Proposal Would Bring Jets Home To Willets Point 

Armed with a study presenting the proposed West Side stadium plans as an economic blunder, Congressman Anthony Weiner has proposed an alternate plan that would cost less, happen faster and bring the Jets back to Willets Point.
Like the original plan, Weiners proposal includes the expansion of the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, but the total building cost would be about $1 billion, or 34.1%, less. Congressman Weiner was supported by State Senator Thomas Duane and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, both of Manhattan.
"This is a plan that is everything the current proposal is not," Congressman Weiner said.
Queens Plan Cheaper
An analysis of stadium sites done by NYC2012, the organization promoting New York City’s Olympic bid, stated that, "Construction costs [in Willets Point] would be substantially lower than on the West Side."
The cost of expanding the Javits Center and building the West Side Stadium would be $2.8 billion dollars while the overall cost of building a stadium in Willets Point (provided the facility in Queens costs roughly the average of the last five NFL stadiums) and expanding the Javits Center would only be $1.845 billion.
According to Congressman Weiner, while the West Side Plan relies only on the input of elected public authorities, his plan would follow an open and democratic process to ensure that local needs were taken into consideration and a public consensus reached.
Additionally, building at Willets Point would calm West Side residents objections to the imposition of a stadium in their area and would ensure that the Javits Center expansion could be completed more quickly.
Since 1992, there have been 25 major football stadium construction projects nationwide and each has been financed through private, public, or a combination of funding. In addition to being more than twice as expensive as the second most costly facility, the new stadium deal requires New York taxpayers to pay more than the entire cost for all but one of the projects.
The study presented by the congressman looked at the last 24 stadium deals for NFL teams and calculated the public subsidy for each in relative 2004 dollars. The results showed that the plan for a West Side stadium, with a public cost of $600 million, would dwarf all of them. In all but one case the public portion alone for the New York deal equalled the cost of the entire stadium built for the other teams.  
Willets Point Jets
The proposed Queens stadium would also solve a problem the has plagued civic planners since the Jets left for New Jersey in 1983: What to do with Willets Point? Unlike the West Side, Willets Point boasts two interstate highways, the Van Wyck and the Long Island expressways, subway and rail, and even ferry access, as well as ample parking. Possessing adjacent facilities for football and baseball would help the city promote its Olympic bid, and possibly spur on the construction of a new field for the Mets. At a minimum, a stadium at Willets Point would not disrupt the significant revenue generated by the theater community on Broadway or tie up the already-congested streets of Manhattan.
With the $800 million the Jets have earmarked for the West Side facility, little public funding would be necessary to build a state-of-the-art facility in Queens and any public investment could be used to expand the parking near the Willets Point site.
"It is a better site for football and better for all of New York City," said the congressman. "It is clearly cheaper. It can be built faster because it does not require the exceptional foundation that the rail yards would need. And it is a more open and transparent process that would give New Yorkers a real vote in the plan."