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As promised, a coalition of Brooklyn community groups filed a lawsuit against the city yesterday over plans to turn a 31-acre area zoned for manufacturing on the border of Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy into 1,895 low-rise apartments—905 of which would charge below-market rate rents. Opponents say the housing complex would be racially and religiously discriminatory because it features too many three- and four-bedroom apartments, which would "disproportionately accommodate the Hasidic community's large families." Critics also want the buildings to be much taller, and accuse the Buildings Department of capping them at eight stories to accommodate Orthodox Jews who can't ride elevators on Shabbos. A lawyer for the Broadway Triangle Community Coalition tells the Daily News, "This process was dramatically racial. It acquiesces to the needs of the Hasidic community." But Councilman David Yassky, a supporter of the development plan, dismisses the allegations, explaining, "I want more housing, but I don't want skyscrapers in the middle of Brooklyn." The City Council will vote on the plan after the City Planning Commission casts their vote, and like other big projects, the use of eminent domain is becoming another heated issue.
Racism Charged in Broadway Triangle Development
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"This process was dramatically racial. It acquiesces to the needs of the Hasidic community." But Councilman David Yassky, a supporter of the development plan, dismisses the allegations, explaining, "I want more housing, but I don't want skyscrapers in the middle of Brooklyn."
Hello!!! Yassky is Jewish!!!
hahaha!
The real damning part of this comes from the Brooklyn Paper article:
"United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizen Council — two non-profit groups tied to Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D-Bushwick) — were given no-bid contracts by the city to develop housing in the Triangle."
Religion is silly.
Racism again? Yawn. Zzzzzzzzzz.
The race card is so overplayed.
So what would you call it, then?
yassky doesn't want skyscrapers?? so what does he call those shitty condos they're planting all over greenpoint? what a jack ass...
yassky doesn't want skyscrapers?? so what does he call those shitty condos they're planting all over greenpoint? what a jack ass...
How about just charging market rate?
If 905 loser families get a break, who do you think is going to pick it up? The other 990 families will have to pick up the difference. The only way to make housing affordable in NYC would be to dump all the subsidies that all the lazy losers get.
Let the market do its thing.
It's not about "loser" families.
It's about families that are FAR from poverty level income living in housing priced for poverty level families.
Yeah, not enough studios with broken stoves and grates over the windows.
That's why it's called Jew York.
To all parties involved here: Fuck you.
I'm helping subsidize this and am receiving shit in return. In fact, I'm receiving double shit as I have to pay a higher price for my apartment because of entitled assholes like these.
Fuck community groups that leech. Fuck price ceilings.
Word.
As times get tougher, hopefully more and and more New Yorkers will ask why we are picking up the tab for people who don't work, or don't work enough or make bad life decisions.
This whole city operates on a system of perverse incentives.