A bad day for Diana Reyna; a good day for Vito Lopez — the City Council voted to pass the Broadway Triangle plan, 36-10-4. Aaron Short has some scenes from the day, along with choice quotes.

“Do not disturb the process,” said Maritza Davila, instructing the crowd as they moved inside. “Remember we are civilized and we come in peace.” Yes, they’re civilized, that’s why instead of just mugging their neighbors on the streets, they wait for them to pay taxes and then use the political process they control to build big tacky publicly-financed housing monstrosities, residence in which only those connected to the organizations in charge of contracting could hope to ever possibly have access due to RBSCC‘s and UJO’s stranglehold on the application process. Plush new luxury housing for the skill- and jobless connected; those suckers living in crumbling railroads and paying their own way get to foot the bill. Now that’s what I call class war.

For her part, Reyna is quoted blathering one of her typical non-sequitur comments — if you’ve ever heard her speak you know what I’m talking about — in an effort just to, I don’t know, be quoted I guess: “It is unfathomable in this day and age that we will allow politics to get in the way of a community that suffers from displacement and gentrification.” Somehow I have a feeling she has all sides scratching their heads on this one.

Among other awful urban planning news, self-sustaining industrial and service area Willets Point in Queens is to be wiped off the map in favor of a ton of condos and probably a mall; Hudson Yards in Manhattan is also slated to get a ton of condos and probably a mall; and mixed news on other fascist-Corbusian and Krugmanesque “job-creating” schemes throughout the city.