NY Post
A controversial plan to bring a new $1.2 billion arena and entertainment venue to state-owned Belmont Park will now include a $105 million full-service stop on the Long Island Railroad, Gov. Cuomo announced Monday.
The station serving Belmont, NY, is a huge score for the New York Islanders arena project and will be situated between the Queens Village and Bellerose stations on the LIRR’s Main Line, just east of the Cross Island Parkway.
A press release put out by the governor’s office claimed it will the cost the arena developers – a partnership that includes the owners of both the Islanders and New York Mets — $97 million of the estimated $105 million price-tag.
However, state officials later clarified that the developers are only paying $30 million up front with the remaining $67 million to be covered by a no-interest, multi-decade state loan. The state will pick up the remaining $8 million.
The news didn’t sit well with project opponents.
“Obviously the State of New York wants to play hide the puck, and pretend that arena developers are paying for a massive transportation project instead of the taxpayers and commuters, and they buried that actual fact in the fine print. That is a disrespect, and cardinal breach of public trust,”said Tammie S. Williams of the Belmont Park Community Coalition.
16 comments:
The ghost of the corrupt Charles Wang is smiling.
Emm ---Belmont Park already has a dedicated track spur and a station.
How about buy the LIRR equipment to wash the fucking trains, so dirty you cant see out the windows, water and 48oz beer bottles full of piss roll on the floors.
The dam 7 trains are kept cleaner.
This merge with the NYC MTA was the worst thing to happen since the Colin Ferguson shooting. $9 Great Neck to Woodside and that's OFF PEAK thanks to Cuomo II jackass and his "upgrades"
This arena project, which is a couple hundred feet from the Queens border will ruin the surrounding Queens communities. The project lacks enough parking and will create the worst gridlock for miles both in Queens and Nassau.
I don't get what an extra station on the main line east of the Cross Island is going to do. If you look at a map, that is literally a few blocks walk over from the Bellerose station. They already have a station that stops at Belmont, just run a train there hourly at all times and stop wasting more money with useless projects!
Reading the comments, no one is offended by the zero percent loan he's giving off the NY taxpayers to complete this project. Everyone was in an uproar about Amazon, meanwhile they would have brought jobs with them and people looking to rent/buy.
Here he is helping someone get rich with NY taxpayer money, at the very least interest should be charged. Everyone is offended by the aspect of the project but what about where the money is coming from. Meanwhile we are being taxed more and more to cover "the budget"
###This arena project will ruin the surrounding Queens communities###
Running all those mostly white one family home people out of town is the whole idea. The developers can then bring in some McDonalals, Pizza Hit and build some barracks with cheap labor renters who have no choice but work or spend money in the complex.
Kind of like a modern day slavery technique, "I owe my soul to the company store"
Construction of the Nassau Coliseum instantly blighted the whole area around it, even today you need a gun & flack vest to walk after dark. So much so the McDonalds now has bullet proof glass, massive car jacking's & thefts after events
Most people who will be effected by the arena,have no idea whats going on. 19,000 seat arena,250 room hotel,very large shopping mall and the race track is expanding. There are so many obvious issues with this over sized project and you have to wonder why it is still proceeding.
Follow the money
Everyone who has been following this project is aware of the massive NY State giveaway of our tax dollars and have been very vocal about it. The local politicians aren't listening to their constituents concerns and since this project is in Nassau County, Queens residents haven't been in the loop about it and how it will effect them and their quality of life.
GRIDLOCK,GRIDLOCK, GRIDLOCK,GRIDLOCK
EVERYWHERE.EVERYWHERE,EVERYWHERE
Southeast Queens is getting
SCREWED
not once but everyday, as long as you will live anywhere near this soon to be mess
Someone please explain the divergeance of Elmont vs Belmont?
I thought Newsday goofed on their front page
Queens is getting sold out by their elected officials
I don't understand why they are building an 19000+ arena in a residential area. Why is the Governor and his Empire State Development arm pushing so hard and fast to get this project approved and started? Follow the money,How much money has the developers and their families given the Governor? Also how much taxpayer money are we spending on the Governor Cuomo Arena?
Gargoyle, get into your muscle car and drive, oh I'm sorry, I mean SIT on the Cross Island for the duration of the afternoon and early evening, as I normally do. Keep an eye on your temperature gauge as you watch your big block Chevy overheat.
> However, state officials later clarified that the developers are only paying $30 million up front with the remaining $67 million to be covered by a no-interest, multi-decade state loan. The state will pick up the remaining $8 million.
They won't be paying interest on the loan - but us taxpayers will be paying interest on the extra bonds the state will have to sell to raise the extra money to build this for them!
The Islanders and the Mets can afford to pay for this, I wonder how much money Cuomo and his cronies are pocketing in exchange for them foisting this burden on us taxpayers.
Costs are socialized, profits are privatized. It must be great to be rich and connected.
>The project lacks enough parking and will create the worst gridlock for miles both in Queens and Nassau.
There's already lots of parking there for the Belmont racetrack. How much more do they need? Are they going to be building over the parking lots to construct the stadium?
>The project lacks enough parking and will create the worst gridlock for miles both in Queens and Nassau.
There's already lots of parking there for the Belmont racetrack. How much more do they need? Are they going to be building over the parking lots to construct the stadium?
Yup, they are constructing a 19000 seat arena, 250 room hotel convention center,mega shopping mall and the race track is planning on expanding. The small amount of parking they have will be shared by all.
Get ready for over 30,000 people traveling to this location EVERYDAY. The Cross Island Parkway is already a parking lot and the local residential streets won't be able to handle the cars and TRUCK traffic.
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