Regular readers may recall Steve Cohen reportedly gave $1,500,000 to Mayor Adams campaign,
Well, TheCity.NYC reports...
Steve Cohen, who bought the team for $2.4 billion in the fall of 2020, hosted Mayor Eric Adams and other top City Hall officials at Citi Field this January, where he and others presented ideas for Willets Point, the 61-acre piece of land across the street, THE CITY has learned.
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Cohen’s people also discussed broader plans to beautify the area around the stadium, including potentially adding hiking trails along Flushing Creek.
.So that part is good. Beautifying the area and trails and opening up he water, all good. Casinos, not so good.
And just so we have this down the road when we need to follow the money – let’s make sure we have down all the various names this is under. Again from TheCIty,nyc
New Green Willets, a Delaware-based limited-liability company, was formed in January to press city and state officials about the issue, lobbying records show.
NGW is linked to the Stamford, Conn., office of Point72, a financial firm owned by Cohen. City lobbying records list Vincent Tortorella, the general counsel of Point 72, as the main principal of the New Green group.
The company then retained Moonshot Strategies and Hollis Public Affairs to lobby City Hall officials and other electeds, records show. New Green Willets has paid each organization $20,000 since January.
OK ya got all of that – we have “New Green Willets”, Point 72, Moonshot Strategies and Hollis Public Affairs.
I’m still looking forward to the affordable housing and the school we were promised. And at least the Cohen/Point 72/NGW/Moonshot/Hollis project is across the street and not on parkland.
As for our old pals the Wilpons, the same article says
Queens Development Group, a joint-venture between Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ Related Companies and Sterling Equities, the real estate company owned by the Wilpon family (who used to own the Mets) and Saul Katz (an accused Bernie Madoff co-conspirator and in-law to the Wilpons), just got the green-light to start work on a portion of the Willets Point land last May.
Anyway, sure was nice of Steve to reportedly donate $1,500,000 to the mayor’s campaign.
