Eric Adams needs a spine of steel to stop Council lunacy scuttling Garment District plan

Mayor Adams wants to turn obsolete buildings into apartments. Left-of-Lenin Council members don’t want to help, and unions are making a naked power grab too.

New York City has a critical housing shortage.

Mayor Adams’ plan to bring life to the depressing, empty streets of the Garment District and other parts of the West 30s and 40s is bold.The shadowy cross-blocks in the West 30s and 40s are post-pandemic Manhattan’s most depressing places to stroll, nearly devoid of activity even at midday. They’ll demand that new homes be “affordable” even to bums on the street. Recall, for example, how Council member Kristen Richardson Jordan, who’s mercifully retiring, torpedoed a big Harlem project because the developer declined to give apartments away almost for free.

But Gale Brewer, a water-carrier for unions, warned Garodnick, “Don’t mess with the Garment Center. We need those jobs.”

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