Their power has just been eviscerated by the Adams/developers scam ratified yesterday by New Yorkers blitzed with billionaire-funded propaganda about these ballot issues. The old “affordable housing” nag was led once more around the track. These atrocious measures will, in fact, ensure that housing in NYC is more unaffordable than ever.
This is the City Council’s reward for its years of obsequious yea-saying to every up zoning scheme that has advanced the monstrous overdevelopment and the ever-rising cost-of-living in NYC.
Good-bye City Council, hello mayoral and developer fiat.