{"id":7510,"date":"2014-07-28T23:13:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T04:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2014-07-28T23:13:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T04:13:43","slug":"once_we_stood_grandly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/once_we_stood_grandly.html","title":{"rendered":"Once We Stood Grandly . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/07\/28\/de-blasio-voted-for-luxury-building-poor-door-as-councilman\/\">now we slink out through the poor door<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor de Blasio and other officials denouncing &#8220;poor door&#8221; entrances for subsidized tenants in luxury buildings actually voted in favor of a measure that made such separation possible, a Post review found.<\/p>\n<p>When the lengthy text of a zoning resolution was amended by the City Council in July 2009, then-Councilman Bill de Blasio &#8212; who arrived late to the meeting &#8212; was among the majority who voted &#8220;aye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One provision said developers of market-rate condos could include affordable units on site, instead of off-site, while allowing for the separation of a number of services that included the entrances.<\/p>\n<p>But de Blasio&#8217;s vote didn&#8217;t stop City Hall officials last week from putting the blame for the controversial Extell Development project at 40 Riverside Blvd. &#8212; which will have separate entrance for subsidized tenants &#8212; solely on former Mayor Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Among the other elected officials who voted in favor of the 2009 zoning changes are current Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Public Advocate Letitia James.<\/p>\n<p>The two were among those who took part in a press conference on the steps of City Hall this past Friday condemning the prior administration for signing off on the project.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . now we slink out through the poor door: Mayor de Blasio and other officials denouncing &#8220;poor door&#8221; entrances for subsidized tenants in luxury buildings actually voted in favor of a measure that made such separation possible, a Post review found. When the lengthy text of a zoning resolution was amended by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7511,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}