[pageonetoo]

Even taking the mobsters, beaurocrats and unions into account, $3 billion for 65,000 apartments seems way excessive!

Of course, it is excessive. This is a g'umt project, and there first have to be studies. then, after studying the situation, they need to form a group to oversee the project. then, there are the costs involved in land acquisition, and development. After that, there are bids that have to be rigged,oops, I meant bid.
Then, the operations begin construction. After that, the inspectors have to be paid off, oops, i mean paid.
Finally, there must be a new beaurocracy formed to oversee the leasing and maintainance, which is always high in g'umt housing.
Finally, there needs to be enough skimming to re-elect the swine that started it.
Yay, Bloomberg, a fine republicrat, in the name of 'compassion'.
I wonder if all the unemployed in NY, can smoke, at home? After closing so many businesses (reult ofbloomies' smoking ban), and causing massive losses to others, he isn't through raping the sheeple!

[hellinahandcart]

You're forgetting that public hearings will have to be held about where to place apartment buildings that illegal immigrants can easily afford to live in. And that environmental and social-justice activists will file lawsuits every month complaining about the "impact" of all the construction that isn't happening, and the lack of free services for the residents in buildings that don't exist. This project will move like a glacier.

There was a fund for new school construction, too. How many *new* schools have been built? I can't recall any.