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Ok, so basically the entire Willets Point project has been stripped down to a parking garage/mall on the Citifield parking lot for the Wilpons and a collection of temporary sports facilities, including stickball courts, on condemned land where the convention center and affordable housing was supposed to be built. The whole idea of stickball is that you play it in the street, but in Bloombergland it requires a project that costs billions of dollars...
The City Council didn't vote for this, but they'll look the other way while this gets pushed through.
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This amounts to a land grab and racially discriminatory project of Bloomberg and the Mets' owners that will displace hundreds of small businesses that are predominantly owned/operated by racial/ethnic minorities and recent immigrants. It will come to a head at the time of the All Star game and will ruin the Mets just as the international media spotlights them. The LaGuardia "retraining program" was a sham that has utterly failed to place people in new jobs. Helen Marshall has failed to deliver her relocation plan for the businesses, contrary to her 2008 promises. Julissa Ferreras will stand by as her constituents are steamrolled, losing their livelihoods and homes. The City Council was hoodwinked in 2008 to approve this swindle, but the City has since reneged on most of the purported "benefits" of the project. Living wage provision that was touted by unions as an "historic" agreement? Reneged by the City. Recouping the $200 million cost to taxpayers for Willets Point Phase One property? Reneged by the City -- Mets' owners getting it instead as a gift. Housing? None to be built any time soon -- and the developers are contractually allowed to opt out of constructing any housing whatsoever. (Hint: there won't be any housing.) Attorney General found Shulman's group and EDC guilty of illegal lobbying, but held no one to account and let Shulman's group keep the taxpayers' $450,000.00 provided by EDC with the expectation of receiving lobbying services (now known to have been illegal) in exchange. More dirty dealings for Flushing waterfront property. Meanwhile, EDC's Pinsky makes the rounds to the Queens weeklies, pretending nobody's done anything wrong.
This is bound to get very interesting.
I can tell Bloomberg what to do with his stickball courts!
Can you guess what that is?
Let's play stickball on Bloomberg's block...
sewer to sewer...what ho?
Tell Wilpon to stick it all where the sun don't shine!
Uh...we could use "granny" Shulman for home plate.
Slide Bloomberg....slide!
Bloomberg is not only screwing the WP businesses, his minions at NYC EDC are offering to move people to other areas that are little more than dumping grounds for rablle in the way of his favored developments. Staten Island has zoning putting M3-1 (heavy industrial) directly adjacent to residential - and EDZ will offer incentives to move businesses in...
Halloran is going to agree to it for sure. More money in his pocket.
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