Mayor Appeals To MSG Owners
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Can Mayor Bloomberg use some holiday cheer to find common ground with the owners of Madison Square Garden, the Dolan family, who have been leading the charge against his West Side stadium development plan?
“I trust, in the end, they’d be with the holiday spirit,” Mr. Bloomberg said yesterday as he helped pass out winter coats in an annual drive. He asked James and Charles Dolan to “end this craziness where they are trying to hurt the very city that is responsible for their success.”
Mr. Bloomberg and the Dolans have been in a very public tete-a-tete over the West Side stadium plan, which the mayor favors. The Dolans, who own the Knicks and the Rangers in addition to the Garden and Cablevision, have said they would support the stadium if it didn’t have a roof, but have been steadfast against the current plan. The $1.4-billion stadium would need $600 million in city and state monies to build a platform over the Hudson rail yards and pay for the stadium’s roof. The Jets have offered $800 million of their own money. Cablevision has been behind a roster of television ads accusing Mr. Bloomberg of wasting city funds on the West Side plan.