While we’re all getting upset about what not to wear, or maybe even excited about the winning streak, here’s something everyone is ignoring.
Avella, who attended the April 15 appeal, said the lawyers representing the city and the developers, Sterling Equities, the owner of the Mets, and The Related Companies, “made very poor arguments for the project, saying, ‘It will improve the area.’”
via Willets Pt. appeal goes to the judges – Queens Chronicle: Queenswide.
The article also has this great quote.
According to the WPU, one of the judges also questioned the city’s stance that the 1961 state law allowing the parking area in Flushing Meadows to be for a stadium and not other uses: “Let’s not pretend that there isn’t a specific purpose for that parkland to support — parking, for a stadium, Shea stadium.”
So the Chronicle is today’s must read if you care about The Mall.
