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Originally Posted by Antares41
I would like them to build a football stadium over the trainyard. LIC would flourish if it were an exciting destination for NYers. All the elements as far as transportation is in place. Bring back the Jets to NYC!
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No thank you. A football stadium that's only used a 8 times per year is a bad idea. Any team would want to make it accessible to the suburbs via roads. Queens Plaza and Sunnyside Yards don't have good access to a major highway. Sure, the Long Island Expressway goes near there, but that would be a disaster every time they had a game or concert there. And again, it would only be for a couple dozen events per year. They'd be better off building it in Flushing. The infrastructure is already there and it's closer to the Long Island suburbs where much of the fanbase is located, anyway.
Long Island City has several cultural elements already, including MoMA PS1, the Culture Lab, and not far from the Museum of the Moving Image and Noguchi Museum. It would be better to lean into that with a graffiti museum or something that harkens back to the 5Pointz era rather than a big publicly-funded little-used stadium that wouldn't do much to actually help the area thrive. As it is, there's plenty of 'organic' development underway.
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