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August 18, 2009
The Day: Cleaner Eateries, Louder Bikes
The Local: Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill
By Andy Newman
The Gotham Gazette has a large (1,500-word) piece this morning on the 35th District city council race, featuring interviews with all three candidates — incumbent Letitia James and challengers Delia Hunley-Adossa and Medhanie Estiphanos, also name-checking (who knew? not us) Republican/Conservative candidate Stuart A. Balberg and independent Osaretin Ighile.
In the article, Ms. Hunley-Adossa, who says the the Atlantic Yards project would bring affordable housing and jobs to the district, criticizes Ms. James, who opposes the project, charging that she “seems to have not engaged the developer into bringing forth some of these benefits to the community.”
Ms. Hunley-Adossa’s engagement with the developer, Forest City Ratner, includes securing funding from Forest City for her nonprofit, Brooklyn Endeavor Experience. She refused to tell Gotham Gazette how much Forest City had given her group and noted correctly that Ms. James had funded groups opposing Atlantic Yards.
NoLandGrab: James's support for groups opposing Atlantic Yards is irrelevant to the fact that Hunley-Adossa is too ashamed to speak openly about receiving financial support from Ratner.
Posted by lumi at August 18, 2009 5:38 AM