Jay Cross

The Related Companies has tapped Jay Cross, president of the New York Jets, to lead its $15 billion development over the West Side rail yards, bringing in a driving force behind the failed effort three years ago to build a West Side stadium on the same site.

Mr. Cross is a onetime real estate executive who has spent much of the last few years developing stadiums and arenas for professional sports teams, pushing through the new Meadowlands stadium, Miami’s AmericanAirlines arena and the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.  read more »

At first, setting all these deadlines seemed like a good way to create a sense of urgency around the Stadium. But it's starting to get silly: April 12: "Jay Cross...said the stadium would not be ready to open in time for the 2010 Super Bowl unless he ordered 17,000 tons of steel by the end of May."

But here we are in the end of May, and this week's NFL vote has the Jets still in line for 2010.  read more »

"Another deadline that turned out to be, shall we say, elastic," writes a correspondent.

With his New York City convention judged a big success and providing him with a formidable bounce in  read more »

If the New York Jets, a lunch-bucket football team if ever there was one, return to the city of thei  read more »

On the evening of Sept.  read more »