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November 2, 2009
On Your To Way Vote, We Quizzically Ask: How “Green” Is Our Bloomberg?
Noticing New York
Michael D.D. White offers up a little election eve quiz.
True or False: Bloomberg uses his environmental PlaNYC as a justification for promoting more city real estate development.
...But the question with the Bloomberg administration is which came first: A love of the environment or the promotion of big development? By 2007, long before PlaNYC the Bloomberg administration was well on its away to promoting megadevelopments and most of the 100 upzonings covering a fifth of the city were in place. We have also seen, in other situations, how prone the Bloomberg administration is to the cynical use of beneficial things, for instance “affordable housing” as excuses to justify otherwise indefensible mega-monopolies like Atlantic Yards.
Posted by eric at November 2, 2009 8:47 PM