:52 AM
Categories: Featured, Hockey, Stadium Development

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An Islanders arena campaign ad tries to warn of the consequences of a "no" vote, by using actual footage of the team's defense dissolving.
Today's Daily News features an editorial on next Monday's New York Islanders arena vote, which is notable for a couple of reasons: One, it's a rare acknowledgment by the New York media that there is, indeed, a sport known as hockey; and two, it's an even rarer admission that there's another hockey team in the area in addition to the Rangers and that one in New Jersey that wins Stanley Cups every so often, a team that otherwise survives in New York sports lingo only in the archaic expression "Potvin sucks!"

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Madoff

If Mets Go Under, Who Pays for Citi Field?

By Neil deMause Mon., Feb. 14 2011 at 8:13 AM
Categories: Featured, Madoff, New York Mets, Stadium Development

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If the last ten days in the life of Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon were a baseball game, they would have been shut out, made 17 errors, and hit into a game-ending unassisted triple play. (That last feeling, admittedly, is one that they're already familiar with.)

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Brooklyn Nets

Ratner's Green-Card Fundraising Scheme: Is This a Scandal, or What?

By Neil deMause Mon., Dec. 20 2010 at 12:34 PM
Categories: Brooklyn Nets, Featured, Stadium Development

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The ever-epic Norman Oder of Atlantic Yards Report today closes out his epic series on Bruce Ratner's bizarre green-cards-for-financing scheme with a (wait for it) epic FAQ on exactly how the New Jersey Nets Brooklyn New Yorkers co-owner plans to take advantage of an obscure federal job-promotion program to save himself a jabillion dollars.

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Baseball

Dead Boss Still Stiffing Bronx From Beyond the Grave?

By Neil deMause Thu., Jul. 15 2010 at 4:12 PM
Categories: Baseball, Featured, New York Yankees, Stadium Development

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Poor dead George Steinbrenner doesn't even have a grave to spin in yet, and already he's being raked over the coals for his past sins.

First came Jim Dwyer's recounting of The Boss's legacy of egotism and abuse in today's Times, which recalls how Steinbrenner shook hands with Ed Koch on a lease extension at the old Yankee Stadium, only to back out when he decided he'd rather keep all his cable boodle for himself.

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Are Mets Road Woes to Blame for Empty Seats in Queens?

By Neil deMause Mon., Jun. 7 2010 at 10:19 AM
Categories: Featured, New York Mets, Stadium Development

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Following the Mets' improbable come-from-way-behind win over the Marlins yesterday, the Shea Stadium Citi Field scoreboard blared the slogan "We Believe in Home Field Advantage," along with the news that the Amazin's now boast a sparkling 22-9 record in Flushing.

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