Yay NYC lost!!!!

[winneythepooh7]

The Olympic bid!!!!!! Despite what the media portrays, I personally think it would have been beyond idiotic to have the Olympics here, even though I hope to be faraway from NYC by 2012.

[mishl982]

NYC is already crazy as it is. I couldn't imagine how much more hectic it would be if they hosted the Olympics!

I hear it's down to Paris and London now.

[winneythepooh7]

London got it. Good for them. Yes, I have major issues with them having it here in NY. For one, security is not great to begin with here. I also think that all that money they are going to put into the Olympics could be better used for human services here, and something we could all benefit from, affordable housing!

[Bugsey34]

I am happy too. I just think we don't need it. Think of the Republican Convention, everyone left the city to tourists because it was just too crazy. Their slogan is "there will be room for everyone" but, um, there's not.

[natbumpo]

I'm just glad France didn't get it....

[Morgan81]

Honestly I think NYC could of used it.
Sure the two weeks of the games would be nuts but that wouldn't be for seven years and by then gas will be so expensive that only 5 people in the US could afford it.
Seriously, the improvements that would of come with it are much needed and something still has to be done about it, I just think the games would have lit a torch under everyone's ass.... so to speak.

[jrwilheim]

Well, judging by how little the Republican Convention last year affected my day-to-day life (which is to say, not at all), I don't imagine the Olympics would have been any worse. I'd ride the subway to and from work every day and probably wouldn't be aware of it except for the signage everywhere or whatever.

I doubt that the money that would have been spent on the Olympics could do anything about the housing problem in New York, which I think is mostly caused by rent control and regulations that make it harder for people to build or convert existing buildings to residential units. I mean, they're converting the Plaza Hotel to luxury condos, and the developers had to spend $750,000,000 for the hotel itself, and then another $300,000,000 just litigating to get a zoning change so that it could be residential property. With prices like that, they can't afford for the building to be anything BUT luxury housing. And it's like tht all over the city, both in Manhattan and the Boroughs.

[Stormshadow]

Thank God we didn't get it. As if it weren't a target for terrorism already.

[joneshen]

If a layman can sneak in with a homemade bomb in Atlanta, I'd hate to think of what the possibilities are.

Then again, nothing's happened at Times Square during New Year's, so who knows.

[Stormshadow]

I'm sure security isn't ANYTHING of what it used to be under Giuliani.