Give Them (Fourth And) An Inch . . .

No sooner does Queens make an overture towards the Jets than the team wants, like, all of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park! Real nice, guys:

The Jets, who refused to consider a less lucrative stadium in Queens during their ill-fated five-year quest to build a new home in Manhattan, are now proposing to build an 80,000-seat football stadium where the Fountain of Planets, a remnant of the 1964 World’s Fair, now stands in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

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Many people thought that the team was looking at a ramshackle district of auto shops known as Willets Point, near Shea Stadium and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. But Queens officials say the Jets fear that it may take until 2009 or 2010 for the city to condemn the property, relocate the 150 businesses that are currently there and clean up the environment. The team, however, wants a new stadium by the end of 2008, when its Meadowlands lease expires.

So the team has come up with the proposal for the Fountain of Planets site.