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Posted by MATHA531 on Fri Oct 19 16:08:50 2012, in response to Re: Polo grounds shuttle was to be connected to Lenox Line, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Fri Oct 19 14:59:36 2012. ...you see very knowledgeable about this as I am and I've spent the last 55 years of my life being very bitter towards O'Maslley; this resentment has only abated a bit because I still feel what he did was wrong and greedy as the Dodgers were the biggest money makers in baseball at the time (even more so than the Yankees). Having said that, and having read every book and article that has cvome out about this, I have changed my view point a bit about Moses and I indicated above. Moses was the biggest spokesman for an anti Brooklyn Dodger feeling as you indicated whicvh existed throughout many levels of the NYC government including Mayor Wagner and the rest of his Manhattan centric city administration. Also it is a fact that condemning the land at Atlantic/Flatbush would have cost, according to Moses, $10,000.000 in 1957 dollars and at some point, a ramp would have haqd to have been built off the BQE in terms of the coming of agee of the automobile.If the St. Louis Brown who for a long time had an eye on Los Angeles, even after the aborted attempt in 1941, had ever been able t5o get themselves to Los Angeles, the offer is never made, probably, by the LA cit government and then what? I, for one, have never thought it was a big deal Flushing Meadow was not in Brooklyhn. The boundary between Brooklyn and Queens, of course, is totally artifricial except in the extreme western part where the Newtown Creek forms the boundary. It was simply based on the silly way some Dutch towns were laid out in the 17th century. Federal court cases involving Queens are heard in Brooklyhn Federal Court (as are those in Nassau and Suffolk counties). If O'Malley does not have the wicvked offer by the LA city government, chancdes are he long since moved to Flushing and the team would be playing there today robably still as the Brooklyhn Dodgers! To me, O'Malley's greed is still the #1 problem not as much Moses and the rest of the Manhattan centric NYC government which of curse is still with us to this day! |
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