The developer who got a sweet deal from the city to build a half-market-rate, half-affordable Upper East Side apartment tower is a big donor to Mayor de Blasio, records show.
Since 2011, Harold Fetner and his family have written eight checks totaling $39,150 for de Blasio, including seven donations to his 2013 and 2017 election campaigns and one to the mayor’s transition committee.
Months after arriving at City Hall, de Blasio appointed Fetner to the nonprofit Mayor’s Fund for the Advancement of New York, a plum assignment the mayor has doled out to multiple deep-pocketed donors.
NYCHA announced on Wednesday it had picked Fetner’s company, Fetner Properties, over three other bidders to build a 47-story tower on what is now NYCHA land in the Holmes Towers development on E. 91st St.
Under the deal, Fetner gets a 99-year lease and will build and manage a 344-unit tower. He will also qualify for $13 million in taxpayer subsidies and will pay no property taxes because the building will sit on NYCHA land.
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It just never ends does it. These zoning gifts has been proven to spur gentrification and displacement. As the majority of NYCHA housing continues to be ignored.
I don't care if Avella dropped out, this corrupt mayor has to be primaried.
Real estate interests have money to burn. They donate to EVERY politician who has half a chance at power... what're you coning to do, ban political contributions by people who benefit from politicians' actions?
Good luck with that.
Face it, JQ: New York City is THE most corrupt, entrenched, establishment-rigged, kleptocratic kakistocracy-plutocracy in the world, and it's a continual, party-machine-failed operation that brazenly continues to handsomely reward all monstrous, cradle-to-grave political fail, for which everyone else continues to pay a soul-crushing price――and, the public be damned (again and STILL).
And, to sadly paraphrase President DONALD J. TRUMP, an openly practicing criminal and cognitive dissonant sociopath like de Blassio could murder someone on Fifth Avenue――and, he would STILL be reelected by the very same, mad cow diseased herd of blindingly loyal, fall-in-line DemonRats of the DNC (Does Not Care - about democracy), as the rank and file slip deeper into an obsolete, lawless, vigilante-style sphere of adversity, beggary, obscurity, quiet desperation and PUBLIC SQUALOR――versus, PRIVATE SPLENDOR, power, privilege and unjust enrichment for the depraved cabal of higher ups, all of whom have rigged a perpetual, taxpayer funded, public payroll system to their OWN personal corruption, graft and endless greed, not to mention one that automatically FOISTS a 'Hijack-And-Hostage' holding pattern on to their ever languishing constituents, as they continue to DEVALUE all honesty itself!
❝No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.❞ ――William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
❝We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.❞ ―—Aesop
❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ ―—Utah Phillips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Tq9zdp9ZE...
Face it, JQ: New York City is THE most corrupt, entrenched, establishment-rigged, kleptocratic kakistocracy-plutocracy in the world, and it's a continual, party-machine-failed operation that brazenly continues to handsomely reward all monstrous, cradle-to-grave political fail, for which everyone else continues to pay a soul-crushing price――and, the public be damned (again and STILL).
And, to sadly paraphrase President DONALD J. TRUMP, an openly practicing criminal and cognitive dissonant sociopath like de Blassio could murder someone on Fifth Avenue――and, he would STILL be reelected by the very same, mad cow diseased herd of blindingly loyal, fall-in-line DemonRats of the DNC (Does Not Care - about democracy), as the rank and file slip deeper into an obsolete, lawless, vigilante-style sphere of adversity, beggary, obscurity, quiet desperation and PUBLIC SQUALOR――versus, PRIVATE SPLENDOR, power, privilege and unjust enrichment for the depraved cabal of higher ups, all of whom have rigged a perpetual, taxpayer funded, public payroll system to their OWN personal corruption, graft and endless greed, not to mention one that automatically FOISTS a 'Hijack-And-Hostage' holding pattern on to their ever languishing constituents, as they continue to DEVALUE all honesty itself!
❝No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.❞ ――William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
❝We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.❞ ―—Aesop
❝The Earth isn't dying. It's being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ ―—Utah Phillips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Tq9zdp9ZE...
"Under the deal, Fetner gets a 99-year lease and will build and manage a 344-unit tower. He will also qualify for $13 million in taxpayer subsidies and will pay no property taxes because the building will sit on NYCHA land.."
It's only a 99-year lease. Afterward, he'll have to pay property taxes, no?
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i pray the real estate market drops
Wanna know what the people who reside in the projects feel about this plunder of city property assisted by the god damned De Faustio and that zombie Oyalte. Everyone didn't want it, not even the well to do neighbors across the street wanted it. But the mayor and Shoya basically told them all to fuck off and die.
They might not die, but they will surely be under duress every day with the foul air and noise pollution during that new building's construction. And I thought these enlightened fuaxgressives were all for the environment.
Anonymous who responded to me, Commenter X above there, Keep up the righteous vitriol and the informative links, keep on keeping the spirit of George Carlin alive.
RIP Chris Cornell
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