Showing posts with label real estate developers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real estate developers. Show all posts

Monday, July 15, 2013

Christine Quinn's ongoing slush fund scandal

Letter in Saturday's Daily News : "Par for Quinn’s course"

Manhattan: It should surprise no one that Christine Quinn has rewarded groups that donated generously to her campaign with large amounts of taxpayer money (“City Council Speaker Christine Quinn awards hundreds of thousands of dollars to nonprofit groups that have helped her mayoral campaign,” NYDailyNews.com, July 3). This is how Quinn has done business for years, consistently making deals favoring the wealthiest New Yorkers (i.e real estate developers) at the expense of the low- and middle-class New Yorkers she claims to fight for. Mickey Kramer

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Christine Quinn NYU Expansion YouTube Video

NYU wants to "grow" in Greenwich Village with 2 million square feet of new construction costing billions of dollars. But how will NYU pay for it? They won't release the business plan... NYU's project will crush the Village—and its students will be crushed by debt. City Council: Stop the Bloomberg-Quinn giveaway to NYU! Watch the viral video now and join the fight at StandUp4NYC.com