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mowotlarx t1_j730op3 wrote

>On Tuesday, EDC’s executive committee voted to modify the 2017 agreement so that instead of having to spend the $15 million to improve the pier and install new passenger boarding bridges, Ports America is required only to spend $120,000, primarily to install WiFi in the terminal.

EDC shouldn't exist. Why are we funneling city money to a non-city agency "non profit" and allowing them to manage the funds for MASSIVE developments?

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acheampong14 t1_j74uzpc wrote

“Instead, Ports America is newly committing to spend $15 million on constructing improvements at Manhattan’s Pier 90.” I don’t see what the issue is. All this fake outrage.

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mowotlarx t1_j76c2qp wrote

Gee I wonder why people would be mad that they abandoned a project in Brooklyn for one in Manhattan.

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Inevitable_Celery510 t1_j761l7v wrote

They destroyed Community Boards which once held that power. Young voters have no idea how quickly they destroyed the power of community.

EDCs are the governing body, not the mayor, not the commissioners. The young need to wake up and take the power back before it’s 100% gone!

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mowotlarx t1_j76bxsu wrote

Community boards never spoke for the community. They speak for a very small subset of older, more conservative, folks (usually white, usually car owners) who vote in each other and do nothing but try to stop younger people from changing communities in even the smallest ways. They are one of the worst things the city could have thought up to speak for communities. Make them elected positions or dissolve them already.

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