When New York City Almost Got The 2012 Olympics

Would've been incredible too...apparently that whole area was and basically still is a giant old rail yard...still, the land alone is probably worth billions.

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Would've been incredible too...apparently that whole area was and basically still is a giant old rail yard...still, the land alone is probably worth billions.

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The stadium would have gone over the rail yard, since it's still active... hell of an engineering feat. Also where the northern terminus of the high line park is located.

That would have been awesome. But $22mil on an ANTI-stadium campaign? To tank the Olympics? What am I missing?

yeah Hudson Yards is going to change that entire side of the island.

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Amazing how that area of the rail yard leading into Penn Station and where the Lincoln Tunnel comes up from the Hudson is generally such a dump. Anything in that area would be a huge plus.

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Hudson Yards and the convention center are right there.

Dolan is a piece of grade A shite. He wanted to shut down the stadium so that the garden could still be the only game in town. The stadium would've had a retractable roof and they were saying they would've hosted the super bowl and final four (which side note, only 7 stadiums in the country are big enough by NCAA rules to host the final four). Especially with the train station already in the basement, you would've had built in public transportation to Long Island and New Jersey. I remember watching Dolan's ads on TV about how bad the stadium was and it was laughably stupid. If I remember correctly, Dolan's nephew or something was on the board that ultimately voted the project down.

He needs to focus on running the Knicks into the ground and stay out of literally everything else.

Amazingly though, as the Grantland article points out that the west side stadium failing put the city in a panic mode and fast tracked the New Yankee stadium, Citi Field, Barclays Center, and Met Life Stadium. All of those were built eithin a year or two of each other after all trying for decades to get new stadiums.

Still, though, Dolan is an absolute piece of garbage and sabotaged what would've been absolute, one of a kind event and stadium. A venue THAT big and that cool ON Manhattan island would be a world renowned spectacle. It would've rapidly become the go to stadium in the country for major events and an Olympics would have been one of the most memorable ever.