Off-Site Affordable Housing Moving Along on Quincy
Under inclusionary zoning codes, a developer putting up a big market-rate tower in downtown Brooklyn can put up an even bigger market-rate tower if he agrees to build some affordable housing. The kicker is that he doesn’t even have to include the affordable portion on site: He can stick the affordable units in a cheaper…
Under inclusionary zoning codes, a developer putting up a big market-rate tower in downtown Brooklyn can put up an even bigger market-rate tower if he agrees to build some affordable housing. The kicker is that he doesn’t even have to include the affordable portion on site: He can stick the affordable units in a cheaper part of town and still earn the market-rate bonus. Which is how 15 Quincy Street came to be. Instead of including the 48 affordable units in its 40-story tower at Myrtle and Prince, BFC Partners is putting them on Quincy across the street from the Salvation Army. Do you think developers who benefit from inclusionary housing should be able to build the affordable portion off-site?
Development Question on Quincy [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
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Two Towers, One On, One Half Off (Site) [Downtown Star]
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As for transitional housing, I think that’s a good idea. It’s better than the SROs
I hesitate to comment on what has become something of a private argument between a few self-righteous people with waaaay too much time on their hands, but since I live around the corner from this project I have a big interest in it.
It goes without saying that I would rather have a market rate condo building go up there – it would be good for my house’s value, it would attract businesses I would use, etc. – but this isn’t exactly the opposite end of the spectrum. PACC is not going to build it, fill it, and run. I have friends who live down the street from a similar PACC project in Bed-Stuy, and they all say that it is one of the best run buildings of any kind they’re ever lived near.
So, I for one am hoping for the best. Whoever ends up living there, it will be a diverse group of individuals who got there in different ways. Some of the units are earmarked for those transitioning out of homelessness, and I say good for them. Better they have a place in the community so that they won’t end up like the guy who licks my window at the McDonald’s drive-thru.
But thanks for the laugh, anyway. Hard to take anything seriously after someone claims they didn’t use the name Tyrone to evoke a black man. I guess Dave Chappelle could have called his character Chad Biggins with the same effect.
/\ Get help. Seriously.
Stop projecting the hate of others onto people you disagree with. I enjoy my realtionships with people of color and if I’m such a fucking racist, then they wouldn’t assocate with me back.
The last time some white guy cared about my marriage he was calling me a n-loving whore from out his car window. Trust me- I don’t want the likes of you to care.
I don’t use my interracial marriage to make you bow down to my “holy tolerance” as you put it. I talk about it to establish my experienceand obviously I have far more experience and a greater range of experience with the Black community than someone like you whose only claim to interracial relations is called “pootang” and even that he can’t spell right. I didn’t stereotype white men- I pointed you out as a bad example of one. For the record no one called you a “slave rapist”- I never said it and Iceman made a valid historical point. So that’s your interpretation of what we’re saying. You know- like “Tyrone from Attica” was our biased interpretation of what you said.
The rest of us, trolls included, say pretty much what they mean. You’re the only one who tosses out blatant racial slurs and tries to convince the rest of the world of your kindly intentions. So if you are so not bigoted, how come you didn’t say “Buffy from Riverdale?” Your problem is that the rest of us connect the dots in your rants and you just can’t. You advocate neighborhood apartheid- you have no clue as to the dynamics of healthy urban environments. Next you’ll want fences up between neighborhoods and then armed guards in watchtowers with checkpoints for cleaning women nad nannies.But you simply lack the mental capacity to understand your own statements.
Nice job stereotyping white men. I treated all my women quite nicely thank you. And they treated me quite nicely back. 😉
I have issues? I guess I must if I’m a slave rapist. Please.
BTW, pootang applies to every race. White girls too.
As for Beeotches interracial marriage, who cares? The point I’m trying to make is that in the year 2007, bringing up the color of who you slept with lame. She consistantly throws her “interracial marriage” in my face like I’m supposed to bow down to her holy tolerance. Guess what? the vast majority of us have dated people outside our race. It just doesn’t matter. and it doesn’t make her more qualified than any other white person to talk about what’s racial and what’s not.
But I digress. Between Iceman/Beeotch calling me a slave rapist and Silver’s absoulte insistance that i’m george wallace incarnate, I guess my point will just have to stand.
Yours Truly,
Slave Rapist.
Thanks Iceman- at the time I thought no one would believe me and I didn’t know that anyone would do anything. I can also say without a doubt that white people moving into Black neighborhoods are treated far better than Blacks moving into white ones. And I say that from first hand experience.
I haven’t heard of any big protests aganst condos in poor neighborhoods- but listen to the screams if someone wants to build affordable housing in cobble Hill or Carroll grdens. Common sense with his little cubbyhole neighborhoods theory- he’s the one carrying on. Not the folk in Bed-stuy.
as a rich person, I applaud the the developer, his industry’s lobbyists, and the corageous politicians who helped enact the regulation. I like poor people, really, but they’re smelly and dirty and I don’t want them living in the same building as me.
You guys are all POON-TANGS!!
The above poster is correct, WE NEED MORE LUXURY HOUSING in Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy!!!
Excuse me, “Common Sense”, but I think if you took a poll, most would agree that you have been smoking PCP here, not me or Beeotch. I’ve read very carefully what you have said, and I stand by every word I have said.
You obviously have problems with people not agreeing with you. You also have anger management problems. People who have to resort to cursing and using bad language as their last resort to making a point, usually know that they’ve failed, they just want to go out loudly. Well, you’ve succeeded.
I believe that Beeotch mentions several times that she, too, is Jewish, so I think she is quite familiar with the concept and the reality of having one’s family flee the Holocaust. But that point, as well as anything else anyone may have said, is drowned out by your need to be top dog in this argument.
While you may be sick of her inter-racial marriage, I find your boasting about your liasons with the darker tribes quite tiresome, not to mention rather revolting. I am so not interested in who you sleep with, or why. By the way, I believe the perjorative phrase you used is actually called “poontang”. If you are going to be crass, at least be correct.