Community Groups Sue City over Broadway Triangle
Opponents of the controversial plan to develop the 31-acre area of East Williamsburg called the Broadway Triangle sued the city yesterday in Supreme Court, charging racial and religious discrimination as well as failure to comply with due process. The coalition of 40 North Brooklyn community groups alleges that the plan for 1,895 new units of…
Opponents of the controversial plan to develop the 31-acre area of East Williamsburg called the Broadway Triangle sued the city yesterday in Supreme Court, charging racial and religious discrimination as well as failure to comply with due process. The coalition of 40 North Brooklyn community groups alleges that the plan for 1,895 new units of housing favor the Hasidic community by including a disproportionate number of three- and four-bedroom apartments to house larger Jewish families and by capping building height at eight stories, since Jews can’t take the elevator on the Sabbath. The suit points out that nearly half of the public housing in the area is currently occupied by Hasidic Jews, despite federal court orders requiring the end of discriminatory practices and despite the fact that the waiting list for such housing has remained at over 90 percent Latino and African American for more than 30 years. It also claims that the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizens Council and the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg received exclusive development rights in a no-bid process through their connections to Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D-Williamsburg), and that the city failed to submit its plans for review by Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Community Board 3, as required by land use regulations. Addressing some of these claims back in July, Councilman David Yassky (D-Williamsburg) said, “I want more housing, but I don’t want skyscrapers in the middle of Brooklyn … I can’t imagine that there are real grounds for a lawsuit.” GMAP
Racial and Religious Discrimination Alleged in Triangle [NY Daily News]
City Sued over Triangle Rezoning [Brooklyn Paper]
Triangle Debate Goes On over Eminent Domain [Brownstoner]
The Voice Calls Out Lopez [Brownstoner]
Markowitz Endorses Lopez’s Triangle Plan [Brownstoner]
thanks people. I gotta check it out Asshathill sound like fun. This whole ban thing is dumb. Why ban then allow others to sneak back in and rant nonstop?
This thread sucks matzo(sp) balls. Let B figure it out. It’s his “living room” like he wrote last year.
That asshole maplewood guy once wrote “I was a ghetto ass wannabe because everyone on brownstoner is from one mold”. The other day this idiot calls an African American kid a “butler” then writes “jeeves fetch me a 40”. There was no cavalry to the rescue or Stoner outcry for a ban.
bye bye crooklyn
Mr. B. threw him out.
If anyone’s still reading, maybe they should actually look up Spike Lee… I do recall he was the product of a solid upper-middle class household, his father’s Bill Lee, a well-known jazz musician, and his mom was a teacher. He attended St. Ann’s in BH. So obviously he got into NYU on his own merits.
But even if he didn’t, the vast majority of folx that go to NYU film school, or SVA, or RISD, end up without being able to have any impact at all in their line of work, let alone being a major figure like Spike.
ENY has it down here…
“Never said anything like that, clearly you are projecting”
Posted by: bitter_bubble_buyer at September 10, 2009″
“Crooklyn what about the black people who could not get into NYU without affirmitive action like Spike Lee?”
Posted by: bitter_bubble_buyer at September 10, 2009 2:49 PM
“Crooklyn you know that Spike Lee was a product of affirmitive action right?”
Posted by: bitter_bubble_buyer at September 10, 2009 2:29 PM
http://www.asshathill.blogspot.com
http://asshathill.blogspot.com
Dibs, what’s the address for the Blog?
“bubble, your numerous comments about how the only way blacks and latinos get anything is through affirmative action is tiresome and racist. ”
Never said anything like that, clearly you are projecting
“What loves you cobble. Make him come back. Who would have thought there would come a day when ass hat and ass head would seem like a fun thing to be called?”
I wish I had the power…