City Council Task Force Meeting on the Dept of Buildings

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You can see me and the paper wrongly states I am anti-development.  I am not.  I am anti-this tsunami of supersized community crushing development.

Dec. 2006 City Council Task Force meeting on DOB

WE talked about this!!!

I know I did and it was a packed house.  I talked about how many construction workers had died at that point and I did bring in infrastructure and evictions as in the lack of affordable housing and of course the tear down of St. Ann's and infrastructure concerns...

why at a DOB city council task force meeting?

Because it is all related!!!!!  You cannot hand out the many permits to build,  supersize at world record paces and not have it impact people's safety and that is above and below ground -- INFRASTRUCTURE  and it was clear this tsunami was for mega dorms, sky piercing luxury condos and hotels and yes mostly all on an old infrastructure.

I keep mentioning the pregnant women that spoke and her concerns about what they were inhaling from the construction sites and there are so many everywhere you go.  And NYU got passes to work 7 days a week and as late as 9PM weekdays for the majority of their mega speed build and under the "not for profit" status -- what a racquet from not paying taxes to the long term noise pollution to pollution and in the context of the horrible tragedy yesterday -- more deaths, more injuries, more people traumatized and more homeless...more people grieving.

So tired of the talk and no action.  No accountability and if the mayor says they don't have the money than slow it down until you have the money.  Bear Stearns just got bailed out, how about NYC?

I guess we won't get action until someone rich and powerful is killed in yet another construction or infrastructure tragedy.  

We have had two tragedies that looked like terrorist attacks, the infrastructure debacle by Grand Central and now this crane tragedy.

In the meantime I can't stop remembering that two amazing good souls Firemen Bobby Beddia and Joseph Graffagino are dead because they take down of the toxic waste dump Deutsche Bank could not have moved slower.  If only NYU had wanted to build a mega dorm there they would be alive.

It is clear who the  Mayor favors and  it is just hard to believe these horrible tragedy is going to make a difference. Why should it.  What is the death toll and number of injuries post 9-11 re: infrastructure and construction and include scaffolding when you answer my question?  Post 9-11 our firehouses closed, lower the NYPD starting salary, and more budget cuts are too come.  There only seems money for the support of mega builds and for little else.

I am angry, I am sad and I am so tired...so tired.