Why hasn't New York City hosted the Summer Olympics?

[castletonsnob]

Why hasn’t New York City ever hosted the Summer Olympics? It’s one of the biggest and most famous cities in the world, and an international hub, with people and businesses from all over the world.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

NYC did not have the capacity to host an Olympics

Over the last few years they are making attempts to clear space for a future bid I think in like 2036 or 2040. Long Island I believe is where they want to have the village and I think they plan to go to Queens to build an Olympic stadium there as well

As someone who lives in the City, they probably have a better chance of actually hosting a games now compared to years before but it will still be hard. NY state in general can handle it but NYC creates problems

[Push R Truth]

I'll make the argument that when you are already the center of so many things the Olympics will only slow you down and cause problems.

[Cyno]

Speaking as someone who lives in the NYC Metro, I really don't want them here. It'd be a logistical nightmare not just for the city, but the surrounding communities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

I still don't know how even bigger cities like Beijing and Tokyo managed them.

[Push R Truth]

Mar 23, 2022 13:51:46 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Speaking as someone who lives in the NYC Metro, I really don't want them here. It'd be a logistical nightmare not just for the city, but the surrounding communities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

I still don't know how even bigger cities like Beijing and Tokyo managed them.

I want to say that Beijing and Tokyo had a lot of stuff that was hours away from the city. But that could also just be my own hallucinations.

[S-Chrome]

Strictly speaking as a New Yorker, it's because the city is a piece of crap.

The other reason is that there really isn't enough wide open spaces to host the Olympics. When NYC made the short list in '05, all the Olympic locales were spread out and appeared rather sloppy by design. An Olympic Village in Queens, the Olympic Square on the Far West Side of Manhattan, for example. And somewhere in between, a bustling city with millions of people running around at any given hour of the day.

[fg]

Remember the disaster in the NYC area that was Super Bowl 48 (without the Giants/Jets) because the area didn’t do enough preparing despite the fact that they had 3 1/2 YEARS? The Olympics could be much worse.

[Cyno]

Mar 23, 2022 13:57:31 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Mar 23, 2022 13:51:46 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Speaking as someone who lives in the NYC Metro, I really don't want them here. It'd be a logistical nightmare not just for the city, but the surrounding communities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

I still don't know how even bigger cities like Beijing and Tokyo managed them.

I want to say that Beijing and Tokyo had a lot of stuff that was hours away from the city. But that could also just be my own hallucinations.

IIRC, Tokyo is a lot larger geographically than NYC since the Tokyo Metropolis isn't just a city, but an entire prefecture. So you've got the 23 special wards that make up what's typically thought of as Tokyo (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Chiyoda, etc), as well as 26 cities and a few towns to the west of those wards. But they did have some events in neighboring prefectures and cities (mostly in the Saitama, Yokohama, and Chiba areas). And some of the soccer games were as far away as Sendai and Sapporo.

[DiBiase is Good]

Mar 23, 2022 12:21:15 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

I'll make the argument that when you are already the center of so many things the Olympics will only slow you down and cause problems.

That was a fear for a lot of people with the 2012 London Games. Didn’t actually make that much of a difference.

[horsemen4ever]

Because it is freaking cold here.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

City is too cluttered, too busy. Adding another hundred thousand people to a congested metropolis is a nightmare

[MrElijah]

Mar 23, 2022 13:51:46 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Speaking as someone who lives in the NYC Metro, I really don't want them here. It'd be a logistical nightmare not just for the city, but the surrounding communities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

I still don't know how even bigger cities like Beijing and Tokyo managed them.

The NYC Marathon, that runs on a Sunday is a damn nightmare to navigate. The Olympics? Good luck with that shit. The only good thing would be the IOC dealing with the MTA.

[VRM: LET'S GO BLUESHIRTS!!]

It may be a hub, but it's also a hub made up of mostly ISLANDS. Not to mention, what venues would you use for what events? Where would you have your main "Olympic Stadium" and Olympic Village that doesn't step on someone's toes or is readily accessible to whatever venue the athletes need? How would you provide security and transportation for all of the extra people in addition to everyday NYC metro traffic. It may somehow work on paper, but knowing the area, it won't work. Philly or Boston would sooner get the chance before NYC, barring some joint bid.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Apr 2, 2022 15:30:51 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Mar 23, 2022 13:51:46 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Speaking as someone who lives in the NYC Metro, I really don't want them here. It'd be a logistical nightmare not just for the city, but the surrounding communities in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

I still don't know how even bigger cities like Beijing and Tokyo managed them.

The NYC Marathon, that runs on a Sunday is a damn nightmare to navigate. The Olympics? Good luck with that shit. The only good thing would be the IOC dealing with the MTA.

I'm not even from New York, but imagine the Summer Olympics going on when the Yankees and Mets play, that would be a nightmare. Or they go on the road for weeks, and you've got a bunch of pissed off New Yorkers, even more than usual.

[r.]

We're aware Olympic stadiums are money pits.

Google former Olympic stadiums. They end up run down and wasting space.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Apr 10, 2022 14:48:52 GMT -5 r. said:

We're aware Olympic stadiums are money pits.

Google former Olympic stadiums. They end up run down and wasting space.

Los Angeles is one of the few cities to actually make money and it wasn't a waste, and that's thanks to them forcing the IOC to allow them to use already built stadiums.