Andrea Bernstein

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Mayor Bloomberg is shrugging off Madison Square Garden's lawsuit. It seeks to block the MTA from transfering the development rights for the Hudson Yards to the New York Jets.

The Mayor and his allies are downplaying the lawsuit, saying they expected it all along.

BLOOMBERG: If you ...

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The MTA has unamimously approved the Jets offer to build a West Side Stadium over their Hudson Yards Site.

The losing bidder Cablevision has cried foul, as have mayoral candidates, and West Side residents.

Joining us now to discuss the latest is WNYC's Andrea Bernstein.

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In New York, Olympic supporters are hoping that the games would bring needed impetus to create new parks and waterfront neighborhoods. Paris is using its Olympic bid to promote a vision of a model 21st century city. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein took a look at the ...

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BLOOMBERG: We will transform a thousand square miles of our city into new or enhanced park lands we will create whole new venues along the rivers that we for so long walled our selves off from…we will create new neighborhoods where nobody goes and there’s no ...

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The developer of the proposed Brooklyn Nets Arena will be asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax free bonds to construct the $500 million arena.

The developers say the project will bring 12,000 construction jobs and 8,000 permanent jobs, as well as 2000 units of ...

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Delegates of the International Olympic Committee will be visiting the proposed sites for 17 sports as part of it four-day evaluation of the city's 2012 Olympic bid.

The evalutation committee will make nine stops, including the site for the proposed West Side stadium. There, they'll be ...

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Just days before the International Olympic Committee comes to New York, the Mayor's plans to build a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan has received a punch in the stomach. The MTA said late yesterday it would seek bids for its West Side sites. ...

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City Lawyers yesterday filed papers with the state's highest court, asking it to consider an expedited appeal of last week's decision legalizing gay marriage in New York. The move comes as gays and lesbians in New York and San Francisco are criticizing Mayor Bloomberg's decision ...

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This week, WNYC has been looking at the tensions that arise from have Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Daniel Doctoroff also run the city’s Olympic bid, NYC 2012. Today, WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein looks at ...

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The New York Jets have unveiled a new design for their proposed West Side Stadium. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

The Jets are furiously fighting to win public opinion in these last weeks before the stadium faces its final approval. Architect William Pederson says the ...

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If the Bloomberg administration has its way, seven years and five months from now, the Olympics theme will be the theme of New York City. Between now and then, key parts of New York’s landscape will be transformed, from the West Side of Manhattan to ...

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The City Council is expected to overwhelmingly approve a rezoning plan for the far West Side of Manhattan today. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.

The plan includes new office towers, parks, housing and an extension of the number seven line. The city council says the plan will ...

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Last night, hundreds of New Yorkers packed a huge hearing room in the basement of the Javits convention center. The occasion was the one and only official hearing on whether New York state should approve a deal to build a football stadium on the far ...

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New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer's crusades against everything from corruption on Wall Street to a pretzel vendor company underpaying its workers, have earned him A-1 headlines. Now, Spitzer has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for Governor in 2006 and will NOT ...

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President Bush has tapped former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to run the Department of Homeland Security. Kerik edged out the other front runners, including former FEMA director Joe Allbaugh and Homeland Security Under Secretary Asa Hutchingson. We hear from WNYC's Andrea Bernstein.

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An independent planning group has issued a study saying there are more alternatives for the West Side than a hole in the ground or a football stadium. The Regional Plan Association study says a mix of parks, housing, and commercial space would knit together the ...

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Former State Senator Guy Velella will NOT be returning to Rikers Island to complete his year-long sentence until at least mid-December, an appeals court judge ruled yesterday. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein has this update on the case.

It seemed like this classic case of New York corruption ...

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The battle over the West Side stadium is hitting new decibel levels. Mayor Bloomberg is increasingly criticizing Cablevision, the company that owns Madison Square Garden for its anti-stadium ad campaign. But the Jets say relations between their team and Cablevision were once much warmer. WNYC's ...

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This morning about 250 mourners huddled under a persistent rain at a memorial service at Newport Avenue and Beach 131st Street in the Rockaways for the victims of American Airlines flight 587 to Santo Domingo. The flight crashed at 9:16 am, three years ago today. ...