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>Current laws, for example, include a tax that goes directly to the Javits Convention Center — a place scant numbers of New Yorkers have ever visited. And yet
by marquis 13y ago
>Current laws, for example, include a tax that goes directly to the Javits Convention Center — a place scant numbers of New Yorkers have ever visited.
And yet which brings thousands and thousands of visitors to New York (with spending and lodging money) yearly. Move the Javits Center to Jersey and the surrounding hotels, restaurants and immeneties suddenly have very little reason to be there.
- bbanyc 13y agoIn theory that's how convention centers should work. In practice, the Javits Center is isolated by the surrounding railyards and few desirable amenities have sprung up in the area. (This may finally change in a few years' time with the opening of the Hudson Yards redevelopment and the western extension of the 7 subway - so of course it's been proposed to tear down Javits and build a new convention center at the even more isolated Aqueduct Racetrack site. Ugh.)
- marquis 13y agoAh, I didn't know it was proposed to relocate. What would be the benefit to having a convention centre away from built-up areas where it's even harder to get to (or get away from..)