{"id":1014,"date":"2006-04-26T08:15:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/the_shakedown_went_very_well_thank_you.html"},"modified":"2006-04-26T08:15:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T16:15:57","slug":"the_shakedown_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/the_shakedown_w.html","title":{"rendered":"The Shakedown Went Very Well, Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After clamoring for the Mets to be &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/you_start_weari.html\">better<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/the_new_shortha.html\">neighbors<\/a>,&#8221; Queens politicians seem happy with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/412105p-348544c.html\">whatever deal they&#8217;ve struck with the team in exchange for their help financing the new stadium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Mets pledged jobs, contracts and other goodies for Queens yesterday to win support for their proposed new stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a deal here,&#8221; said City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens), whose district includes Shea Stadium. &#8220;It&#8217;s a home run for the borough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The deal paves the way for approval today by the full Council for a $798 million financing deal to build a new stadium for the Mets. The Council is also set to approve a similar $1.2 billion financing deal for the Yankees&#8217; new stadium.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>No dollar amount was given for the Mets pact, but 25% of the team&#8217;s annual community and charitable donations and related activities is to be steered to Queens sports, school and community groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets also pledged to &#8220;use all reasonable efforts&#8221; to have at least 25% of construction contracts and jobs go to Queens firms and residents, and another 25% of the contracts go to minority- and women-owned firms.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After clamoring for the Mets to be &#8220;better neighbors,&#8221; Queens politicians seem happy with whatever deal they&#8217;ve struck with the team in exchange for their help financing the new stadium: The Mets pledged jobs, contracts and other goodies for Queens yesterday to win support for their proposed new stadium. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a deal here,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}