Ahhh, this is like the film Scrooge with no happy endings.... the ghost of Dan Doctoroff makes an appearance.
Corruption and denial are two of the hottest "accessories" at City Hall....We are lucky City Council member Martinez actually pleaded guilty and admitted he was stealing tax pay money from the get go.
If only the hottest fashion accessory at City Hall were handcuffs -- ditto for Albany with lots of cameras capturing the guilty being escorted out.
Gordon Gekko, the film "Wall Street" "Greed is good." is the mantra at City Hall and under Bloomberg there has been the most shameful abuse of eminent domain city wide by Columbia University mass evicting Manhattanville to Willets Point to Ratner in Brooklyn, I am told the NY Times building got built thanks to eminent domain -- you tell me yes or no? And there is more.... And the horror show at Coney Island -- did you ever get the feeling your existence is an inconvenient truth. We have yet to be offered one way air plane tickets by the mayor but I always said the only thing John Sexton, president of NYU, Mike Bloomberg and socialite mega millionaire city planner haven't done is provide NYU buses, trains and trolleys to move us out.
Mike Bloomberg and his socialite city planner who act like they do not represent the people but greedy community crushing developers posing as higher ed and greedy developers not posing do not get their legacy is an ugly one and add denying us a referendum to Bloomberg's stained legacy of shame.
NYU and Cooper Union don't even need to abuse eminent domain to get the job done and they use their not for profit status like a tax shelter for land grabs and I mean vertically busting through zoning. Cooper Union has done one build that feels criminal by the black cube at Astor Place which has nothing to do with higher ed but great real estate holdings and ditto for the next act which again feels like a criminal act aided and abetted by socialite mega millionaire city planner Amanda Burden, tearing down their little yellow Science Building across the street to supersize and again lease for 99 years.
Under Bloomberg it has all been a sham and a shame. The people of this great city have been betrayed at every level by the people supposedly representing them with a few exceptions.
Mayor Bloomberg you are a disgrace.
