The matches were across the Hudson, but much of the money landed in New York City.<\/p>\n
According to City Hall, the World Cup delivered an estimated $2 billion economic boost to the city, including $1.2 billion in visitor spending.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey LeFrancois represents dozens of business improvement districts across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe economic impact could have been broader across the five boroughs, but obviously, the core, Manhattan is the core, really benefited significantly,\u201d LeFrancois, the co-chair of the New York City BID Association, said.<\/p>\n
Council Member Shanel Thomas-Henry says that the citywide win wasn\u2019t felt everywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cCorona, Queens. We hosted one of the largest fan fest events, but did that economic activity didn\u2019t really trickle down to the small businesses in the outer boroughs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Thomas-Henry is now trying to bring another piece of the World Cup money home.<\/p>\n
Her resolution calls on FIFA to make a $1 million legacy contribution host cities say they were verbally promised.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough the agreement was verbal, not written, that shouldn\u2019t matter. It was a good faith effort to give to the communities, and FIFA should really honor their promises to the communities of New York City,\u201d Thomas-Henry said.<\/p>\n
And business leaders say other money may have already gone elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn many instances, it was quite challenging to get a permit. Some brands chose to pick up and activate elsewhere and not in New York City,\u201d LeFrancois said.<\/p>\n
He said the system was overwhelmed despite years to prepare.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing is, there wasn\u2019t a plan in place to meet that demand, and that\u2019s where the miss happened,\u201d LeFrancois said.<\/p>\n
NY1 reached out to FIFA for comment regarding the legacy contribution funds, but has not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The matches were across the Hudson, but much of the money landed in New York City. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[11101,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,319,27,200],"class_list":["post-361394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}