(photo credit: New York Magazine) Our Councilman, Bill deBlasio, did it again! He showed up an hour late for the Carroll Gardens Forum on Landmarking, only one of the most important meetings about the neighborhood's future in recent memory. He gave a little speech and then left half an hour later. Granted, his right-hand-man, Tom Gray, was there from the beginning, but Mr.DeBlasio seems to have a real problem with showing up on time. As he walked through the auditorium of P.S.58 last night, members of the audience exchanged glances and rolled their eyes. Somebody in the crowd whispered "Amazing," in pure disbelief that he managed yet again to miss the beginning of a meeting. After all, Assemblywoman Joan Millman was in her seat at exactly 6:30 PM.
It was a sweet moment. Bill deBlasio was finally being confronted and scolded about his lack of response to Carroll Gardens. And deservedly so. He absolutely dropped the ball regarding 360 Smith Street, going for theatrics and press exposure rather than giving our community some clear answers. It was just a matter of time before he needed to justify himself. So, good for C.O.R.D. As I was walking out, I overheard that the group was going to finally meet with the Councilman for a sit down meeting, a meeting that he had promised them MONTHS ago.
Way to go, Bill DeBlahblah, way to go!
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4 comments:
We must admit that he did his (politician) job... you mentioned his name.
From my side, I just noticed that someone came and interrupted an interesting meeting. Some kind of Show-off. The Police did nothing against this exhibition...
At least he put in an appearance. He couldn't give a rat's patoutie about what is happening east of Hoyt. I noticed that the CGNA featured 340 Bond and 333 Carroll St. but Bill didn't bother to mention those buildings. It seems also that Bill's "right hand man" has stopped responding to periodic requests for a 333 update.
He could have at least offered and apology for his tardiness. Or maybe he sees the writing on the wall and wants to focus on garnering the support of other neighborhoods for his BP run and he really just doesn't care about us.
Good for CORD.
Bill Blasé and Tom Gray are asleep at the wheel. Another fine grandstanding moment for Mr. Bill and another letdown for the constituency he represents.
Get ready for more of the same on the Public Place issue.
Yeah, all that jerk did was get city planning to commit to a down zoning, get the developer at 360 Smith to change his whole design, get a stop work order on 333 Carroll Street so it was not 2 stories taller (which if you check the DOB website there is still a SWO) and public place will be 50% plus affordable housing. Well, 50% affordable housing may screw up our wonderful gentrification.
That guy does not care! Let join together and criticism him to the point he withdraws the down zoning…are you with me?
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