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Quinn a Jacobs-ean nightmare

Published: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:47 PM CDT
 
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To The Editor:

Re “Jane Jacobs, mother of urban planning, gets her ‘Way,’ (photo, July 16):

I was appalled to see the picture of Christine Quinn unveiling a street sign honoring Jane Jacobs in Chelsea Now. Christine Quinn is about as far from Jane Jacobs as you can get, and using Jacobs’s name and legacy to try to color her own awful track record is particularly sickening.

Is this not the same politician who has received record contributions from the real estate industry and developers, whose initiatives she almost always supports? Is this not the same politician who presided over the rezoning of West Chelsea and Hudson Yards to allow huge luxury residential development with the promise of affordable housing that never materialized? Is this not the same politician who has enabled mega-developer The Related Companies to get its hands on the West Side Railyards, where they plan to build a forest of huge new luxury high-rises, hotels and office buildings—which will bring huge traffic and pollution to our neighborhood and no benefits? Is this not the same politician who, as Speaker of the City Council, has supported huge development projects over community opposition all over the city—from Atlantic Yards and DUMBO to the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights?

And now she wants to claim she is “honoring” Jane Jacobs? The greatest honor she could pay Jane Jacobs would be to resign from office.

Meredith Handelman






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