What a shitty headline. Mayor vetoed the proposal. Kelly spoke to him and agreed on Baraka's points. They are apparently going to find another way to do what Kelly wanted and it's being hashed out.

I hate that no mediums have gotten past this kind of shit in a hundred years of news.

Community boards like this are bad. They serve to prevent development. We already have local elected officials and professional planning boards where the public can speak. Who chooses who sits on a community board? Who gets to represent the community? We have elections to decide that. NYC has these and they’re fucking terrible. At a minimum the extra time and effort to get through ends up raising the cost of a building and requires higher rents to make up for it. Hope it stays dead.

Fueling housing crisis

Maybe it's not the medium but the consumers who will tend to consume sensationalized headlines over reasonable ones?

That’s blaming the victim.

Can we stop calling him the "Hip Hop Councilman" in every headline? He is just a councilman now.

It's more lip service nonsense. Sounds touchy Feely and nice in theory, in reality it's more inept corrupt and slow government bureaucracy.