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July 9, 2006
Carl Andrews, Yvette Clark, Chris Owens, David Yassky
JAY DeDAPPER interviews the candidates for the 11th congressional district on WNYC. Here is what they had to say about local development:
Mr. YASSKY: OK. The--I think the real question is you can't take development in isolation.Ms. CLARK: That's right.
Mr. OWENS: You can't say, `This is a project,' boom, you plop it down and you say, `This is magic, and we do X number of units of affordable housing.' You have to look at what's happening as the result of what you do. So, for example, there are many people who live in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area who--for whom David takes a lot of credit, and they are not happy with what's happening because there are ripple effects, and those ripple effects are not necessarily positive. In fact, the local congresswoman was not happy with that project, as well as Norman Siegel and others.
Posted by amy at July 9, 2006 1:13 PM