re: #330 Kid A

Bonds for the original Giants Stadium built in 1976 are still owed.

You got it. Stadiums that are long demolished are still being paid for by taxpayers.

Yankee Stadium wasn’t built with taxpayer money, but it was built on city property and payments in lieu of taxes were required, along with building new parks and they built a bunch of parking garages. The team was late in getting the parks done. And the parking garages are costing taxpayers millions for a bailout because there was no need - the new stadium seats more than 10k less than the old one, but they wanted thousands of additional parking spots. That made no sense, but taxpayers are on the hook for that too.

Everywhere you look, teams and their billionaire owners take advantage of municipalities.

John Oliver had a lengthy rant on that the other day.