It didn’t take long: after not endorsing the monstrous ballot referendums, at the very last moment he did, thus perhaps ensuring their passage.
They will result in less affordable housing, not more, and if he is gullible enough to think otherwise, he needs to wise sup and fast. You have got to do better, Mr. Mayor Elect. You cannot say that are working to make the city more affordable while endorsing the developers’ demands that they be allowed to build more and more and bigger and bigger luxury towers. You cannot call yourself a progressive and be a developers’ pawn.
This is what comes from Mamdani allowing himself to be steered by so many DeBlasio advisors.
In his victory speech, Mamdani might just as well have said, “New York Developers: This City Belongs to You”
He needs to throw out the DeBlasio crew as fast as possible.