page_title: New York City bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics
section_title: Venues
hierarchical_section_title: New York City bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics / Venues
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken by me on Friday, July 15th, 2005. The countdown clock has reverted back to its old state -- part of the Metronome monument that overlooks Union Square.
context_page_description: The New York City 2012 Olympic bid was one of the five short-listed bids for the 2012 Summer Olympics, ultimately won by London.
  New York City's Olympic bid was managed by a private non-profit organization, NYC2012, founded by Daniel L. Doctoroff, then the managing director of Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm. Doctoroff thought of bringing the Olympic Games to New York after witnessing New York's international sports fans at a 1994 FIFA World Cup match in Giants Stadium. He then built a team to help craft a plan for staging the Games. Seven years later, Doctoroff resigned as President of NYC2012 to join the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but he continued to lead New York's Olympic Bid as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding.
  Two of the biggest projects proposed as part of the bid were the revival of the East River waterfront, including the construction of an Olympic Village across the river from the United Nations Headquarters and an aquatics center in Brooklyn, and the construction of West Side Stadium, which was supposed to have led to the comprehensive redevelopment of the Far West Side of Manhattan.
context_section_description: Olympic venues would have been spread around the city, had it been selected for the Olympics.
caption: Countdown clock to the 2012 Olympic host city selection on the Metronome monument in Union Square.
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