{"id":974,"date":"2006-04-14T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/the_new_shorthand_for_exacting_large_concessions_from_deep_pockets_is_they_are_being_a_good_neighbor.html"},"modified":"2006-04-14T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T18:18:28","slug":"the_new_shortha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/the_new_shortha.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Shorthand For Exacting Large Concessions From Deep Pockets Is They Are &#8220;Being A Good Neighbor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I have to read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/newyork\/am-mets0414,0,2337444.story?coll=ny-nycnews-headlines\">this is about &#8220;being a good neighbor&#8221;<\/a> one more time, I might be forced to paint my face blue and orange and barricade myself inside the local State Farm office with enough ammo to finally bring us a World Series championship. Shit, that was out loud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Some council members say they want commitments that reflect or include what the Yankees made to the Bronx in exchange for support of their new ballpark. &#8220;They&#8217;re getting a huge tax break at the expense of New Yorkers, and I think it&#8217;s very appropriate for them to be a good neighbor,&#8221; said Bayside Councilman Tony Avella on the Mets financing proposal that includes $165 million in state and city funds and tax-exempt bonds for their $800-million ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Mets have rejected a $1 million request for community support, countering with a $200,000 offer, council members said. More meetings are expected in coming days, council member John Liu said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I have to read that this is about &#8220;being a good neighbor&#8221; one more time, I might be forced to paint my face blue and orange and barricade myself inside the local State Farm office with enough ammo to finally bring us a World Series championship. Shit, that was out loud: Some council members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge_and_tunnel_club_shorthand","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}