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Wow. Check out Ralph Nader's letter to George Steinbrenner. For your reading pleasure, a snippet: At your invitation-only "groundbreaking" on August 16, you professed that "It's a pleasure to give this to you people," as if you were giving to south Bronx residents, the taxpayers and the fans, rather than taking from them. Perhaps "you people" were the many compliant politicians who fell all over themselves to approve your plans, virtually skipping thorough public debate and process altogether. Or maybe "you people" were the well-connected developers eager to get their hands on another neighborhood. Either way, I'm sure they are all dreaming of securing further deals behind the closed doors of their luxury suites at a new stadium.
But what you are "giving" to south Bronx families and residents is less opportunity for their recreation, more pollution, and unease over developers' unknown intentions for their neighborhood. You have seized their centrally-located parkland and are reportedly in the process of cutting down nearly 400 mature trees to make way for a new stadium. In a dubious proposal to offset this loss of parkland, other park spaces are to be created in three years. But these are scattered farther away -- much of it across a highway -- with little value and utility to the same residents. You're welcome. And we encourage you to check out the whole thing.
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