The report, Insider Baseball: How Current and Former PublicOfficials Pitched a Community Shutout for the New York Yankees,also reveals cost increases of nearly $100 million for a totaltaxpayer hit of $655 million.
"The new Yankee Stadium is economic development on steroids:plenty of bravado but void of benefit for New Yorkers," saysBettina Damiani, director of GJNY. "The project's costs keeprising, the community lost its parks and there's no one to holdaccountable for creating new jobs. The only winners are the Yankeesowners and management."
Damiani tells GlobeSt.com that the project is costing taxpayersover half a billion dollars and the costing community 22 acres ofheavily used parks. She adds that public officials involved in theproject directly violate Bloomberg's plaNYC2030, an initiative bythe Bloomberg administration to make the city a moreenvironmentally sustainable city by 2030.
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Natalie Dolce, editor-in-chief of GlobeSt.com and GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum, is responsible for working with editorial staff, freelancers and senior management to help plan the overarching vision that encompasses GlobeSt.com, including short-term and long-term goals for the website, how content integrates through the company’s other product lines and the overall quality of content. Previously she served as national executive editor and editor of the West Coast region for GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum, and was responsible for coverage of news and information pertaining to that vital real estate region. Prior to moving out to the Southern California office, she was Northeast bureau chief, covering New York City for GlobeSt.com. Her background includes a stint at InStyle Magazine, and as managing editor with New York Press, an alternative weekly New York City paper. In her career, she has also covered a variety of beats for M magazine, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, FashionLedge.com, and Co-Ed magazine. Dolce has also freelanced for a number of publications, including MSNBC.com and Museums New York magazine.
