Sentences with phrase «west side stadium»

Peters said the PACB, which famously killed the West Side stadium deal in 2005, almost never rejects a proposal and pointed out that the governor's budget office works on the issues before they are presented for a vote.

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.

• 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.

No on the West Side stadium.

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.

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.

In terms of real estate, he will likely go down as one of the most influential politicians to have shaped the city — from vetoing the controversial West Side stadium proposal to shepherding through approval of millions of dollars in 421a tax breaks for the mega towers along Billionaire's Row.

Mayor Bloomberg's plan for a West Side stadium is further along than you might think.

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 board, known as the PACB, consists of one appointee each by the governor, Assembly speaker and Senate majority leader and once killed then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's dream of a West Side stadium.

But he even turned a press - conference question about Silver's past veto of the proposed West Side stadium into an ode to the legislature.

Quinn praised Espaillat for his past opposition to a West Side stadium proposal and pointed to his grassroots organizing abilities.

Silver and Bloomberg have repaired their occaisionally testy relationship over the years, even though the speaker has blocked past proposals from the mayor, including the doomed West Side stadium and congestion pricing.

Not exact matches

The Arsenal side will look set to re-focus on the EPL today with a visit to West Ham United in their new stadium in one of the most eye catching game at the weekend.

Britton - Stroud was on the west side of the stadium, the Tech sideline and therefore above the path Double T took back towards the tunnel.

Two sides currently in the bottom three will also be in action on Saturday as Leicester City welcome West Ham United to the King Power stadium in what is a must win game for Nigel Pearson's side, and QPR travel to West Brom hoping to end a run of five straight defeats.

Yawkey Way is on the west side of Fenway Park and runs from Van Ness Street to Brookline Avenue, roughly from behind home plate in the stadium down the left field line.

Also, the committee will have to compete with far more pressing needs for financing of the 86,000 - seat stadium it hopes to build on the West Side of Manhattan.

West Ham are moving into a new stadium in the close - season, and are keen to strengthen the side using their new income in order to close the gap on the top clubs.

After a difficult start to life at new stadium, slowly they are getting use to playing at Olympic Park and City will find it hard to beat this resilient West Ham side this time around.

Bayern Munich fans will be seated in the west side of the stadium and Borussia Dortmund fans in the east.

The speaker is also known for successfully pushing to repeal New York City's commuter tax and blocking two of Mayor Bloomberg's major proposals: his attempt to build a stadium on Manhattan's West Side and his plan to charge drivers $ 8 for entering a congestion zone in Manhattan.

Doctoroff, for example, doesn't mince words when talking about his primary nemesis, Cablevision owner James Dolan, in his controversial (and ultimately unsuccessful) battle to win approval for a Jets football stadium on the Far West Side.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent nearly four years assembling a $ 2.2 billion plan to build a football stadium on the Far West Side for the New York Jets.

«It's a little surprising that the speaker, the one who was so adamant about not having the stadium on the West Side, now wants a new arena,» one council member said.

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.

Many of the city's largest civic groups, many economists and West Side neighborhood groups agreed with Mr. Silver's opposition, though sometimes for different reasons, saying the stadium would hurt development by discouraging office tenants and residents who would not want to work and live next to it.

The tensions reached a boiling point when State Senator Thomas K. Duane, a Democrat who represents the West Side, went over to talk with the stadium opponents.

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.

«Virtually every independent observer concluded that the impediment to the redevelopment of the West Side was the stadium.»

In the early Bloomberg years, Quinn fiercely resisted the mayor's plans to build a stadium for the Jets and the 2012 Olympics in her district on the far West Side.

Visit the ancient Roman Theater on the south west side of the Acropolis Kallimarmaro (ancient marble stadium)

Next season with Conte at Chelsea, Guardiola at the Blue Moon, Mourinho at the Mancs, Leicester improving, Klopp improving that Liverpool side, West Ham at a new stadium, Tottenham improving and Southampton aswell, Arsenal are going to find it very difficult but signing Granit Xhaka is a good start.

And in Manhattan, how about that site on the West Side where Bloomberg wanted to build a stadium?