Seems like an overly expensive project which primarily benefits a handful of wealthy homeowners in Brooklyn Heights. If we're going to spend this kind of money on the neighborhood we have to open it up for more families to live there.

Cha Cha real smooth

While projects opponents and their lawyer (cited in the article) is trying to frame 'blighted' narrowly on the quality of the building to support their legal argument that the area isn't blighted the definition of blight in NYS does allow for a much broader interpretation that can include land use and other conditions.

The city is full of apartments that could become affordable again if rich people stopped bidding up their rents. The entire lower east side is full of crappy walk-up apartments with outdated electrical systems and no ventilation, the problem is they are the only thing available in such a convenient location so rich people are paying stupid money to live there. Allowing new buildings can divert them from bidding up the rents of existing apartments when they become available allowing their rents to finally start to drop.

If they don't pop upa lot of people will be displaced, and if they do pop up hopefully they are actually big enough to absorb the increased demand for housing in the neighborhoods.

It has something about parking shortfalls no longer being an environmental issue

This entire proposal is an astroturf campaign. There is a well funded PR company putting this together. They have been running thousands of ads across multiple social media sites. They don't disclose who their clients are or indicate who is actually behind and funding the campaign. There is nothing grass roots about this proposal. If I had to guess it is by the same landlords who have been fighting against the governors proposal and who spent thousands of dollars on the last election trying to get a puppet candidate elected.

Greedy fucks.