Jewish Billionaire Opens Truck Depot in Harlem after being vetoed

[FrontoBama]

Fight between former Giuliani aide and democratic Socialist tanks major housing project

Bruce Teitelbaum, once a top aide to former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani, found the fate of his 1-million-square-foot proposal in the hands of one of the most far-left members of the New York City Council — Kristen Richardson Jordan.

www.politico.com

2022

The tension between the brash businessman and novice politician boiled over last week, when a stalemate led him to yank his proposal and blow off a meeting with high-ranking members of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.
In the end, Bruce Teitelbaum, once a top aide to former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani, found the fate of his 1-million-square-foot proposal in the hands of one of the most far-left members of the New York City Council — Kristen Richardson Jordan, who goes by KRJ. And despite his close ties to Adams, the first-term Democratic mayor, Teitelbaum could not build the necessary support among Richardson Jordan’s 50 colleagues to achieve his goal

2023

HARLEM, NY — A large controversial truck depot officially will open Wednesday morning on a Harlem block once slated to hold a massive and equally contentious residential development, developer Bruce Teitelbaum told Patch.

The first trucks are slated to come rolling into the pit-stop on West 145th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard — the proposed site of the ill-fated One45 rezoning project — about 10:30 a.m., the developer said.
"Today, instead of celebrating the construction of 917 units of desperately needed housing in Harlem and NYC's first ever Geo-Thermal Green Energy District, which would have drastically reduced carbon emissions in the community, we are reluctantly commencing with Plan B that starts with a truck depot," Teitelbaum told Patch in a statement

“
Harlem already has above-average rates of childhood asthma and pollution when compared to other areas of the city.

Teitelbaum responded by pointing to his rejected housing development, which he said would have been an environmental and economic boon to the neighborhood.”

TLDR: Jewish developer and Guiliani aide buys land in Harlem. Land is not zoned for housing but he wants to build massive housing complex with little affordable housing, Black Harlem council member vanquishes the cac and vetoes the development, citing the lack of affordable housing and how it would affect Harlem. In response Jewish billionaire opens a truck depot for the big pollution causing trucks to idle in Harlem, which already has elevated asthma numbers.

 

[FrontoBama]

'This is a False Choice': Kristin Richardson Jordan Isn’t Sorry She Killed the One45 Development - Hell Gate

We talked about with Jordan about she pressed for more low-income housing on the site, her thoughts about the developer and the truck depot, why she supported other rezonings like InnovationQNS, and what she still hopes for the future of the site.

hellgatenyc.com

In 2021, Teitelbaum petitioned for a rezoning of a plot of land he owned on West 145th Street in Harlem, with the goal of turning the L-shaped site into two residential towers, retail space, and initially, a civil rights museum helmed by Al Sharpton. At the time, the project included only the minimum in below-market rate housing required by such a rezoning, prompting opposition from the local community board, from Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and most notably, from newly elected Councilmember Kristin Richardson Jordan, a self-avowed socialist. Jordan and other local leaders pushed for more low-income housing on the site, which led Teitelbaum to pledge to increase the number of below-market rate units to about 50 percent of the total (112 units at 30 percent of the area median income, 255 at 50 percent AMI, and 91 apartments at 125 percent AMI, out of a total of 915 apartments).

Jordan still wasn't satisfied, arguing that most of the "affordable" housing wasn’t affordable to Harlem residents, not to mention the market-rate units. Because official AMI calculations sample from a large area, she argued, the developer was working off of an area median income of $93,400, where the median income in the immediate neighborhood was actually $36,804. (There was also the pesky issue that the City hadn't yet committed to funding some of the below-market rate units Teitelbaum promised.) Last May, facing the prospect of the City Council deferring to Jordan's position and voting down his rezoning, Teitelbaum withdrew his application.

Black New York Woman, socialist, didn’t go to an HBCU.

This is what Black people who. “Work within the system” advocate for.

 

[Amo Husserl]

The paths of two of the more eccentric figures in New York’s political and real estate circles would likely not have crossed, but for a massive piece of land in Harlem. On the West 145th Street site that houses Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, the financier sees prime development opportunity for nearly 1,000 new apartments — while the City Council member sees unchecked greed threatening the Black epicenter of New York City.

Happens when a community of people don't lock a city down.

The barrier to get into city, state and government departments handling real estate is a real issue for us.

 

[FrontoBama]

On a site where nikkas went 50 pages trying to start an international incident on the idea that African Americans in Seattle were under siege, I expect that the cultural genesis of African American culture being held as a sacrificial lamb in civic disputes would ruffle some feathers, no?

But then again, this is the site that thanked Guiliani for cleaning up Harlem so who knows

 

[Gritsngravy]

They couldn’t vote on the truck depot

 

[Secure Da Bag]

unaffordable housingmore pollution???

 

[bnew]

'This is a False Choice': Kristin Richardson Jordan Isn’t Sorry She Killed the One45 Development - Hell Gate

We talked about with Jordan about she pressed for more low-income housing on the site, her thoughts about the developer and the truck depot, why she supported other rezonings like InnovationQNS, and what she still hopes for the future of the site.

hellgatenyc.com

Black New York Woman, socialist, didn’t go to an HBCU.

This is what Black people who. “Work within the system” advocate for.

i don't see the problem with her decision, it was a bullshyt proposal.

Because official AMI calculations sample from a large area, she argued, the developer was working off of an area median income of $93,400, where the median income in the immediate neighborhood was actually $36,804.

 

[bnew]

he was planning on fukking the community one way or the other.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

he was planning on fukking the community one way or the other.

Gentrification is what it was.

 

[chineebai]

There’s already an mta bus depot on 148th. That area has a lot of pollution with multiple gas stations and trucks pass by to go to the Bronx via the bridge.

 

[FrontoBama]

i don't see the problem with her decision, it was a bullshyt proposal.

My point was the futility in the whole thing.

She is precisely what the average Black American would say we need to save our people.

“If you don’t like the system then go to school and run for city council”

This shows that even when exercising/mobilizing political clout on the CIVIC level they have mechanisms to further stunt our development,

edit: I realized now that by pointing out she was a Black woman from New York in Coli minds that may have been perceived as being negative.

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

I wonder what's the best way sabotage this?

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Is this an example of environmental racism?

HARLEM, NY — A large controversial truck depot officially will open Wednesday morning on a Harlem block once slated to hold a massive and equally contentious residential development, developer Bruce Teitelbaum told Patch.

The first trucks are slated to come rolling into the pit-stop on West 145th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard — the proposed site of the ill-fated One45 rezoning project — about 10:30 a.m., the developer said.
"Today, instead of celebrating the construction of 917 units of desperately needed housing in Harlem and NYC's first ever Geo-Thermal Green Energy District, which would have drastically reduced carbon emissions in the community, we are reluctantly commencing with Plan B that starts with a truck depot," Teitelbaum told Patch in a statement

“
Harlem already has above-average rates of childhood asthma and pollution when compared to other areas of the city.

Teitelbaum responded by pointing to his rejected housing development, which he said would have been an environmental and economic boon to the neighborhood.”

 

[getmoney310cpt]

Kayne was right

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I wonder what's the best way sabotage this?

honestly in city council. this shyt should get enough community support to get rezoned. it's right next to residential buildings. fukk that.