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September 5, 2007
MISSING: Candidate Marty Markowitz
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn stumbled over an old interview with candidate Marty Markowitz when he was first running for Borough President. Amazingly, Markowitz makes the case against mega-projects like Atlantic Yards:
Marty Markowitz, current State Senator, talks to host Lora Chio about housing issues facing Brooklyn including his extensive career as a tenant organizer and advocate, his 27 years of experience as an elected State Senator (known as "Mr. Tenant" in Albany), and his personal history as a child who grew up in public and rent controlled housing. He also discusses the changing face of the housing crisis, the need for preservation and help to keep moderate and low-income families from being displaced, and his priority, if elected, to protect the housing for Brooklyn residents, rather than to focus on building housing to attract the wealthy from other boroughs, and much, much more.
NoLandGrab: This just proves that Markowitz knows what Atlantic Yards critics are talking about and explains why the Borough President's head nearly explodes when he starts ranting about the project that politicians hate to love.
Posted by lumi at September 5, 2007 7:11 AM