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De Blasio’s “affordable” housing has always been closer to low-grade luxury rental than it has to actual accessibility by the people who need it most. But his alleged pursuit of affordability as a rationale for upzoning has allowed him to … Continue reading →

They grow more intractable and arbitrary by the day, and in return they raise more and more money from Republican donors. Manchin’s latest demands concerning Build Back Better are absolutely gonzo. He is an malevolent, stupid, selfish and greedy man. … Continue reading →

Village Preservation has published an informtive debriefing on the Soho/Noho/Chinatown upzoning catastrophe. Instructive is the account’s rationale for the frantic, slovenly haste with which the city moved to get this lemon of a proposal over the finish line. Christopher Marte … Continue reading →

But five members demonstrated integrity yesterday, voting against de Blasios’s monstrous Soho/Noho/Chinatown upzoning, sherpad through the council by the inglorious sell outs Chin, Johnson & Rivera. The five who stood up for New York: Members Kallos, Menchaca, Holden, Barron and … Continue reading →

In the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren calls for the Court to be expanded: “I don’t come to this conclusion lightly or because I disagree with a particular decision; I come to this conclusion because I believe the current court threatens … Continue reading →

Like Margaret Chin, Johnson’s City Council tenure ends in disgrace. When Johnson announced that he would not accept real estate contributions for his since-ended mayoral bid, I made up my mind to support him then and there. So I am … Continue reading →

As Samuel Stein writes in his book Capital City, upzoning is a massive seizure of public assets, “turning everyone’s airspace into someone’s property.”

With Wallace gone, it stands exposed as exclusively a venue for hate speech, treasonous anti-America incitement, Fascist propaganda, and Tucker Carlson broadcasting his sexual anxieties.

Village Preservation tells us that one member of the City Council’s either zoning or land-use committees ignored the electioneering of Members Chin and Rivera and voted against this disastrous Soho/Noho/Chinatown upzoning. Who was it?

De Blasio’s plan to ravage Soho/Noho/Chinatown with massive upzoning and displacement has been denounced by many preservation and tenant advocacyy groups, by US Congress Members Maloney and Nadler, by NY State Senator Hoylman, NY Assesmbly Member Glick, NYC Community Board … Continue reading →