It’s hard to keep an ambitious ex-politician down. On the heels of his proposal for a massively oversized residential development on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Herman Badillo has injected himself into the jobs vs. housing debate in Red Hook with a vague proposal for 1,500-unit housing development and a campus for charter schools and a college. The city as well as local business leaders and pols have been pushing a plan that combines more parkland with shops and restaurants with a moderate amount of mixed-income housing thrown in for good measure. Which direction in better for Red Hook? For Brooklyn residents in general?
Badillo: Luxury Apartments at Columbia Piers [Brooklyn Papers]
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