Posted on 08/11/2023 8:42:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The ultimate monument to moving on — or a misguided attempt at reparations?
Survivors and first responders devastated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks are divided over news that they can apply for “affordable” apartments in a ritzy new building just steps from Ground Zero.
The 900-foot skyscraper, 5 World Trade Center, will be constructed at the corner of Greenwich and Albany streets in lower Manhattan and is set to feature 1,200 plush apartments — and haunting views overlooking the site where more than 2,900 New Yorkers were murdered.
As part of a new agreement brokered by Gov. Kathy Hochul, 80 of the building’s required 400 rent-stabilized units will be set aside for New Yorkers directly impacted by the attacks — but some survivors are baffled by the deal.
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The Smoking Hole Villas.
We not only forgot, we forgot in spectacular fashion.
If I owned the building and had to set aside below market rate apartments, I would rather it be families of 9/11 victims than the usual section 8 housing crowd. I wonder if the owners were fighting for more than 80 -- maybe even the full 400 subsidized apartments.
Still, it does sound more like something "our dear friends, the Saudis" would sponsor.
Surely not something we'd expect from a loyal patriotic red-blooded freedom loving American like the saintly New York governor!
That's a direct conflict of interest.
TOTALLY TASTELESS MOVE
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