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| Former names | New York Sports and Convention Center |
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| Location | West Side, Manhattan, New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°45′17″N 74°00′15″W / 40.754749°N 74.004082°W |
| Owner | New York State |
| Capacity | 75,000 (85,000 for Olympics) |
| Construction | |
| Built | Never Broke Ground |
| Opened | Planned for 2008 |
| Construction cost | Over $1 billion |
| Architect | Kohn Pedersen Fox |
| Tenants | |
| New York Jets | |
West Side Stadium (also known as the New York Sports and Convention Center) was a proposed football and Olympic stadium to be built on a platform over the rail yards on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City.[1]
The stadium would have been an all-weather facility with a retractable roof, allowing it to be used as either a 200,000-square-foot (18,600 m2) indoor convention hall, or an 85,000-seat (75,000 post-Olympics) indoor-outdoor sporting event stadium. It was to be the new home for the New York Jets of the National Football League, who at the time of the proposal played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and were junior tenants to the New York Giants. The stadium was to have served as the centerpiece of New York City's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but, after heated debate, the proposal was defeated a month before the International Olympic Committee was to make its decision.
In the football off-season the building would have been used as an adjunct to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for conventions and as a replacement for Madison Square Garden. It was promoted by then New York Governor George Pataki, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Congressman Charles Rangel, but opposed by most of the local elected officials representing the area. The centerpiece of the city's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, the stadium would have been part of a larger project to revitalize a long-underdeveloped area, including expansions of the Javits Center and the New York City Subway's 7 service. It was going to host Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 along with a college bowl game with a Big East team to be known as the Big Apple Bowl.[2][3] It is now part of the site of the Hudson Yards development.
- ^ Horowitz, Craig (June 21, 2004). "Stadium of Dreams". New York.
- ^ Brown, Clifton (March 24, 2005). "N.F.L. Owners Vote to Give the Jets a Super Bowl". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Big Apple Bowl Brings College Football Back to New York" (Press release). New York City Sports Commission. June 14, 2004. Retrieved 2009-08-07.