Just this past year, with an assist from the International Olympic Committee, Mayor Mike Bloomberg gave up his idea of building a multi-use sports stadium on Manhattan’s west side. The New York Yankees and their owner George Steinbrenner had taken the hint long ago and had revamped their future stadium plans: […]
It is not yet clear what the resolution of the recent NYC transit strike will be–there is still no final contract, there are fissures in the support for the tentative contract within the Transport Workers Union, and the Metropolitan Transportation Agency is seemingly taking back one of the items its offered to the TWU as [...]