List of New York City PODs.

To improve the economic ability of NY'ers especially coming from poorer neighborhoods, it might be good to implement some sort of program like TX has where if you are in the top x percent of your class you can go to any state (SUNY in this case) school for free... so we can have a higher percentage of college graduates.

Just an aside, but this isn't what we have in TX - if you are in the top ten percent, you are automatically admitted to state colleges, but you don't get any free funding other than what you'd normally get.
 
Allow the Shoram (nuke) plant on long island to open and the broadwater natural gas floating terminal in the sound to allow the area to be more energy independent and for the northern state parkway to be extended all the way to stony brook instead of terminating in commack. You can also have a bridge built from oyster bay to rye (been in the works for 30 years) which would reduce a lot of the traffic in upper manhattan and the bronx
These all sound really interesting. While you're at it, why not build an offshore terminal for unloading tankers (with pipeline to shore), so they don't have to nav the approaches to N. Y. Harbor, which is a recipe for oil spills...
It would be awesome if you could modernize and uncongest the airports too (maybe allowing JFK to turning into a MEGA hub for all of the airlines, saving TWA would probably help)
What about building another airport? At, say, King's Point? Or, if you'll allow an "outside" POD affecting NYC, what about adopting hi-speed rail? That'd dramatically reduce the airport congestion, wouldn't it?

If you'd accept a POD a bit farther back, what about the proposed damming of the Hudson or Harlem River?
a great POD as well is to allow the west side stadium to be built to house one of the baseball teams (preferrably the mets) AND to bring the jets into NY to play there as well. You can accellerate the nets leaving NJ and coming to brooklyn as well (the team has had attendance problems forever)
Honestly, I think the impact of this is vastly overrated...
you want a 1940s POD?

here:

Nazis get past engine glitches and successfully develop trans-Atlantic large bombers.

affecting neighborhood character, "impact" on skyline, anti-aircraft gun-towers for kids to play around on post-war, early boost for area airports with military defense requirements, take your pick

if you want to get really gruesome, throw in "V3" primitive ICBMs with various ordinance delivered on target.

maybe heavy water development gets a kind of boost.

maybe d-day goes to hell and the Nazis have extra time to develop more weapons to rain havoc on nyc.

maybe a kind of nuclear bomb with a swastika on it lands on the island of Manhattan, that would profoundly suck, but, hey, it's definitely a POD.
You don't actually need these. Recall this, & imagine it in the vicinity of the Empire State Building. A U-boat firing into an ammo ship, or laying mines an ammo ship hits, would do nicely.

Another thought: NYC doesn't house the UN, so the Waldorf-Astoria (?) isn't torn down.

Or, if you're going back farther, the Erie Canal isn't built, which drastically reduces the growth & economic importance of NYC.
Erie Canal...15 years late, would have major changes on the character of New York. Especially the latter; if you can hold it off long enough, the B&O Railroad will be complete and we might see Baltimore a much bigger and more important city than it is OTL, sapping a lot of economic and population potential from NYC.
Baltimore? Really?:cool: I understood Boston would be affected most. (Admittedly, working from memory.:eek:)
 
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Baltimore? Really?:cool: I understood Boston would be affected most. (Admittedly, working from memory.:eek:)

Baltimore was what immediately came to mind because it'd suddenly get all of the midwestern trade instead of NYC, because of the B&O (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad). It was the second Atlantic/midwest connect after the Erie Canal, IIRC. This is not going to make NYC be only a footnote in the 20th century, nor is Baltimore ITTL going to be as wealthy and powerful as OTL New York.
 
Americans

What if the New York Americans never folded, but found success in Brooklyn?

Good. Finally some sports on here again.

If the NHL would have re-instated the Americans after WWII, and if the arena in Brooklyn is built:

1. No Islanders by the early-70's.

2. With seven teams, Cleveland may have had more of a chance to be admitted in the 50's.

3. If Cleveland worked out, you may have seen more expansion by the early-60's. That may have included some of the Western Hockey league teams by the late-60's like Seattle, San Fran, and LA.

4. The chance of a WHA being formed may have been less likely.
 
Outside of sports, I always wish that I could have seen the old Madison Square Garden; the images always capture my imagination and the one they built in the '60s (that episode of Mad Men!?) just doesn't capture the imagination...


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Also, what about the Hotel Attraction? That would have been something... I'm not sure how great a POD it would be but it would really change architecture; so too would have IM Pei's 1956 Grand Central Tower

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as for sports, the fact that the only football stadium still on Manhattan Island is Wein Stadium for columbia always surprised me... if someone had the foresight to turn the Polo Grounds into a football stadium instead of project housing, that would have been one hell of a thing!

Also, what if NYU never stopped playing football? The guy on the Heisman is an NYU Violet, and if they had lasted into the late 20th century, wouldn't they make a great ACC member with Boston College, or in the Big East with Syracuse and Rutgers?



 
I'm really glad this thread got revived. :)

Maybe the Bronx Tigers are much more successful in the Canadian American Hockey League and the Eastern Hockey League, gaining a much larger and wider reception amongst its fan. Then the Bronx Coliseum would remain in its place instead of being replaced by an MTA bus depot. It could really keep that specific area of the Bronx in a much better shape than it is now.
 
One alternate would be what's being done in another TL which is not having the Five Burroughs join, keeping them separate cities. This would be a huge political, economic, cultural, and sporting development with the PoD going back all the way to the 1890's
 
Here's another NYC POD: The proposed domed stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers is built at the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, on the site of the Barclays Center. It is completed in 1960 and the Dodgers stay in New York for the time being.
 
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