Friends, whether it is Pete Alonso being Ike Davis II, or someone trying to develop 126th street, all of this has happened before and will happen again.
On Sunday, I wrote about the rumors of the Raiders playing at Shea Stadium, but that article uncovered the below. A perfect example of how nothing every changes in Queens.
If Trump’s stadium ever is to be built in the Flushing Meadows section of Queens, many knowledgeable observers say, something else would have to be built with it – high-rise housing or shopping centers – that is an assured income-producer and could pay off the debt. (via NY Times)
Hmmm that sounds so familiar. Rich guys. Development. Shopping Centers.
Let’s back up. December 1985.
New York State and New York City yesterday authorized Donald J. Trump to build a $286 million domed sports stadium next to Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens, if he can attract a National Football League team to play there. (NY Times)
By 1987 nothing would come of this. Trump sometimes promises to build things and doesn’t. It happens. The plan for the stadium was canceled. The Times tells us….
Owners of businesses that would have been displaced by the stadium, grouped together as the Willets Point Business Association, had opposed the project vociferously and had grown increasingly irate as uncertainty over the stadium’s future had caused similar uncertainty about their own.
That also sounds very familiar.
