Posted on 07/29/2014 4:58:55 PM PDT by grundle
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials denouncing “poor door” entrances for subsidized tenants in luxury buildings actually voted in favor of a measure that made such separation possible, a Post review found.
When the lengthy text of a zoning resolution was amended by the City Council in July 2009, then-Councilman de Blasio — who arrived late to the meeting — was among the majority who voted “Aye.”
One provision said developers of market-rate condos could include affordable units on site, instead of off site, while allowing for the separation of a number of services that included the entrances.
But de Blasio’s vote didn’t stop City Hall officials last week from putting the blame for the controversial Extell Development project at 40 Riverside Blvd. — which will have a separate entrance for subsidized tenants — solely on former Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s team.
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... and separate water fountains for the coloreds.
DeBlasio’s an idiot. Or Warren Wilhelm, as I call him. Personally, I wouldn’t mind using the poor door to get into some of these lux buildings at a cheap price.
This excuses for this happening are so bogus. Brewer, the Manhattan Borough President, said it was just a “smallish” part of a “long bill”.
In other words, they had to pass it to find out what was in it.
Maybe those that pass legislation should all have to be present for a group reading of all the bills and go around the room with each person reading a sentence aloud. If they are not present the entire time and do not participate in the reading, they shouldn’t get to vote.
If they are going to amend the bill, as they claim, why didn’t they go ahead and do it while they were all together?
“I was elected to lead, not to read.” - President Schwarzenegger
If I lived in New York, and worked in Manhattan, I’d be happy to use a restricted entrance if it meant being close to work. That would be preferable to having to cross burroughs to get to work.
Progressive......
Progressively Neo-Feudalistic...
They appear to be getting money from some HUD program for putting welfare “families” into luxury buildings. The developers are being forced to do this in some places, such as NYC and Chicago.
The whole intent is to destroy these buildings and their developers. Imagine if you’d paid a million or so for your apartment, and then the boyz from the hood are partying and shooting each other next door. And you could be black and pay that million or so for your apartment, and I doubt that you’d like it any better, even if they did have the same skin color.
De Blasio was quite well off from politics before he became mayor, and now that he’s into the extortion racket, he’s doing even better and will soon be a multi, multi millionaire who will buy himself a place far from the “poor” or at least a townhouse or a place in an older building that doesn’t have to abide by these rules.
I’m thinking of moving back. I’ll happily take a poor entrance - especially if it puts me back in the theater district at a good rent. What do I care what people think? That’s the problem today - too many people care about what other people think.
No one, but no one, in a luxury building is going to put up with inner city people moving into their buildings. In NYC, “poor” is a pretty moveable feast.
The idiot DeBlasio (Warren Wilhelm) voted for this thing without reading the zoning provisions. Typical! Now he’s trying to blame the other idiot, Bloomberg.
It reminds me of the 6th Avenue developers who agreed to put in little garden spaces and walkways and instead created huge wind tunnels blowing down the avenue. The idiots in government at that time didn’t bother with the little details either.
To a leftist, the worst possible crime to humanity is to not include somebody. That’s why they fight the hardest on laws dealing with equality and why they force objectionable people on the rest of the population.
My only concern in this scheme is that my apartment be maintained properly, which I wouldn’t expect to be a problem because if my apartment wasn’t maintained properly it would eventually affect the swankier tenants.
I could care less, New York moronic voters put him in office so let them deal with the problems he saddles them with.
Have no fear, if an even worse one comes along he can be assured they will vote him into office.
segregation
“Separate but equal” is back, thanks to liberals.
Read up on this. They don’t have a choice about whether or not to “put up with” these tenants. It’s required of the developers of the property.
This has become a problem in all of the new high end buildings. I believe it applies only to new buildings and not to conversions, but I could be wrong.
40 RSD is the first one to come up with the separate entrance idea, and that’s why they’re being attacked.
As for the “poor,” placing them in luxury buildings or neighborhoods has been tried before...and the “poor” hated it. They were far away from their friends and family, their shops, etc. - and they were living among people who either disliked or feared them or regarded them as charity cases. No fun for anybody.
But progressives don’t care about reality.
Can we assume Chelsea Clinton-Mezvinsky is taking in a few dozen south of the border youts in her $10m condo?
Would you like your subdivision or condo complex or wherever it is you live to suddenly be forced to set aside a certain number of units for people who couldn’t afford them, were paid for by the government, and had never wanted to be there in the first place and also knew that everybody else disliked them and didn’t want them to be there either?
I didn’t think so.
These tenants are not really ‘poor’ except in the New York City sense of being unable to come up with $10 million cash to buy their apartment. They are required to have jobs and earn $35-60K a year, to qualify for the $1000 a month two-bedroom that would go for $8000 a month on the free market. They are likely to be a very mixed lot, but they definitely have won the lottery.
Wow, you really enjoy your status as being above the middle class that your money allows you to afford.
I can see you watching a mother with little children begging for food while your stuffing your face and complain about having to be around such sights.
Wow!
But not on themselves, of course. Equality is for the 'little people.'
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