Eliot Against the Stadium, After All

But at a breakfast up in Washington Heights this morning, he broke his silence:

"I didn't think it made a lot of financial sense to give a way a piece of real estate that's worth a few billion dollars to a football team for a hundred million dollars," he said. "That's their fiscal determination thus far - maybe not down the road - but it didn't make sense to me."

After the event, Spitzer said he'd expressed his reservations privately to Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and others.