Yo, Adrienne. You really need some fresh material.
City council speaker Adrienne Adams turns in buttons to attack mayor Eric Adams on home policy, one of the things he actually did well.
In the last example, she destroyed him before using his first veto for land use for the Bally’s Casino plan, ‘no housing’.
But when had the mayor helped with a veto?
I cannot think of any anti-housing actions that the Adams office has reached for signing or veto.
I asked the Council’s press office if it had examples. Crickets.
The reason is fairly simple. When the council blocks a residential development, the application is always withdrawn before it reaches a complete vote from the council. As a result, it never comes to the mayor.
For example, when the council crushed the $ 115 million project from Nadine Oelsner to build homes with mixed income, a daycare center and production space on an empty lot in Crown Heights, it did without voting. So there was nothing for mayor Adams for veto too veto.
When the council fled the mayor of the mayor of the mayor, which reduced the expected number of new houses from more than 100,000 to 82,000, it was not really an option, because that would have killed the entire plan.
Finally, I checked, 82,000 houses are much better than none.
The second part of the speaker’s statement said: “The mayor cannot claim to have the most pro-housing in city history when he and Randy Mastro Elizabeth Street Garden killed affordable homes approved by the council six years ago.”
On his own? The speaker seems to have forgotten the role that one of her own members, Chris Marte, played in killing that Nolita Senior Housing Project.
Marte opposed the project and killed it by using his leverage about other, much larger housing developments that Mastro and the mayor wanted to build in his district. Marte agreed to support them on condition that the Elizabeth Street project would be abandoned.
Speaker Adams might have prevented this by promising those three projects to be approved by her room about Marte’s objections. But she is an apologist for the reverence of the members, the council tradition that gave Marte the power to reduce his deal with Mastro.
The speaker has previously been against the Reverend: she supported a blood center project in Midtown East that the local member, Ben Kallos, resisted. But that was not a housing project.
The One45 of Bruce Teitelbaum in Harlem, however, was a residential project, with more than 900 units, half of them affordable. But the city councilor, Kristin Richardson Jordan, stopped it in 2021. Where was the speaker then?
Again, Adams could not pronounce Jordan’s decision, because Teitelbaum had withdrawn the request before the council could vote. If the speaker had come to him and said: “Don’t put in your plan, I will go through it,” more than 2,000 New Yorkers would soon enjoy new Harlemhuizen.
Perhaps the speaker could not have collected 26 votes to overcome Jordan, her radical Harlem colleague,, but Adams could have put together 18 votes to support a mayor Veto. But if that kind of scenarios do not happen by accident. They require a foresight, cunning and guts.
In that project, the speaker Adams was saved because Jordan was not re -elected and her successor approved the revised request of Teitelbaum. She can also be saved on Oelsner’s, because the next re -use of Crown Heights Oelsner enables you to build what she had planned (with even less affordability, if she wants).
If the speaker starts calling the mayor and his best assistant for leaving the Elizabeth Street project, she would also have to call councilor Marte. Or at least acknowledge the role that the response of the council played in that fiasco.
Bad blood between the speaker and mayor feeds this little bickering. That happens in politics. But small bickering does not produce housing.
In her bid on Mayor Adams received 4 percent of the votes in the Democratic Primary. In his offer for re -election in November, Eric Adams is the polling by 7 percent. Their political career is declining and their time is coming to an end. They must use their remaining months to do something constructive.
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