*was going to blog about the city going around in shame today, taking down all the olympic 2012 stickers from the subways*
but, thanks to the neverending wrath of human selfishness and hate, there are better things to talk about, and I'm sure that if I were nihilistic enough to get in the subway today, there would be better things to worry about than this city's olympic loss.
7.07.2005
london, subways
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Having lived in New York for three years (and taught at Hunter College for one of them), I never met a New Yorker who wanted the Olympics to come to town. I remember shortly after Mayor Bloomberg announced the city's inclusion in consideration for the '12 games I taught the class what it means for a project to be privately financed: that it would be publicly repaid. Between that and the hackles of downtown redevelopment, it was an interesting time to be studying urban political economy and teaching "nontraditional" students at night. I hope you don't feel too downtrodden by the Olympic decision; I'd like to see what percentage of host city dwellers can actually attend the games. My guess is that it's not usually high.
funny, when I was at the Pride Parade, all the boys around me were going off about how excited they would be if the Olympics were in the city [insert insensitive comment about rabid gay male sexuality here].
No, I know what you mean. For me, I was more interested in the residuals - expanded subways, new parks, potentially new public swimming pools and other things for the boroughs. Mostly I just wanted another trylon and perisphere, and that's not going to happen, so I let it go...
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