Bloomberg: "We don't have a lot of parkland in New York City, and I think a lot of people would probably object."

Bloomberg thinks a stadium in the park is a bad idea! Yeah! Great news, right?

Unfortunately, that's how he feels about a Jet Stadium in Flushing Meadows Park. He doesn't seem to feel the same way about Yankee Stadium and Macombs Dam Park. That seems okay to him.

In a Reuters article titled "NYC mayor doubts Queens park would do for Jets" "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg cast doubt on the latest plan to bring the Jets football team home from New Jersey, citing likely objections to building on parkland in the borough of Queens." (Click headline to read) The article continues:

"Noting that the state would have to approve letting the Jets build on Flushing Meadows Park, Bloomberg, on his weekly radio show, added: "I'd love to have them in the city. Whether that's the right place, we'll have to see.

"We don't have a lot of parkland in New York City, and I think a lot of people would probably object."

"The Republican mayor, however, has supported the Yankees baseball team's plan to build a new stadium in the Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx. A mayoral spokesman was not immediately available to explain the mayor's different approach to the two teams."

It should be pointed out that Flushing Meadows is muuuuch larger than Macombs Dam, thus should more readily be able to absorb a stadium. Also, a stadium in Queens would not so negatively impact a residential community as one will in the Bronx.

So why the double standard, Bloomberg? What is different about the people in Queens that makes you so worried about their objections?