Sentences with phrase «side stadium project»

Mayor Bloomberg's lead against potential Democratic rivals dwindles: Mayor Bloomberg's re-election prospects have been set back by Albany's decision to not fund the West Side stadium project.

Before DeFrancisco, former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno represented the Senate on the PAC Board, both he and Silver voted «no» in 2005 on the infamous West Side stadium project, effectively ending then - NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's dream of luring the Olympics to the Big Apple.

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A long - term project, the new stadium could become a white elephant if the football side of the club is negligently managed.

December 7 — Serie A side AS Roma have been given the go - ahead to build their own stadium after an on - off project planning process that has taken five years to complete.

To see Bloomberg siding with Silver — the man who helped kill two of his pet projects, the West Side stadium and congestion pricing — is pretty significant, although their relationship has improved, policy-wise, in recent years.

The mayor has had a rocky histroy in Albany, seeing some of his signature legacy projects die at the hands of legislative leaders, including the West Side stadium and congrestion pricing.

• The fate of Atlantic Yards now rests with State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, who controls one of three votes on the Public Authorities Control Board, which requires unanimity to pass a project — and he boasts an impressive megaproject kill ratio, having already done in the West Side stadium and put the brakes on Moynihan Station.

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 when two of Albany's leaders refused to approve the $ 2.2 billion project.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who held veto power over the stadium, said yesterday that he could not support the project on the West Side, along with the large commercial redevelopment plan the mayor has proposed, because it would undermine the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan, his district.

To get his vote supporting a stadium, he said, it would have to be built somewhere other than the West Side - ideally, near Shea Stadium in Queens - and the big development project for the West Side would have to be stopped.