The New York Times ran an editorial the other day that was highly critical of the plan for a new football stadium for the Jets in West Manhattan. What jumped out at me was that the total cost of this endeavour looks to be about $140 million dollars. That's more than a factor of ten higher than the Fire's new stadium in Bridgeview. Yes, I understand that we're talking about New York City property values, and the stadium would have at least three times the capacity of the now-officially-being-built Firehouse, but I'm still astounded at the disparity.
I would think it would cost a hell of a lot more than $140 million for a football stadium.
I think you mean $1.4 billion with a B.
Supposedly it's about $600 million from the city and state and $800 million from the Jets.
Damn fact-checkers. At least it actually strengthens my argument.
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