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The New York Times has it all wrong about stadiums (and politics)

Deconstructing Binyamin Appelbaum’s opinion piece

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Brendan Dentino
Jun 01, 2025
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The New York Times ran a piece by editorial board member Binyamin Appelbaum on Wednesday titled, “Sports Stadiums Are Monuments to the Poverty of Our Ambitions.”

It contends that building sports stadiums comes at the expense of new infrastructure and housing and better public services, and it implicates big city (and Democra…

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