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Comrie to consider changes
for Belmont redevelopment
BY BILL PARRY
Is the $1.18 billion Belmont
Park redevelopment
plan in trouble now that
state Sen. Leroy Comrie
has replaced his colleague
Michael Gianaris as the
nominee to the Public Authorities
Control Board?
Not necessarily, said
Comrie, whose district
encompasses a section of
the park.
“I’m not critical of the
plan but I am hopeful there
are some issues that can
be resolved,” Comrie said.
“I am honored that the
leader has recommended
me and I hope I can represent
our conference well, if
the Governor accepts the
recommendation.”
Senate Majority Leader
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
withdrew Gianaris’ name
from nomination to the
three-member panel —
which could have given the
Amazon opponent partial
veto power over the deal
— just over a week after
e-commerce giant walked
away from its plan to build
an HQ2 campus in Long Island
City, and its promise
to create 25,000 jobs over
the next 10 years.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
fumed that the Amazon
rejection was the “greatest
tragedy” he saw during his
time in government during
an interview Friday
in which he blamed Gianaris
by name for leading
the opposition to the project.
A day later, Comrie’s
name was put forward by
Stewart-Cousins in a letter
to Cuomo.
“Through comments
you have made to others in
public meetings and interviews
it has become clear
that you do not intend to
confirm this appointment
to the PACB,” Stewart-
Cousins wrote. “To ensure
the Senate Majority is properly
represented, I hereby
formally recommend
Senator Leroy Comrie as
the Senate representative
on the Public Authorities
State Sen. Leroy Comrie has replaced state Sen. Michael
Gianaris as the nominee to the Public Authorities Control
Board. File Photo
Control Board.”
Cuomo spokesman Rich
Azzopardi responded in a
tweet saying, “Great, but
it’s a day late and $27 billion
short,” implying the
deal, and the projected $27
billion in city and state tax
revenues over 25 years,
could have been saved
if she had withdrawn
Gianaris’s name earlier.
In a telephone interview
Tuesday from Albany,
Comrie seemed surprised
at speculation that he
was opposed to the Belmont
Park redevelopment
project that would include
a 19,000-seat hockey arena
for the New York Islanders,
a 250-room hotel and
a 435,000 square foot retail
complex adjacent to the
racetrack’s grandstand.
“I applaud the concept
of the project,” Comrie
said. “I do have considerable
concerns about traffic
and transportation issues
but I’m very positive things
can be worked out.”
Comrie has insisted
publicly that any final
project must include a
full-service Long Island
Rail Road station instead
of limited service at the
current facility, with the
cost of the new station
passed on to the developer.
He has also called
for a year-round Park and
Ride for commuters at the
6,000 space parking lot,
as well as a significant
expansion of the Cross
Island Expressway.
“I am well aware that
Elmont has not had any
development programs for
years and they are very
supportive of this project,
but I am also aware that
on the western edge of Belmont
Park, in my neighborhoods
of Cambria Heights
and Queens Village traffic
congestion and a full service
LIRR station are very
serious issues.”
Reach reporter Bill Parry
by e-mail at bparry@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone
at (718) 260–4538.
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