The Mall of New York

As someone who has dropped shiteloads of money at Ikea, I now wonder about the wisdom of dropping a 346,000-square-foot new store in the Brooklyn Navy Yards.

"A Fairway supermarket is under construction near the Ikea site, while Bloomberg administration officials have been formulating a plan that would put a cruise ship terminal nearby and potentially move the Brooklyn Brewery, complete with a beer garden, to a neighboring pier," reads the Times article today.

So gone soon will be the relatively creepy area by the waterfront? Now, is this really a good thing? First a Lowes and a Home Depot, now these big boxes. Urban renewal probably shouldn't equal chain stores.

But even worse, Bloomberg has invited the Country Music Awards to be held at Madison Square Garden--the first time they'll he held outside of Nashville. He says they will bring $30 million to the city. Fine, but country in New York?

The RNC? A football stadium?
Country music?