Well-told tale again by Eleanor. A couple of thoughts. 1) Maybe not hit Bryant Daniels so hard. He's very resident-oriented, but he has a job. He can't keep it if he steps outside the parameters he's given. He's not the decision-maker. That's Team Hochul ultimately and, more immediately, CEO Jones.
I agree that the fix is in and has been for a while. This is how business has been done behind closed doors with one developer for over a decade. It will be hard knocking down that wall.
Which brings us back to the same question: Where the hell is Julie Menin? HPD is a city agency, and Menin is - allegedly - our city council member. Unlike Gifford, Jessica and Ben before her, Julie is invisible. Her eyes are on the mayor's job, not on Roosevelt Island. Until someone rattles her cage, the odds against breaking up this backroom deal are very large.
You are right. Bryant being community oriented is factual. Your point on him carrying out the narrowing for those above also holds. Eleanor's piece records how the structure enforces that narrowing and how three women still tested it. Documenting those moments matters while the fix remains in.
Eleanor keeps surfacing the moments the process is designed to bury. I keep mapping the legal and procedural framework. You keep exposing where the institutional glue was applied. We keep the lights on. One story at a time.
Well-told tale again by Eleanor. A couple of thoughts. 1) Maybe not hit Bryant Daniels so hard. He's very resident-oriented, but he has a job. He can't keep it if he steps outside the parameters he's given. He's not the decision-maker. That's Team Hochul ultimately and, more immediately, CEO Jones.
I agree that the fix is in and has been for a while. This is how business has been done behind closed doors with one developer for over a decade. It will be hard knocking down that wall.
Which brings us back to the same question: Where the hell is Julie Menin? HPD is a city agency, and Menin is - allegedly - our city council member. Unlike Gifford, Jessica and Ben before her, Julie is invisible. Her eyes are on the mayor's job, not on Roosevelt Island. Until someone rattles her cage, the odds against breaking up this backroom deal are very large.
You are right. Bryant being community oriented is factual. Your point on him carrying out the narrowing for those above also holds. Eleanor's piece records how the structure enforces that narrowing and how three women still tested it. Documenting those moments matters while the fix remains in.
Exactly. How to break that?
Eleanor keeps surfacing the moments the process is designed to bury. I keep mapping the legal and procedural framework. You keep exposing where the institutional glue was applied. We keep the lights on. One story at a time.
Chip, chip, chip...
Bravo to Lisa for mentioning the unmentionable as if it was so obvious and certain, she could bring it up without hesitation.