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Originally Posted by heep223
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If you read the original article again, it goes into more detail on what the "hundreds of millions" covers - I.e. not just cleanup, but cleanup and infrastructure upgrades. I expanded further, with personal knowledge (from reading newspaper articles of the years), that the infrastructure upgrades included in that $325 million number include much more than what would normally be called infrastructure upgrades. I beleive it is the entire cost of the TIF plan for the East Village to date - which includes funding a portion of the NMC, a portion of the library, the 4th Street Underpass, the St Patrick's Bridge, etc. Just those 4 things is around $150 million (EV portions of the toal cost only), At least, IIRC.