{"id":167192,"date":"2021-01-31T04:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-push-to-pay-off-hotel-union-will-clobber-nycs-economy\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T04:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T01:31:54","slug":"de-blasio-push-to-pay-off-hotel-union-will-clobber-nycs-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-push-to-pay-off-hotel-union-will-clobber-nycs-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio push to pay off hotel union will clobber NYC’s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio push to pay off hotel union will clobber NYC’s economy<\/strong>”
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Before leaving office, Mayor de Blasio is determined to prove he\u2019s an \u201chonest politician\u201d \u2014 that is, one who stays bought. And nothing makes the case like his push to protect the hotel-workers\u2019 union, despite the devastating blow it would deal the city\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

Hizzoner all but promised the Hotel Trades Council that he\u2019d snuff out competition from new hotels, or at least ensure they\u2019d be unionized, after the group endorsed his embarrassing White House bid in 2019 \u2014 and provided 70 percent of his donors, as The Post reported.<\/p>\n

Now the mayor\u2019s racing to make good: Officials moved ahead with a hearing last week on his plan to force each and every new hotel developer to seek a \u201cspecial permit\u201d from the city and complete a long, expensive and influence-peddling-prone Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, a requirement sure to dissuade any sane developer from putting up a new hotel.<\/p>\n

This, when the pandemic has devastated local hotels: As The Post\u2019s Carl Campanile reported Tuesday, city figures show 146 have shut, representing a full third <\/em>of available rooms. Hotel Association head Vijay Dandapani says it\u2019s more like 200 hotels: \u201cWe fell off a cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n

With hotels gone and no new ones to replace them, the city won\u2019t be able to accommodate tourists when they start returning post-pandemic \u2014 especially given Hizzoner\u2019s other favor to the union: strangling alternative lodging like Airbnb.<\/p>\n

Could there be a better way to stop the city\u2019s post-COVID economic recovery in its tracks? Pre-pandemic tourism, a 2018 report noted,<\/a> ranked among Gotham\u2019s top industries, accounting for nearly 300,000 jobs \u2014 more than the financial sector. A quarter of sales at restaurants and bars, also on life support thanks to the lockdowns, came from tourists.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the city offers no credible rationale for the plan. \u201cWe\u2019ve got so much development,\u201d claims the mayor, which clearly isn\u2019t true for hotels these days but is a matter for the market in any case.<\/p>\n

He also says hotels create \u201cmore activity\u201d and \u201cvehicular traffic,\u201d impacting communities. But that\u2019s what zoning is for; there\u2019s no need to put every potential developer through a lengthy process that\u2019ll cost a fortune and possibly lead to a dead end. In districts where the city already requires special permits, not a single hotel has been built.<\/p>\n

No wonder planning experts rip the plan: It \u201cfails to identify any problems caused by hotels in commercial districts,\u201d notes former City Planning Department counsel David Karnovsky. \u201cThere will be no special permits issued, if history is any guide,\u201d predicts hotel-design architect Gene Kaufman.<\/p>\n

For de Blasio, of course, that\u2019ll be Mission Accomplished \u2014 and a political debt paid.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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