How Low-Income Can You Go?
The latest Atlantic Yards puff piece arrived in mailboxes earlier this week and the cover photo is something of a head-scratcher. We’re not so sure a family in matching $75 designer polo shirts was quite who Bertha Lewis had in mind when she sold ACORN’s support to Bruce Ratner for half a million bucks and…
The latest Atlantic Yards puff piece arrived in mailboxes earlier this week and the cover photo is something of a head-scratcher. We’re not so sure a family in matching $75 designer polo shirts was quite who Bertha Lewis had in mind when she sold ACORN’s support to Bruce Ratner for half a million bucks and a kiss. Of course, the mailer actually got the demographic just right: The large majority of apartments in the proposed complex ARE for the polo-shirt set. Too bad that wasn’t made clear to all the low-income folks Ratner got to spend the day in line at the first public forum who actually have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting an apartment.
I believe the definition of affordable in the agreement is households earning up to $109,000 a year — hence the polo shirts.
Yes, I actually saw the DDDB propoganda flyers in the hallway of my co-op building last night also. I doubt that Hakeem Jeffries the new assemblyman for the district will have much to do with the DDDB crowd because of their extremely harsh criticism of him throughout the primary campaign. One thing that I’ve learned from my work with non-profits is that you never burn bridges. DDDB trashed Jeffries and now he is in power and will probably ignore them. Personally, I find DDDB’s tone to be very condescending and shrill which is why many people around the borough simply dismiss them.
How much in taxpayer dollars is funding it in your estimation?
she has stated her reasoning and beleives she is being pragmatic. You may have very valid reasons
to not agree with her reasoning or position. You are entitled to yours.
But what is so disgusting is the tactic of smearing her because doesn’t agree with your side. That is what I said was a right-wing ‘tactic’. (not that one position or another on this issue is right-wing).
Argue the facts and merits. It doesn’t help to smear and ridicule.
please – no more quoting Wikipedia as a valid source. Anyone can write an entry and guess who wrote that one.
DDDB’s own Daniel Goldstein also played the “race game” with his “wealthy white masters” comment a few months ago. Of course, DDDB’s web site neglected to archive their press release condemning these comments – I suppose if you erase all proof of the comments, it’s just as if they were never spoken, right?
lacoste polos are $75 apiece.
sorry about the almost-duplicate posts; I was trying to tone down my own rhetoric
yo pete: yes, ACORN has done any number of great things in Brooklyn and across the country. but Bertha Lewis hasn’t negotiated housing at a price point that her membership can afford, which means that she sold out on this one. that is why she is being dragged through the mud. it’s not about right- or left-wing politics; it’s about whether the benefits (one side of the ledger) are greater than the subsidies and unmitigatable impacts (the other side). by my accounting, not even close. you are right that the rhetoric has gotten out of control, but Forest City started that.