{"id":70990,"date":"2020-09-19T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mayor-de-blasios-only-real-achievement-is-now-under-threat\/"},"modified":"2020-09-19T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T15:57:56","slug":"mayor-de-blasios-only-real-achievement-is-now-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayor-de-blasios-only-real-achievement-is-now-under-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mayor de Blasio’s only real achievement is now under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mayor de Blasio’s only real achievement is now under threat<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n New Yorkers who loathe Mayor de Blasio\u2019s \u201cprogressive\u201d shtick, indifference to quality of life and hostility to profit-making might have been flummoxed over his celebration of new skyscraper One Vanderbilt this past week.<\/p>\n

Damn if he didn\u2019t sound like a card-carrying capitalist when he cut the tower\u2019s ribbon with a sword. He thanked developer SL Green for putting up \u201can extraordinary building\u201d and reminded the crowd that he was proud to have been at the groundbreaking four years ago.<\/p>\n

This seemed awfully peculiar from a mayor driven by a bias toward poorer New Yorkers and disaffection for the \u201crich.\u201d But for all our mayor\u2019s egregious failings \u2014 budget-bloating, sabotage of the NYPD, and wretched \u201cmanagement\u201d of schools, homelessness and child-support services \u2014 de Blasio was often a surprisingly decent steward of the city\u2019s real-estate agenda.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was for the wrong reasons, such as to keep contributions flowing from real-estate moguls who hated him from day one. And it\u2019s hardly a perfect record. Letting the streets turn violent and filthy isn\u2019t the way to boost property values.<\/p>\n

Even so, much of the mayor\u2019s drive to promote new construction and the tax revenue it brings was unexpectedly sane, especially during his first term.<\/p>\n

Over objections from anti-gentrification zealots, de Blasio rezoned underdeveloped residential neighborhoods such as East New York and East Harlem to allow desperately needed, larger and modern new apartment buildings. His first city planning commissioner, Carl Weisbrod, engineered two huge achievements that eluded former Mayor Michael Bloomberg \u2014 a Vanderbilt Avenue rezoning that made the new office tower possible and, later, a rezoning of all of East Midtown, which suffered from obsolete office buildings that were on average 70 years old.<\/p>\n

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This past week, de Blasio celebrated the opening of the new One Vanderbilt skyscraper, calling it \u201can extraordinary building.\u201d<\/span>James Messerschmidt<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His inclusionary-housing program, which required a certain number of affordable units in new residential buildings in rezoned areas, didn\u2019t create that many cheaper apartments \u2014 under 2,000, according to estimates \u2014 but it did bring new mid-priced homes and new investment. Local crazies accused him of promoting gentrification, a sure sign that he was doing the right thing.<\/p>\n

This is all worth noting because \u2014 panic alert! \u2014 the people vying to succeed him would happ<\/a>ily let our mostly antiquated buildings rot for good. Prospective mayoral candidates such as Comptroller Scott Stringer, Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams stand to de Blasio\u2019s left (if that\u2019s possible) on lots of issues. None has shown much enthusiasm for new development.<\/p>\n

Even if one proposal or another were to pass their identity-politics-driven litmus tests, their tepid endorsement would wilt in the face of any bang-the-drums opposition from politicians and the courts. Some council members regard the possibility of a few more Starbucks on their turfs as a racist conspiracy to chase out longtime residents. Other lawmakers who have a large say in Big Apple land-use matters \u2014 e.g., state Sen. Mike Gianaris, who helped kill the Amazon deal in Long Island City, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 are also on board with the \u201chell, no\u201d mood.<\/p>\n

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Future mayoral candidates Scott Stringer, Corey Johnson and Eric Adams (from left) haven\u2019t shown much enthusiasm for new development.<\/span>Robert Miller; Taidgh Barron; Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently, de Blasio has turned chicken. He punted, backed down on or inexplicably stalled a number of sound initiatives (including plans to develop a splendid Halletts Point complex in Astoria), and the lunatic fringe now holds sway.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a preview of what\u2019s in store when he\u2019s gone: a city where pols, protestors and the courts will torpedo legitimate progress. Bill, I almost miss you already.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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