{"id":3927,"date":"2008-11-03T15:49:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2008-11-03T15:49:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T20:49:50","slug":"so_either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/so_either.html","title":{"rendered":"So Either . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2008\/11\/02\/2008-11-02_city_now_owns_over_40_of_willets_point_a.html\">this is the most important use of city money, and far, far outweighs incurring potential multi-gazillion-dollar deficits<\/a> or the mayor is totally full of shit and there is not and will not be a crippling financial crisis (in which case, take a third term off the table!).  Because it can&#8217;t be both:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city has gobbled up another chunk of Willets Point in Queens as Mayor Bloomberg pushes his plan to transform the gritty industrial zone near Shea Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the biggest land deal to date in the neighborhood, the city persuaded Indian food distributor House of Spices &#8212; the second-largest landowner at Willets Point &#8212; to sell its 4 acres, city officials told the Daily News. <\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to be announced Monday along with an agreement for a third of an acre owned by another company. <\/p>\n<p>Combined with previously inked deals, the city now controls more than 40% of the 62-acre tangle of auto body shops and other businesses &#8212; and could soon have half the land. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg wants to spend $3 billion to turn the area into a glitzy enclave of 5,500 residences, stores, a hotel and a convention center.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/flushing\/irontriangle\/index.htm\">Iron Triangle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . this is the most important use of city money, and far, far outweighs incurring potential multi-gazillion-dollar deficits or the mayor is totally full of shit and there is not and will not be a crippling financial crisis (in which case, take a third term off the table!). Because it can&#8217;t be both: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,35,38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-grrr","category-i_dont_get_it","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927","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=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}