Mayor Adams was joking when he claimed thatwas a friend of the real estate industry. His "comprehensive blueprint" for building affordable homes, which he announced last week, is a laughing riot. But the joke is with us.
Development-hating predecessor Bill de Blasio was able to kick-start at least new apartment building clusters here and there, but Adams' approach did not create anything. i promise. Ha, ha!
Adams (reasonably sufficient) facilitated zoning changes to enable new home development with affordable units deBlasio's gradual one place at a time I don't like strategy. But Adams'Neighbor's Dwelling: Dwelling and Homeless BlueprintThe plan is new until the cows return home due to the great lack of reality and details . It takes time to build things.
We should have seen it come. Adams didn't speak or speak to save the valuable Central Harlem development plan a few weeks ago. It scuttled by one of the city council members, Christine Richardson Jordan, because she didn't want it in her district. .. .. Just because of .
In 2020Like Carlos Menchaca, a former council member who shot a minor rezoning of Sunset Park's Industry City with a torpedo she 100} is "progressive" that rejects actual progress if it means bringing new residents and new investments to her backyard.
Malcolm's Twin Tower Project X Boulevard, known as One45 And West 145th Street needed a zoning change. It would have delivered hundreds of new, affordable apartments, and market-priced apartments, along with shops and offices for local businesses, to underutilized low-rise blocks full of vagrants. It's hard to come up with a simpler plan to support
. No public funding was needed. No one would have been kicked out. It was a pure win-win for the neighborhood who wanted to see Brock come back to life forever.
Despite Richardson Jordan's disgust Adams goes to the bat for One45 who had enough cover. The mayor cannot reject a rezoning vote, but it is not without influence. The plan was approved by the City Planning Commission, Manhattan Mayor Mark Levine, and Harlem's business leader.
But for Richardson Jordan, wasn't enough to make half of the 900 apartments cheaper. It can be applied anywhere, so no affordable unit will be built. However, in the case of racist demagogues, confronting "gentrification" takes precedence over practical benefits to the community.
Hizzoner's refusal to get involved in ominousness , Suggests that he is even more rebellious. It was more "gentrification" than De Blasio — and more than we wanted to believe.
Earlier this month, while planning to help small businesses, build affordable homes and promote sustainability, Adamstold: I am. "Yes" -yes, in my backyard, yes, in my block, yes, in my neighborhood "his other remarks tell the true story.
During last year's campaign , hetold the Harlem crowd, "Return to Iowa, return to Ohio. New York City is here, it's New York City. It belongs to the people who made what it is. ”Adams, who is not at all anti-white, nevertheless borrowed from Al Sharpton's“ white intruder ”the 1980s harem to excite the crowd. rice field.
He handed out the game this month with a Juneteenth rant about protecting a black neighborhood. He ridiculously equatedgentrification with slaveryand forced the black community known as Seneca Village out of what is now Central Park in the 1800s.
Another big challenge for Adams is the impending . A $ 2 billion project in Astoria called Innovation QNS is heading for acouncil vote. In the eyes of opponents, the unforgivable sin is that "only" 25% of the 2,800 apartments are affordable.
If your plan burns like One45, you know who to blame. Mayors who want to make New York the "city of Jesus" unless their neighbor Crank says no.
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