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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
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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.
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