Chris Marte and Julie Won are doing a bangup job trying to take the crown of "most idiotic Democratic councilman" from KRJ.

The problem with environmental review is that it treats “do nothing, build nothing” as the default, environmentally-neutral choice. Failing to build is actively bad, because it forces people who would rather live sustainable, transit-based urban lifestyles into the car-dependent suburbs.

I think it's about to be over for Chinatown, some think it's the developers, but it's...well, it's rich white people who will eat up then pimp out their community, piece by piece, block by block, building by building. Chinatown is literally surrounded by rich, white and gentrified neighborhoods (Soho, Tribeca, LES Financial District, Jersey City, Williamsburg, DUMBO) and when rich whites want something in NYC/Manhattan, they tend to take it. Even if they win this battle, that is prime real estate and they will just start buying people out explicitly.

Dumb hill to die on

Most of the chinatown buildings are owned by few select asian families that had a pact long ago to never sell outside the group. If one ones to exit, the remaining get first dibs and pools to buy out the member leaving. Its how chinatown stayed chinatown for this long. Naturally as each generation pass, someone gets sway from from the pack with larger offers. Personally not a fan of these racial covenant and I will call it out and should be done away even if it means losing diluting the demographics of the area.

Area is prime real estate but good amount are RS/RC plus with buildings aging and ever costly to run based on the rent collected...who else is able to pay the higher rent but not the non asian folk to subsidize the remaining rent regulated units? plus exodus of its asian demographics to cheaper areas - harder to keep chinatown within the family.

Would argue - that chinatown needs non asian money to keep it afloat more than ever.

Yes, we need to build less housing, that’s the answer

This divisive, racialized view of EVERY issue is incredibly unhelpful. Thinking about problems in terms of competing ethic tribes never solved anything.

chinatowns over, businesses and homes are giving way to artisanal coffee shops and hipsters. even tenements are smelling like pot and u know the Chinese don't smoke marijuana. most of the restaurants and businesses closed during the pandemic. primetime for the holdouts to sell out

Well they are renting out the market units for profit to gwailos to subsidize the operation of the rent regulated units for existing asian population. The holdouts still want to own the properties. All depends on how much money toss at them and when their rent regulated units become too much of a burden for them keep.

The biggest land owners driving gentrification in Chinatown are Chinese. Try again.

Not every things is “white peoples” (whatever that means) vs all other races.

https://www.frieze.com/article/beyond-canal-street-gentrification-chinatown

Grow up. You were NEVER the good guys.

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Who is the “you”? People on Reddit? I’m literally not white.

chinatown needs the gwailos to surive..as if the asian folks currently living there pay enough to cover the expenses.