NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- According to a New York Times article on Sunday, Mayor Mike Bloomberg's administration may have pushed hard for the use of a large luxury suite at the new Yankee Stadium.
The paper claims that in e-mail conversations between the Yankees and the mayor's office show the mayor's aides giving 250 additional parking spaces and three new billboards on the Major Deegan Expressway to the Yankees for a larger suite and free food.
The parking spaces, which were originally planned for public parking, would be given to the Yankees for the private use of their players and officials.
The Yankees can also keep whatever revenue is generated from the three billboards.
Westchester Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky released the e-mails between Yankees Executives and Mayor Bloomberg.
Brodsky calls into question whether or not taxpayers were protected from the city's dealings with the team.
In an e-mail response to 1010 WINS, Andrew Brent from the mayor's office stated, "Many cities get a box for public employees in newly built stadiums and the other teams, including the Mets and minor league clubs, already give this city a box."
"While the option to use a box was just one part of a larger negotiation that yielded the largest ever private investment in the South Bronx, it was important to us that the Yankees not be exempt from such gives or treated differently than other teams."
He also says that a decision regarding whether or not the Bloomberg administration will actually take the box is yet to be made.
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