My memory has AOC stopping a disgraceful government handout to a large corporation.
Some nice housing could be built on the site. NYC needs more nice housing.
They tried that but that wasn’t allowed either.
From the article:
An alternative project called “Your LIC” that included residential-commercial towers at the site was also recently shot down amid not-in-my-back-yard opposition and lack of support from City Hall. The plan claimed it would create 26,000 jobs, open space and cultural amenities.
The Your LIC consortium included manufacturer Plaxall, the major property owner on the waterfront site along with the City of New York.
It wasn’t to be.
“Their plans weren’t going to offer enough benefits to the community, and we’re not going to let private developers ignore their obligations to New Yorkers,” said Mitchell Schwartz, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio.
There’s just no pleasing them.