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Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

G-Fafif Nov 15 2022 06:02 PM

A new stadium grows in Flushing, to be built for NYCFC soccer. https://nyti.ms/3hKedTt

MFS62 Nov 16 2022 08:25 AM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Nice, if you like those other two sports. I'd get more excited hearing about a stadium complex they're building to bring the Jets back to Queens that could also accommodate tennis and soccer. Later

A Boy Named Seo Nov 16 2022 11:04 AM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Curious to know more about the housing angle in the deal... but NYCFC finally has a home! And maybe this means Queensboro FC finally becomes a team?

Ceetar Nov 16 2022 11:05 AM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Curious to know more about the housing angle in the deal... but NYCFC finally has a home! And maybe this means Queensboro FC finally becomes a team? they'll cut it at the last minute I'm sure.

A Boy Named Seo Nov 16 2022 11:07 AM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

If it's largely upscale apartments/condos, it probably wouldn't do much to help residents except provide more inventory, but if they bake somewhat more affordable housing into it, I'd be very intrigued on if/how they pull it off.

Johnny Lunchbucket Nov 16 2022 12:11 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

QFC has a stadium on the Queens college campus, I think. Having a bigger league a few miles away isn't going to help them when they get started this spring

A Boy Named Seo Nov 16 2022 12:29 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Bummer for QAnon FC. I'm not even sure if they'll kick a ball at this point? MLS/USL has existed in the same market but the USL side rarely fares well, if they survive.

Frayed Knot Nov 16 2022 01:02 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

"100% privately financed, plus affordable housing, plus hotel..." -- sez NYC's new-(ish) Mayor.

Ceetar Nov 16 2022 01:11 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Frayed Knot wrote: "100% privately financed, plus affordable housing, plus hotel..." -- sez NYC's new-(ish) Mayor. so probably anything but, if it's coming from that scumbag.

Johnny Lunchbucket Nov 16 2022 01:21 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Affordable housing is always a negotiation with developers who cannot get financing to make it worth it. Sane fight is happening right here in my hood where a big project would take up 3 blocks mostly for unaffordable housing

Ceetar Nov 16 2022 01:28 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Always reads like it's added to proposals like "GMO free!" and "Organic!". A smokescreen to get the other stuff approved and then somehow it's never as much, or as affordable, or buildable as it was pitched.

Johnny Lunchbucket Nov 16 2022 03:39 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/QueensboroFC/status/1592936052016418817[/TWEET] hmmm

A Boy Named Seo Nov 16 2022 04:44 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

That doesn't sound real promising. The comments are predictably twitter.

Centerfield Nov 16 2022 09:37 PM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

I'm reading that it's 100% affordable housing. Will be interesting to see if that holds. This will be amazing if it all comes together.

Frayed Knot Nov 17 2022 04:46 AM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

So where has NYCFC* been playing their games? My mind associates them with the MFYs * Francesa's total befuddlement upon learning this name during an interview with someone promoting the then soon-to-be-launched team was hilarious. He was expecting to learn this new team's nickname but couldn't get his head around this foreign concept. 'What, the team name is just a bunch of initials?'

Bob Alpacadaca Nov 17 2022 06:02 AM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Looks like a great project. tremendous upgrade over the Iron Triangle, and might create an area that will be bustling year-round. And to do it without public money? Nice job, Mayor Adams!

Lefty Specialist Nov 17 2022 06:44 AM Re: Baseball! Tennis! Soccer!

Devil's in the details. But anything's an improvement over the chop shops.