No Stadium Needed
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Doubtless the MTA vote yesterday to accept the Jets’ $720 million bid to build a new stadium on its 26-acre rail yard on Manhattan’s far West Side and to develop housing adjacent to it will not be the last word on the subject. But what’s clear is that the interest from private developers in the site shows that the stadium is not an essential catalyst for turning those 60 forlorn blocks into a flourishing new Manhattan neighborhood. It may even end up retarding the rebuilding.
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