Union Square Makes it Hurt So Good

Memory, all alone in the moonlight... I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then... More »

And the Other 74% Slept Soundly That Night

At this very moment, heartbroken Jake Duhaime sits at Starbucks with his laptop, incessantly voting in an attempt to show the world his pain. Go ahead, it's okay to snicker. More »

Why We Hate People From the Rest of the Country, Part 593

Finally an answer to the question, who would possibly spend the night in Rockefeller Center to watch on the Jumbotron as the IOC votes in Singapore? Apparently, Jake Duhaime, who is wearing at least five Olympics logos in his Times photo, and who seems despondent over New York's loss. And who's also, it's worth noting, not from New York. More »

Swifter, Higher, Stronger, and Elsewhere

It's the best news we've heard since Shelly Silver, bless his heart, finally killed the West Side Stadium: The IOC knocked New York out of the running for the 2012 Olympics early this morning. And, in an even bigger blow to Dan Doctoroff's ego, our fair city was only the second one eliminated, before even Madrid. More »

A New Week, a New Stadium

Remarkably, there was no new news all week last week about new stadiums in New York City. But the NYC2012 people are making sure that this week won't be left similarly stadiumless. Exciting, yes? Um, no. More »

West Side Stadium, Not Dead Yet

You thought it was over. You thought you could stop paying attention. You thought that, finally, the unholy alliance of Sheldon Silver and Joe Bruno had forced the mayor and the Jets to recognize that nobody wants a football stadium plunked in the middle of Manhattan. But you were wrong. And you should have known better. Because horror-movie villains — and what is the West Side Stadium if not a freakish mutant, determined to slay us all? — never die on the first try. More »

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines

So many stadiums, so little time. West Side is dead (probably), a new Shea is on its way (probably), Ratner is busy bending Brooklyn to his Netsian will, and the Yankees are planning to replace the House That Ruth Built. But none of them is slated to be the biggest stadium in the city. That honor goes to a proposed NASCAR racetrack planned for Staten Island, according to Gotham Gazette.

The track would seat 80,000 fans, watching cars race around a track three-quarters of a mile long, near a new 620,000 square foot big-box retail mall on a 675-acre site.

Apparently NASCAR is popular, we're told. But you can't convince us there are actually 80,000 New Yorkers who watch the stuff. More »

West Side Stadium: We're Hesitant To Use Words Like 'Scam'

Call us crazy, but we have this strange feeling that the West Side Stadium debate is far from over. On Monday, 2 out of 3 members of the New York state s Public Authorities Control Board shot down the luxury sports pipe dream, making it impossible for the Jets to bring their $300 million to Manhattan and thus keeping the 2012 Olympics at bay. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate majority leader Joseph Bruno cast the two vetoes against the stadium; Governor Pataki, the PACB board s third and final member, voted in favor. More »

Bye, West Side Stadium, We Never Knew Thee

Well, frankly, we thought Manhattan had enough synchronized swimming already, thank you very much. As surely everyone on your TV this morning (including Angelina Jolie) has already told you, two old guys in suits we'd never heard of shot down the West Side Stadium plan yesterday. This not only means that the New York Jets will likely continue to play in (agh) New Jersey, but also that the odds that the 2012 Olympics will be here are similar to the odds that we'll see Mayor Bloomberg doing his next radio address lathered up in apple butter. (Though he did date Diana Ross, so you never know.) More »

The West Side Stadium Inches Towards Reality

The West Side Stadium is like Mission Impossible 3: By the time both things happen, Tom Cruise will be dating Dakota Fanning. Nevertheless, a state court has further cleared the way for the behemoth project, the final approval of which is now facing a stalemate in Albany thanks to the opposition of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. More »

Weighing the Odds on NYC2012

Taking note of the bookies' prowess in picking the new Pope, let's see what the sharps have to say about that most wonderful of wonderful dreams, the prospect of New York City hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics. To the wires: More »

Remainders: Don't Worry, You'll Move Before 2012

· The West Side stadium is now one step closer to making hell a New York reality, as the MTA has approved the Jets' (apparently they're our football team?) $720m bid for development rights. You know the crowd at Buster's Garage? Things are about to get a lot more like that. [AP] More »

West Side Stadium: Uglier Than Javits Center

Rounding out its final, desperate bid for the 2012 Olympic Games (Ladbroke odds of NYC gaining the spot are a scant 14/1), the Bloomberg administration has unveiled what looks to be the final plans for the West Side Stadium (or the New York Sports And Convention Center, as it's fancifully called). We still don't understand why anyone would want to invite the world to destroy our island (although sweaty Olympians could be hot), but even more horrifying is the prospect of this atrocious stadium design. It's a big messy-mess; all lines, no form. Kind of like an electric cattle fence to protect us from Jersey. More »