Tuesday, October 9, 2012

MLS' grand parkland replacement scheme


Rendering of proposed soccer stadium from Queens Courier
"Crapper, I found this article on Capital NY regarding MLS's drive to build a soccer stadium on public parkland. While they enlisted SHoP architects to come up with the design for the stadium (which note, is the same one who came up with Barclays Arena), the main piece of crap of this article is how MLS plans to replace the lost parkland...
the July presentation (entitled "The World's Sport in the World's Park) indicates the league has also looked at a bunch of tiny little plots scattered around the neighborhood, including the .04-acre site at Roosevelt Avenue and 90th Street, the .02-acre site at 108th Street and Van Cleef, and a .03-acre site at Xenia Street, Westside Avenue and the Long Island Expressway.
Is that enough to replace a park that is used heavily, with a bunch of small plots? I don't think so!" - Brian

Thanks for bringing this article to my attention. No, it's not enough, which is why MLS and NYC are also proposing buying the MTA's Willets Point yard.
In addition to land bordering Flushing Creek, some of it M.T.A.-owned, and a city-owned plot near the Rego Park Crescent...
The "land bordering Flushing Creek" is located on the same peninsula that the soon-to-be-condemned land sits on that the City claims is heavily toxic and flood-prone. Part of it is also officially mapped DEC wetlands.

So who's paying for the decontamination and raising of the flood plain?

The Rego Park land under consideration is somewhere in here:
and in an area that some want to have reactivated as a rail line.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

B S ! ! !

Anonymous said...

Build it in Central Park instead!

Anonymous said...

Yeah right
Does the city really think people will pay $50 to see a soccer game???? What a scam this will be.

Anonymous said...

This proposal is crazy. The stadium would be located atop the buried section of Flushing Creek. Can we imagine the prohibitive cost of keeping the water out?

Let them build it at Willets Point, the Citi Field parking lot, or the Aqueduct.

Don't touch our parkland!

Anonymous said...

Aside from the wildlife losing their homes...
my concern for this pseudo park is waning.

This is leftover fairgrounds and a former ash dump.

It is not a real park like Forest Hills.
Look at who uses FMCP and for what purposes?
Yet in the end, I love green space...so let it be!

LEAVE IT ALONE!
damn stadiums on the west side of Manhattan
and see how they like it.

Too bad we don't have some endangered species of fish in the Flushing River...otherwise we could put up some fight just like those West Way folks did decades ago in Manhattan.

What the hell could survive
in the Flushing Creek, anyway, besides effluent?

Anonymous said...

Flushing Creek has turtles, among other species.

Anonymous said...

Too bad we don't have some endangered species of fish in the Flushing River...otherwise we could put up some fight just like those West Way folks did decades ago in Manhattan.
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Shulman and Stavisky are endangered feces. Does that count?

Anonymous said...

The Rego Park site is partially occupied by the Forest Hills Little League. Let's see where Koslowitz stands on this one.

Anonymous said...

Nothing should ever be built on railroad ROW except railroad lines.