Do you hear the clock ticking, Bloomberg?

[holzman_tweed]

Condolences to London, which has won the Olympics in 2012 bid.

Many of us in New York are now breathing a sigh of relief.

If we had gotten this thing, Bloomberg was going to fuck the city up royally to accommodate it. A stadium would have been built on Manhatten's west side, where already-clogged traffic would have to have been squeezed around it. Much of my neighborhood would have been torn down so that an "Olympic village" could have been built (and with the recent S.C. ruling on public domain, wouldn't that have watching the money been fascinatnig?) Flushing Meadow Park would have been torn down to put up another stadium.

Also significantly, Bloomberg put alot of his clout behind the bid. I take it as a hopeful sign that he pushed and shoved, and the city gave him a big "'ey, fuck you!" on the West Side stadium. Maybe we'll dump his ass, after all.

Comments

[holzman.livejournal.com]

I think the consensus is that it was a bad idea. I haven't been able to find anyone in favor of it.

[ohclandestine.livejournal.com]

Atlanta longed for international notoriety back in the early nineties. It was tired of screaming about it's busiest airport and Coca-Cola. It got what it wanted and those of us who aren't transplants (which at this point is few and far-between) suffered for it.

New York, of all places, doesn't need that.