{"id":893,"date":"2006-03-29T09:38:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T17:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/reggie_jackson_can_surely_explain_the_convoluted_parkland_exchange_and_why_the_team_feels_it_needs_to_build_more_parking.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:52:44","slug":"reggie_jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/reggie_jackson.html","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Jackson Can Surely Explain The Convoluted Parkland Exchange And Why The Team Feels It Needs To Build More Parking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What, the Yankees think they can trot out Reggie Jackson and then all of the sudden everyone will want to sink millions into infrastructure improvements? Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/403853p-342061c.html\">yes they do<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Reggie Jackson was Mr. March for the Yankees yesterday as he helped pitch the Bombers&#8217; planned new ballpark at a City Council hearing &#8212; but the proposal got a Bronx cheer from opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees want a new $800 million stadium on parkland near their current home but the plan has drawn fire from Bronx residents and officials upset over the loss of green space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am first a minority,&#8221; said Jackson. &#8220;The Yankees weren&#8217;t always really a good partner in the Bronx.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Jackson, a paid adviser to Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, argued the team is now reaching out to the community &#8212; and urged Council members to forge a &#8220;partnership&#8221; agreement with the Boss.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. October was told his sales pitch before the planning subcommittee was &#8220;a day late and a dollar short&#8221; by Councilwoman Helen Foster (D-Bronx), who has been a sharp critic of aspects of the stadium plan.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, the Yankees think they can trot out Reggie Jackson and then all of the sudden everyone will want to sink millions into infrastructure improvements? Yes, yes they do: Reggie Jackson was Mr. March for the Yankees yesterday as he helped pitch the Bombers&#8217; planned new ballpark at a City Council hearing &#8212; but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}