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As pointed out below, it is entirely commercial.

has a plan for redeveloping it, but it's complicated:

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial/willets-point-losing-to-citi-field-1.10941234

Nobody lives in Willets point, it has been a car repair/ junkyard for years.

The neighborhoods near Citi Fields are Flushing and Corona.

One is mainly Asian and the other Hispanic. Not bad places to live.

The OP is bullshit.

Do you actually know that's a barrio?

the pic from Cuba.

I was just talking about the misrepresentation of Willets Point as an improvised hellhole.

Context.

"this might be bullshit about Cuba, so let's counter it with bullshit about New York?"

it was presented as such.

A picture of Citi Field like I ted and then showing how you could just show Willets Point would do that. Also more pics of havanna to show more of the neighborhood.

But that's not what the OP showed. So i don't buy it.

But yet they have nearly 100% literacy, universal health care, lower levels of extreme poverty, they spend more on education than USA, and about the same level of life expectancy.

Wealth is overrated if it just belongs to the 1%.

oh, wait...

10 thousand organic urban farms because they could not get pesticides in the 90's -

I fear the US multinational corp will bring about some negative and destructive practices.

No truer words were ever written.

but for some reason we always have money for a new football stadium or basketball arena. And a 30-year lease sweetheart deal for Pimplefaced Joel Osteen (who is not a trained minister) on the former Summit. That's what it was called when it was Houston's basketball arena.

I hate sports. Always have. The only time I go to basketball arenas is for major rock concerts.

Though they did manage to tear down all the slums within a few blocks of the new stadium.

than the one I know...

But that could have been a similar photo. (Or at least it could have 10 years ago; I hear near southeast has pulled a Columbia Heights recently.)

but thought it was centered a little east of the Stadium. The Grand Concourse, which was once to the Bronx what Park Avenue is to Manhattan, would seem a likely candidate, though.

the USTA Stadiums and one of NYC's grandest parks, Flushing Meadows. That's Citi Field near the top.

OP is complete crap.

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The OP is absolutely not full of shit; those pics are what Willets Point looks like. Hell, you can see Citi Field from the first one. And, yes, it literally does not have sewers.

long before Citi Field was
No one lives there, it's an auto repair area.
And the city has looked at things like affordable housing to go there.
In fact a big new mall with luxury apts. was going there after a Bloomberg deal, but thankfully it was stopped.
This does not show poverty, it shows commerce.

It's all auto-body places, muffler, tires, chop shops, etc. Anyone who has been to the stadium knows that.

It's where you go.

I don't know what the photo from Cuba is suppose to show, that the Stadium is in the middle of Havana? So? That photo is probably bullshit too.


But the one of Willets Point is misinformation about the area. Arguing something is bullshit by putting out more bullshit doean't work.

Detroit has a lot of issues. But it is not typical of the rest of the country.

And if life is so great in Cuba, why are Cubans fleeing to come here? Why do they risk their lives on homemade rafts to get to Florida?

If only we had more.

Good on the viewers to point out the irony to ESPN.

....it is a commercial/industrial area, not a residential area. The official population of Willets Point in 2011 was 1 (ONE!)

There are sidewalks and sewers. Remember, it's right on the Flushing River and western end of LI Sound, so after a heavy rainstorm it floods, just like many other areas near waterways.

It is also undergoing a 3-billion dollar redevelopment project.

That is just the height of hypocrisy. The USA has massive problems with poverty, and especially childhood poverty. Nothing to brag about here.

But hey, Alex Rodiguez makes over 20 million for playing a game! USA! USA!

Absolutely shameful.

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not near a stadium but land o goshens the area looked pretty damn sad

think that businesses need sidewalks and sewers???

Who owns ESPN.....Must be owned by a fucking Right wing corporation....

There are two reasons cities build stadiums in the worst shitholes they have: they can get the immense amount of land you need for a stadium cheap on the bad side of town, and a stadium can be a catalyst to revitalize an area. Oh...and the stadium ESPN is bitching about was built by Batista in 1946.

…look exactly like refugee camps.

Skid Row in LA looks like a 3rd world country.

Cuba has 98% literacy and universal health care and a vibrant culture. Our middle class families can't afford a good education for their kids or health care. So who is really poor?

Dear ESPN, take your holier than thou attitude and shove it up your ass in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

poverty in america isn't near what it is third world countries! the poor here are rich by third world standards!

Didn't think so...

Cuba's no dystopia, it's almost as highly developed as much of the US. Including inequalities, mostly caused by the embargo and need for overseas currency.

There are worse areas of blight all over America, some near bright shiny sports stadiums, some not.. all a product of a failed free market, capitalist system that invests in weapons of war rather than its own infrastructure or people. When was the last time our mainstream media did an in depth look at poverty and substandard living conditions in America?

As for Willets Point, that is typical of many areas of NYC. I remember my aunt and uncle lived in Brooklyn near Flatbush..I loved running around with my aunt, one area all furniture, the next all appliances, etc. Specialty blocks, like this one with auto everything. but we never would go there.. who needed a car in Brooklyn?