The follow-up to last week's Community Board 10 Land Use Committee review to restore the West 129th Street cul-de-sac into a functioning road for the planned new $100 million Harlem Children's Zone building was basically a "NO" according to DNAinfo:
LINK. Regardless of the vote, the housing authority also confirmed that the plans to continue 129th Street between FDB/8th Avenue and ACP/7th Avenue will proceed since CB10 consent is only advisory. As mentioned in the past, the new charter school will help the cash-strapped NYCHA use underutilized land within a major public housing complex uptown to help subsidize its upkeep along with providing resources to its residents. Most of these larger Urban Renewal superblocks have also displaced the cities grid street system back in the mid 20th century and this will be one of the first times that a side thoroughfare will be reintroduced.
Thankfully their vote is only advisory.
ReplyDeleteI just don’t get it. People can be very short sighted. Here is a way out of the projects if not for them at least for their children and they want to hold on to their little suburban cul de sac?
ReplyDeleteMum I could not have said it better. I have been trying to understand that mentality for years now.
ReplyDeleteProbably the same reason the pro-education reform mayor of DC was voted out of office in November for old-school politics as usual. So sad.
ReplyDeleteSo absurd.
ReplyDeleteThe NYCHA is cash-strapped. Perhaps they should raise the rent at St. Nicholas Houses. Maybe then the tenants would be more amenable to having a school there.
I wonder if you live in the projects you have to pay for parking. . . anyone know?
ReplyDeleteIdiotic Community Board. Probably just upset the charter school won't have any nice kickbacks or sinecures for their relatives.
ReplyDeleteThis is just embarrassing. No doubt some of it was instigated by the teacher's union or otherwise attributable to their rent-seeking behavior -- but is it really too much to ask for the CB members to think rationally about something?
ReplyDeleteAnd the following is just golden -- I'll refrain from any further comment on my part:
"'These are our projects. These are our tax dollars,' St. Nicholas Housing residents chanted at a raucous meeting before where police were called into the room."