The Mets Police

It’s a Christmas Miracle!  An actual plan for the long-discussed affordable hoisting!

Related Companies and the Wilpon family’s Sterling Equities filed plans for a pair of large affordable housing projects on land next to Citi Field.

The filing by Queens Development Corp, a joint venture of the firms, calls for two 12-story mixed-use developments at 126-43 and 126-55 39th Avenue in Willets Point.

With 881 affordable apartments between them, the buildings represent the bulk of the 1,100 such units promised when city officials announced in February 2018 a deal for the first phase of the broader redevelopment of the area. (Via The RealDeal.com)

This is Amazin’.  I would have bet we’d get a shopping mall, or airport parking, or a casino, or a soccer stadium…but wow, affordable housing!

That makes me wonder about the school and such…

When the Queens Borough Board approved the Willets Point redevelopment last year, the plans called for 1,100 affordable residential units across three buildings, 25,000 square feet of retail, one acre of public space, a 650-seat public elementary school, a 3,000-square-foot community facility and roughly 300 parking spaces. Construction was slated to begin in 2024 on the six-acre lot next to Citi Field, home to the New York Mets.

No updates on any of that.  Having met many Mets fans, the reality is there could be a toxic mine with child slave labor being built, but as long as there’s a new sports bar and a casino everyone will be like Oooooh Sports Bar and Casino and ignore the rest….as is usually the case with everything.

That said, I am happy to see the affordable housing might actually happen.  Even the Second Avenue Subway eventually opened, right?

LOLOLOL Saturday’s baseball rating.  The Baseball Mafia is going to have a hard time spinning this!

Among the 18-49 demographic, the game scored 3.8 million total viewers and a 2.9 rating. (via Deadline)

Baseball – you didn’t even have 4 million people between 18 and 49.  Wow.

Notably, Game 6 was not the highest rated and most-watched sporting event of the day — trailing the Tennessee-Georgia college football game on CBS earlier in the afternoon (6.7, 13.06M) (via Sports Media Watch)

Oh wait, there’s more…

For the first time since 2019, the World Series averaged fewer viewers than the NBA Finals (12.4M) (Via Sports Media Watch)

How can you possibly tell me this sport is healthy?

Wow they must teally try to come up with bad caps.

Interesting..

While speaking earlier…. in a webinar titled “The Future of New York: The Economic Impact of Queens,” Richards was asked about what he envisions Queens looking like in 10 years time. The Borough President replied, “If you like soccer, the redevelopment of Willets Point…we’re going to have some announcements on with New York [City] Football Club.” (via HudsonRiverBlue)

I did not see any updates about the affordable housing or the new school(s)…but at least they didn’t greenlight a casino.

I think we all know how this is going to go.

It’s 4pm and I have yet to notice Fox Sports PR put anything out about the ratings for Game 6…but they did have time to put something out about college basketball.

Now I get that it was the weekend, and deals, and other excuses – but I am confident if they DID have a good story it would be out.

So far, all I see is this which says 2.1 rating and 9,500,000 viewers, which sounds like a bad number to my ears.

I imagine some sort of Out of Household and Streaming numbers will get added in to let Fox spin something like 11 million and a tremendous success…..but to my untrained eye, it looks like a bad number.  We shall see.