Developers behind a proposal to build the city’s first Major League Soccer arena are looking to develop land near the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, after plans to build near Yankee Stadium fell apart, sources told Capital.
Manchester City Football Club owner Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan and the New York Yankees, which are partnering in the joint venture for the New York City Football Club, are now looking at a possible site “adjacent to the aqueduct racetrack in Queens,” a source told Capital.
Sources told Capital the club is now looking to develop the site near the racetrack because there is an abundance of land primed for development.
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NYC doesn't need a stinking soccer stadium. Why not use Citi Field instead? The Wilpons just might go for it seeing that their attendance at Mets games has been so abysmal since CitiField first opened.
Not many "actual " Americans watch soccer. This would just be another way to cater to third worlders in NYC. This would just be a waste of money.
Great Location!
Great for Queens!
Build it!
With the future of The NY Times printing plant and the post office distribution center in question I'm surprised that MLS isn't considering a stadium at that location in College Point.
An adjacent highway with connections to Westchester, LI and NJ plus the shopping center across the road and Citi Field down the road I think it would be a natural.
The Belt Parkway and Crossbay Blvd are at a standstill as it is. And residents living near Rockaway Blvd have been inundated with excess traffic and bus and car exhaust from the Resorts World Casino. This is a very bad idea.
Bad idea. Resorts World promised a "destination resort" that has yet to happen. That space should be developed to do that via hotels and other ancillary uses.
there have been countless articles and a few books written about how stadiums are a waste of space and how they hemorrhage funds,and those are baseball stadiums.Having one for a sport that is not popular should be worse.
yeah,resorts world has been a pox in the ozone park area too.
on the contrary, according to the latest ESPN poll soccer is as popular as baseball here in the USA.
i like football more, but as a parent you have to be a fool to allow your kids to play tackle football. and A LOT of kids are playing soccer now. there a are a few hundred kids in the Forest Hills Youth League who play it every fall and a lot of other leagues in the area as well and it's not third worlders. all local kids here
Perhaps the terror-supporting homophobic sheikh can also finance the gondola ride over the East River too.
The Aqueduct is where the City should have insisted the USTA build the tennis stadiums, and not take park land of Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Here's an idea-- tear down Aqueduct (does anyone actually watch horse racing anymore?)-- and build the stadium. The A-train provides transporation. Win-win.
Are you an idiot anon? Putting a stadium not near transit is a recipe for a traffic nightmare every game.
Don't want it in College Point.They're dumpng too much Crap on us already.Though theres a couple of lovely parcels of land called Juniper Valley something or other and Malba Gardens ( hat tip to Big Al Centola.)
Is the Sheik asking for NYC money to pay for it? If so no.
If he wants to use his own oil money - maybe if the community supports it.
Fuck stadiums. There should be a moratorium on their construction. The people who love stadiums - politicians and real estate developers - have their own agendas and interests at heart - not those of most New Yorkers.
If I'm going all the way out to aqueduct I am going to go to the casino instead.
They should just put it in Brooklyn with all the hipster congestion (bike) lanes.
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