We here at the Jersey City Desk cannot believe Mayor Steve Fulop, for one minute, would support this obscene idea to let a New England-area development group right down by the Goldman Sachs Building put up a garish 95 story casino, with an adjoining 107,500-seat motor sports stadium that could devastate Liberty State Park and make a very bad driving situation much much worse.
First off, the Mayor seems to have drunk the "This project will create a kabillion jobs!" Kool-Aid which of course is never true. Fulop sounds like the only reason to oppose this heinous plan would be the track: "I still need more information regarding the racetrack to be confident it will not harm Liberty State Park. This development would create 25,000 jobs and over $5 billion of investment."
So as you can see which side the mayor is already on, former investment banker that he is.
Johnny's not the only one who loves Jersey City that is sounding the alarms:
"It would seem that inevitable traffic jams would severely negatively impact the public access to Liberty State Park as well as tourist access to the ferries that go to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty," FOLSP President Sam Pesin said. "We ask that Mayor Fulop demand comprehensive traffic and environmental impact studies alongside public hearings on this project."
This plan MUST be stopped Jersey City, by ANY means necessary. Look, the mayor has already checked out. He's already hiring staff for the very purpose of running for governor. When Fulop does run for governor he'd love to point to a big shiny thing. Trying to develop underdeveloped portions of his city won't tickle voters at the polls. Swimming the Hudson River won't make him Governor. No, instead Fulop would love to show them a giant shiny building with great video and pictures of smiling people around it, and of the track not causing traffic issues etc.
Also Jersey City, from what we know of the Jersey City Planning Commission is that regardless of which safeguards are put in place, despite what the developers are told, they will just go back to the Jersey City Planning Commission and whine and snivel and the JCPC will hold them close and say "It's OK, do what you want, we have been giving no shits about the people who pay us now for decades."
It's up to US Jersey City, this project must be stopped right f-ing now. Thanks to the current governor you can just gamble your money away on an iPad from the comfort of your own home. To those of you elsewhere in New Jersey that might want a big casino across from NYC, when you come to Jersey City and pay taxes you can have a say. Until then just shut your talk holes.
Peter Stuyvesant does not approve.
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