Satmar Feud Sinking Rose Plaza?
With a major City Council vote just weeks away, the future of a proposed mega-development on the South Williamsburg Waterfront is imperiled by a rivalry between two local Hasidic sects, reports The Observer. The trouble goes back to the death in 2006 when Grand Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum passed away, sparking a split in the Satmar…
With a major City Council vote just weeks away, the future of a proposed mega-development on the South Williamsburg Waterfront is imperiled by a rivalry between two local Hasidic sects, reports The Observer. The trouble goes back to the death in 2006 when Grand Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum passed away, sparking a split in the Satmar community between Teitelbaum’s two sons, Aaron and Zalman. The developer behind the 800-unit project known as Rose Plaza is a Zalmanite and claims that much of the opposition to the project is merely Aaronites playing power politics. The local Councilman Stephen Levin, who has been unusually vocal in his opposition to the project and stands to kill it in the Council, says he’s just listening to his constituents who are sick of luxury developments that don’t have enough affordable housing embedded in them. (Nevermind the fact that the developer, Isack Rosenberg, is the same guy behind the soap opera known as Warehouse 11.) Rose Plaza, however, contains 20 percent affordable housing, the same level as most other projects in the area that have been allowed to proceed.
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It’s like something out of Chakespeare.
What’s 500 million dollars between brothers…
Blacks have lots of kids too, maybe its good for them too DCB.
Posted by: BSD at March 31, 2010 12:51 PM
HEY – don’t be trying to drag black people into this one!
Wow, imagine the view from Manhattan of a great looking condo building polished glossy with 50-100 Sukkah houses sticking out of it.
Wish I could find the picture from Billyburg that was posted here showing sukkahs balconies.
“The developer behind the 800-unit project known as Rose Plaza is a Zalmanite and claims that much of the opposition to the project is merely Aaronites playing power politics.”
And back in the day, before the Grand Rebbe died, the Satmars frequently exercised their political muscle at the expense of the Latino community. What goes around comes around…. (Oh, and head off the foreseeable criticism, that isn’t anti-Semitism; that’s a statement of historical fact.)
Cain and Abel must be having a good belly laugh…
Blacks have lots of kids too, maybe its good for them too DCB.
More condo supply hitting the market. MAJOR GLUT!
(Maybe the Hassids are planning on having even more kids and need the room)
And renting out illegal artists lofts has absolutely nothing to do with this project. The owner is applying for a rezoning so that he can legally building market-rate and affordable housing.