Long a part of the plan to use construction of a new Yankee Stadium to help aid in the revitalization of the South Bronx, the Metro-North stop was nearly discarded when the MTA and the City could not agree to a funding plan. In May 2007, two years before the projected opening date, though, the City agreed to pay $38 million in construction costs as long as the MTA footed the bill for the other $53 million. The Yankees, prime beneficiaries of the station, contributed nothing.
Prime beneficiaries of the station, numerous tax breaks, and a whole bunch of city and state cash flew into that gilded piece of crap and they can’t even foot some of the bill for a station on a commuter rail designed to bring fans to its games?
Effing wow.
And people wonder why some of us hate the Yankees.
