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Commentary : Does NY really need more stadiums?

Does New York need another stadium? New York needs another stadium as much as I need a new pair of shoes. This is just another rich business man making another multi-million dollar deal regardless of the consequences to the people he is supposed to be representing. Let us not forget that Bloomberg’s credentials for becoming a mayor were strictly business. The rich get richer while the poor get f*cked. Excuse my vulgarity but I was taught to curse when nothing better fits.

In my opinion we should put our focus back on the WTC site anyway. It seems to have been left as second fiddle to the stadium and the Olympics. Never mind that the entire design has been reduced to engineer design project. The real reason this project has been put on the back burner is that it results into no money for the mayor and his financial backers.

As far as housing is concerned, unless we are talking about housing for the elite, (such as the Trump Towers) you will not see it constructed in NYC any time soon. Affordable housing is just not profitable for these corporations that own everything. The bottom line is money, how much will “they” make with as little investment as possible. Human mean absolutely nothing to them, it is all about the mighty dollar, the dollar bill, a monetary means that has religious and Masonic overtones throughout. I’ll stop right there before I get really theoretical.

I think if we as architects are to make a true difference we need to find a forum where our voices can be heard, really heard. We also need a means to begin to demonstrate that not all things are about money. We need to perhaps begin our own “Mockbee-like” studio. However since we are in the tri-state area we would have to call it the urban studio or perhaps the sub-urban studio. There are other things we as architects need to do, but those are other topics that will come in time.

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