In view of its longstanding disdain for the poor, the middle class and small businesses in this city, it comes as no surprise that the Bloomberg administration is driving the Willets Point occupants not simply out of the area, but out of business, with not just insufficient time to relocate, but no place to do so.
It equally comes as no surprise that the City Council, a full partner with Bloomberg in this gross malfeasance of government, remains silent, since it has long considered fat cat real estate moguls its true constituents and not the little people.
Calling Willets Point a blighted area while ignoring it was the city’s fault, and not selling but giving multibillionaires Willets Point property that cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars for $1 and approving a prioritized 1.4-million-square-foot shopping mall at Citi Field without a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure and replacement parkland would make Boss Tweed tip his hat in admiration.
Benjamin M. Haber
Flushing
