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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! New York Mayor Ponders Selling Brooklyn Bridge February 25, 2002 08:00 PM ET Email this article Printer friendly version NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unbelievable perhaps, but New York City's new mayor wants to sell you the historic Brooklyn Bridge. In fact, he wants to sell three other bridges in America's biggest city -- anything to raise cash in a city reeling from the economic effects of the Sept. 11 attacks coupled with the first U.S. recession in 10 years. Michael Bloomberg, elected mayor last year just weeks after the destruction of the World Trade Center, inherited a nearly $5 billion hole in his $40 billion spending plan, which an official in his administration said could be partly filled through the sale of the four bridges. "The proposals (to sell the bridges) are under consideration," Bloomberg spokesman Jordan Barowitz said on Monday, declining to elaborate. Selling the bridges is likely to generate as much opposition from elected officials in Brooklyn and Queens as the mayor's budget proposal two weeks ago to charge tolls on the bridges, which are now free. The Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge all span the East River and connect the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens to Manhattan. The toll plan could raise up to $800 million a year by 2006. While it was not immediately clear how much the city might get from the sale of the four bridges, an arm of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority would be the likely buyer, Bloomberg's spokesman said. An MTA spokesman said the agency had no comment on the Bloomberg plan to sell the bridges. New York City's tax collections took a severe hit after the Sept. 11 attacks, which came at a time when the U.S. economy was already slowing after a record 10 years of economic growth. The air attacks not only killed nearly 3,000 people, they also led to 110,000 job losses and forced thousands of businesses to shut down. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
