Plain & simple, Reyna wants rent paying Americans vacated out of loft bldg!

About time you crawled out of your mouse hole! I knew I’ll Flush you out by my comments (e.g., “COP-OUT”, evasive, snake & hiding). Now that you have been Einstening my English grammar; I’ll try to save you from some sleepless nights…I’m not impressed!!! Maybe you can impress your hoodie friends with the use of parsing. Also please note: comments such…evasive, snake, hiding, dear “Reyna”, “COP OUT”,
Using caps, or quotes; are used by me as being cute, smug & full of sarcasm. I’m surprised you didn’t notice this a mile away!??? It just speaks volumes.

As I stated prior…my comments speak for themselves in reference to Dear “Reyna” & her real reasons about rezoning; which has nothing to do about bringing jobs to Bushwick.
My comments were right to the point without all the bullsh!t about rezoning; which is really a red herring issue!

I’m glad you were able to glean the gist of some my comments. I’ll restate again…Reyna, wants to continue the status quo…of tying to prevent the somewhat gentrification of Bushwick by voting no to the rezoning issue of said “Loft bldg” & basically wants all the rent paying tenants (American/Hipsters) vacated from the loft bldg for her own personal agenda (stop gentrification dead on its tracks).

Halden: you stated, Dear Reyna, can’t have the bldg because “councilmember’s do not have powers of eminent domain”, have you any idea or clue…that most of the inner city councilmember’s have no idea of NYC planning issues!!! Most are just voted in because they promise the world to their so-called constituents. This is what is called keeping your voting power base in check; by throwing some social program crumbs there way.

Anyway…thank you both for reply!

As for our discussion, I still believe that the city needs a healthy mix of uses and that government has a valid role in defining land use to that end. Without manufacturing, we lose good-paying jobs and goods and services become that much more expensive. Simply because an owner can earn a higher rent is not reason enough to rezone; there should be a net public benefit to the rezoning.

That said, our current zoning code and zoning boundaries are almost 50 years old. They are in sore need of revamping and revisiting. One change that could make a huge difference is real mixed-use zoning – allow light industry on the ground floor and residential above. 90% of manufacturing wants to be on the ground floor, and it would protect jobs and provide a needed flow of goods, while allowing much higher rents on the upper floors. Unfortunately, NY City Planning does not believe in this kind of mixed use zoning, as we learned in the waterfront rezoning.

(And a couple of historical corrections – when zoning was instituted in 1916, it was largely to separate noxious industries from *all* residential areas, in particular poorer neighborhoods. Much of Ladies’ Mile (with all its manufacturing loft buildings just off Fifth Avenue) developed *after* 1916. So it was not to protect the sensibilities of the ladies shopping on the avenues. And Bushwick has historically been mixed use, with much of the heavy manufacturing predating the urban residential development.)

Look, there are many examples of unnecessary things you do that make it difficult to understand what you are saying. “COP-OUT” needs neither allcaps nor quotes. Dear “Reyna” needs neither the “Dear” part (it’s not clear why it’s included) nor the quotes on Reyna, since that is her actual name. Furthermore, you brought up no “issue” to “answer” — at least not that I can see. The only thing I can glean from your babbling is that you think Reyna wants to keep the uneducated and lazy in residence in her district so that they can continue to elect her and her cronies — but since it’s clear to anyone here that of course I AGREE (at least in spirit) with such a statement, your charges of “evading,” “snaking,” and “hiding” from your arguments, such as they are, are completely ridiculous.

I once again ask you to please type in complete sentences like EVERYONE ELSE on this website does, or move along. If you cannot do that, you have filtered yourself out from participating in the world of ideas.

But…it must be good to hide behind it; from answering the real issue @ hand!!!

Yes, I sticking to my guns about Dear “Reyna” wants to use this building for her constituency based (i.e., the self-induced homeless, able body unemployed, current & former drug addicts lowlifes & fv<kups); plus all types of social programs & free gov’t/city handouts; in exchange for keeping her nice sweet paying gig @ the expense of vacating all working rent paying ppl mostly (so-called Hipsters); from the loft bldg. Not once you stating anything about
About the real issue to my posting. Inquiring minds want to know.

Jeremy Sapienza:
What a cop-out answer (gibberish)! Again…avoiding the issue of my post comments. Dear “Reyna” & her real plans
About vacating rent paying so-called hipsters (Americans) in her opposition of the loft bldg.