An Order to Show Cause with TRO in a Civil Action was filed today.
Petitioners sought emergency relief from the actual and imminent harm stemming from the forced relocations of public housing residents at two public housing developments, Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea.
Before we showed up to file the Order to Show Cause, attorneys for Essence-Related filed a letter with our Judge, threatening to submit a motion of their own to oppose our TRO.
Attorneys for Essence-Related, the front-puppet and the puppet master, respectively, submitted a letter to the Judge in our case, notifying the Court that the RAD/PACT Landlord planned to file a motion to intervene in our updated Article 78 Petition and to oppose our TRO.
For its part, NYCHA filed a letter with the Court in opposition to our Order to Show Cause.
We sought emergency relief from the Courts after NYCHA and Essence-Related began forced relocations of senior citizens to further its plan to empty out and demolish two public housing apartment buildings before the ULURP and RFP questions could be decided in our case.
Democrats will do the bidding of MAGA billionaires before they will answer to NYCHA public housing residents.
To celebrate the REBNY’s successful rezoning of the Midtown South section of Manhattan, Councilmember Erik Bottcher (D-District 3) took a walk alongst 34th Street with Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (DSA-A.D. 36). Their walk was timed to gamely show for the cameras who would make the trip fastest : The pair of Democrats or the crosstown M34 bus.
The competition between the political pedestrians and the surface mass transit was meant to promote the idea of transforming 34th Street into a busway that would eliminate vehicular traffic in favour of improving the performance of the crosstown bus route. It was a noble gesture of a manufactured, public benefit from the controversial Midtown South rezoning, even though it would likely lead to the death of small businesses in a major retail corridor, much like how 14th Street was transformed into a ghost town after its own busway conversion.
The amount of community-crushing development about to befall Chelsea, Midtown South, and Times Square is unimaginable. Non-stop gentrification was always the goal of REBNY-adjacent Democrats.
These big budget projects are why Democrats have lost their base, because there’s always money for upward transfers of wealth, like from a cash-strapped NYCHA to certain REBNY members in the real estate development industry, but there’s no there there to address the extremes of exploitation in late-stage Capitalism. There’s no help for the Democratic Party’s base, especially not amidst a housing crisis.
And for Councilmember Bottcher and Assemblymember Mamdani to gaslight voters into believing that a busway on 34th Street was the perfect solution to a housing crisis, the inflation in consumer prices, and the MAGA assault on the republic was exemplary of how the Democratic Party has lost touch with reality. The Democrats are united in ending public housing, and their inferior consolation prize is a busway. Only those disassociated from reality would believe this gaslighting.
Mamdani made the revelation to a select group of Chelsea residents, who are closest to the Democratic Party machine. Was the selection of that group made on purpose ?
The Democratic mayoral candidate, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (DSA-A.D. 36), reportedly had a discussion about the looming RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of NYCHA public housing in Chelsea. Participants in the secret conversation included at least one NYCHA resident leader, a nonprofit executive, and Democratic Party insiders, according to information obtained by Fight For NYCHA.
The Assemblymember Mamdani, the sole heir to a Bollywood fortune and the darling of the Socialist Democrats, revealed during the secretive talks that he privately opposed the demolition of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea. However, he supported aspects of the controversial RAD/PACT privatisation schemes, such as the infill of public housing, even though that represented a form of upward transfers of wealth in the form of strategic, public assets to private sector real estate developers. Infill describes when community gardens, lawns, children’s parks, and open spaces are cleared for construction of high-rise luxury apartment buildings.
Though Assemblymember Mamdani nominally opposes the RAD/PACT demolition of NYCHA, the fact that he’s remaining silent about his opposition means that he’s strategically decided to use silence to effect his coördination with President Donald Trump (R) to end public housing all together.
The hush-hush conversation was an attempt by Mamdani to relate to the plight of Chelsea residents facing the complete demolition of public housing. The attempt at humanisation was meant to thwart accountability, and it worked !
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani with District Leader Layla Law-Gisiko at a meeting of Manhattan Dems at which Mamdani won the endorsement of the Democratic Party’s New York county committee. Fair Use
Information about the tight-lipped talks emerged today at a protest against the doyenne of Democratic Party LGBTQ progressive activists, Allen Roskoff, who gave an interview to Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, expressing support for an upward transfer of wealth from a cash-strapped NYCHA to MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross.
At our protest, an agent provocateur showed up to incite division, showing us the absolute state of panic amongst Democratic Party insiders, who are invested in the Project 2025 goal of ending public housing.
In response to the Fight For NYCHA lawsuit to challenge the legality of the RAD/PACT, some of the same Democratic Party insiders, who participated in the secretive Mamdani talks, launched an astroturf fundraiser for a non-existent lawsuit against NYCHA.
In a sign of how Assemblymember Mamdani was able to pacify the Democratic Party insiders with whom he met, the astroturf group has yet to file one lawsuit against NYCHA or the City of New York over the RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of public housing in Chelsea. The Democratic Party machine activists have been silenced—not by President Trump, but by Assemblymember Mamdani and other notable Democrats !
That the Democrats support the ethnic cleansing of Chelsea should come as no surprise. It follows on the heels of Assemblymember Mamdani demonstrating that a Democrat could win a City-wide primary election race without the NYCHA vote. Just like the Republicans, the Democrats have confidently made the political calculation that NYCHA voters are expendable.
Over a dozen seniors lined up last week outside to speak with a reporter. One senior citizen had to go rest upstairs after becoming overcome by stress.
Last week, the New York City Housing Authority began delivering notices to residents of the senior building at the Chelsea Houses public housing development known as the the Chelsea Addition. The notices informed tenants that they had 90 days to agree to forced relocations do to the looming demolition of the Chelsea Addition. Residents of a public housing building on 19th Street in nearby Fulton Houses received similar notices on or about the same day.
A narrated video of part of the gathering was shared on Facebook Live and was reshared on the X social media microblogging site.
Seniors waited in a line to speak with a reporter about the forced relocation by NYCHA over the looming RAD/PACT demolition of public housing.
The reporter moved a report, published by Gothamist, in which it was confirmed that, “Residents of a senior housing complex in Chelsea are receiving vacate orders as the New York City Housing Authority moves forward with its plan to replace and modernize a sprawling public apartment complex with both new public housing and market-rate units.”
The Democrats in the District are supporting the upward transfer of wealth from a cash-strapped NYCHA to a MAGA billionaire.
Everyone from U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y. 12, State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-N.Y. 47), Assemblymember Tony Simone (D-A.D. 75), Councilmember Erik Bottcher (D-Manhattan 3), and LGBTQ progressive activist Allen Roskoff are complicit in the RAD/PACT demolition of public housing.
We call the American style of Government a Duopoly, because both corporate political parties agree on major issues. For example, Democrats support the wholesale end of Section 9 public housing by transferring all public housing residents to Section 8 rental assistance vouchers at the same time when President Donald J. Trump, Sr. (R) has advocated for ending Section 8 rental assistance vouchers as part of his administration’s implementation of Project 2025, the MAGA blueprint for shredding the social compact.
Although New York Democrats claim to oppose Trump’s MAGA White Nationalist agenda, in actuality, Manhattan Democrats actually support Project 2025 given the RAD/PACT demolition facing NYCHA in Chelsea. Democrats, protected by LGBTQ progressive acctivist Allen Roskoff, for example, take it a step further by supporting the upward transfer of wealth to MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross, the owner of The Related Companies, which stands to profit from the demolition and displacement of public housing residents in Chelsea.
Thus far, the only NYCHA preservation group, which has filed a lawsuit to review the RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea, has been Fight For NYCHA.
Fight For NYCHA have helped organise several news reports about the looming evictions. Our Article 78 Petition is now fully-briefed and is pending before Manhattan State Supreme Court. We’ve also been asking other groups to help residents in the Chelsea Addition and the 19th Street building to begin proceedings in Housing Court. Please donate what you can to our Go Fund Me to cover our expenses.
A vote of no confidence from NYCHA residents in Zohran Mamdani’s Assembly district
The drumbeats eminating from the largest public housing development in the Nation have turned ominous for Assemblymember Zohran K. Mamdani (DSA-Astoria), the Democratic Party nominee in the November génerale mayoral race in New York City.
Assemblymember Mamdani reportedly lost the vote at Queensbridge Houses, the large public housing development in his Assembly district, according to an Editorial published by the Daily News.
Cuomo beat Mamdani in Ravenswood Houses and Astoria Houses, also in Mamdani’s district, suggesting a voter backlash by NYCHA residents to the DSA/WFP/PSL duplicity.
In the first-round voting in the primary election, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) beat Assemblymember Mamdani amongst Queensbridge Houses voters 59 per cent. to 29 per cent., revealing a 30 per cent. margin in political support. The Editorial revealed that Assemblymember Mamdani’s margin of defeat was similar at Ravenswood Houses and Astoria Houses.
Assemblymember Mamdani’s defeat amongst New York City Housing Authority tenants after over two terms as a State Legislator flew in the face of the Socialist’s brand of politics. Assemblymember Mamdani has walked a fine line between “seizing the means of production” and opulent spending on a globe-trotting lifestyle. He lives like a Ugandan warlord. Voters facing inflation at the grocery stores and disenchantment with the Duopoly may have taken notice at the duplicity.
NYCHA public housing residents are used to being forgotten, getting left behind, and ignored. Are they beginning to fight back ?
An Upstate-Downstate coälition, a front-group of DSA/WFP/PSL functionaires and led by the DSA’s maven of social housing, Cea Weaver, was the reported lobbying coördinator behind the DSA/WFP/PSL’s Plantation Trust (f/k/a the “Blueprint For Change”), which aims to end F.D.R.’s New Deal promise of housing as a human right by replacing NYCHA. Like RAD/PACT, the Plantation Trust seeks to collaborate with the stated Project 2025 goal of President Donald Trump (R) to end Section 9 public housing.
After years of struggle, are public housing residents waking up to how the DSA/WFP/PSL, and their chorus of front-puppets, have sold them out ?
Are Blacks abandoning the Democratic Party in New York because their land use policies favour gentrification and displacement ?
In a rare and insightful probe into the state of Black power in New York, the New York Times revealed that Blacks are engaged in a migration out of New York due to the housing crisis and quality of life issues. The article postulated that, as a result, the Democratic Party faces a reckoning with the loss of, and the loss of confidence by, a key voting bloc, noting, in relevant part, that, “community leaders and residents alike say they have noticed real political and demographic shifts that stand to threaten the endurance of New York’s once-ironclad Democratic coalition . . . .” Indeed, the Rev. Dr. Adolphus Lacey, the senior pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, described the exodus as an erosion. The report highlighted that, even as Blacks are moving, it could be because they are being moved out : “the same trends that disproportionately harm Black Americans are also driving some of them out of New York.”
Setting aside quality of life issues, let’s focus on the housing crisis.
The Democrats’ answer to the housing crisis has been to approve non-stop luxury condominiums ; develop and implement an affordable housing lottery system, which has been called a scam ; and to seemingly collaborate with Republicans in the Project 2025 goal of ending public housing. Because the Democratic Party wants to make New York a playground for the rich, of course races, which have faced centuries of discrimination, are going to get squeezed out.
More luxury apartments have been built in New York City Council District 3 under Councilmembers Corey Johnson (D) and his successor, Erik Bottcher (D), than in any other City Council district. This was largely due to Hudson Yards, which was developed by MAGA billionaire and Trump White nationalism supporter-donor Stephen Ross and gentrification related to the construction of the High Line. The gentrification has ushered in a mega-new, wealthy White neighborhood : the Hudson Yards plantation.
Since the Democratic Party enjoys super-majority control over New York Governments, it raises serious questions, when the private sector cannot construct low-cost housing for New Yorkers earning low-incomes, like, why are Democrats choosing to end Section 9 public housing through schemes known as Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT), and the Preservation Trust ? Approximately 90 per cent. of public housing residents living in New York are minorities. By shifting such a large bloc of vulnerable people, including senior citizens living on fixed-incomes, to the private sector, these New Yorkers will lose Civil Rights Act protections that treat housing as a human right. In place of those civil rights protections, these minorities will face private sector landlords known for violating anti-discrimination laws.
As a result, the leading candidate in the Democratic Party primary for New York City mayor cobbled his coälition . . . without Blacks !
When State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (DSA-Astoria) finished ahead in the first-round of ranked choice voting in the Democratic Party’s mayoral primary, he did so without Blacks coälescing behind his mayoral campaign. His presumptive win came without the support of the solidly-Black neighborhoods in New York, according to a report published by the New York Times. The lack of Black support flies in the face of the mayoral primary wins of Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams, the Times found, adding that, nationally, the Black voting bloc carried the recent presidential nominations of Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
What this shows is that the White coälition that is powering Assemblymember Mamdani’s mayoral campaign has been willing to ditch Black power after making the political calculation that Black support was expendable in a City-wide mayor’s race.
Nowhere else can that be seen than in Assemblymember Mamdani’s support for the RAD/PACT and Preservation Trust sell-out of NYCHA public housing in New York. Returning to the Times‘ trend story of Democrats’ failed policies forcing Blacks to move-out of New York, two key issues facing Blacks are the housing crisis and the crisis of public housing. To maintain support amongst Whites and the Big Business community that are the sources of large, campaign donations, the support by Democrats, including Assemblymember Mamdani, to the sell-out of NYCHA could be the leading driver of Blacks being moved-out of New York.
The gentrification that beset Harlem and shattered that historic neighborhood’s focal point of Black power in New York is one example of how Democrats, who enjoy super-majority control over New York City Government and public policy, are complicit in a racist drive to break Black power in New York. They’ve learned to take their racist fight to break DEI to the ballot-box, and win, just like President Donald Trump (R).
The Democrats’ new model of White power politics, which is indifferent to Black issues and Black support, can also be witnessed in the transactional politics of Democratic Party powerbroker Allen Roskoff and in the obfuscation of District Leader Layla Law-Gisiko, who supports the privatisation and demolition of public housing in Chelsea and who uses an almost deliberate misreading of the law to excuse the unlawful disposition of City real property outside of the ULURP Process, respectively. The pattern of racial indifference is more than accidental, and its fingerprints can be seen in more than just the mayor’s race. Ask Councilmember Erik Bottcher (D-Chelsea).
We take our protests to where they need to be, and, on Juneteenth, we were forced to show up outside of Allen Roskoff’s luxury condo.
Public housing residents and Fight For NYCHA activists protested outside of the lobby to the luxury condominium tower at 450 West 17th Street in Chelsea, where Democratic Party operative Allen Roskoff lives. The building was built by The Related Companies, the real estate development company that built Hudson Yards and is now seeking to take control over and demolish all of the public housing in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
Democrats want to make New York City more White. To do this, they are seeking to displace public housing residents through demolition.
Allen Roskoff was quoted in the New York Post, supporting the RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of NYCHA public housing to benefit MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross. Allen’s support is one of the main reasons why politicians, like Erik Bottcher, Tony Simone, and Brad Hoylman, also support RAD/PACT.
Democrats have apparently become plantation workers for Stephen Ross, and they’re trying to help him enlarge his plantation from Hudson Yards down to West 16th Street. We showed up outside of Allen Roskoff’s luxury condo to call him out !
After our protest, Allen Roskoff called, in a state of worry.
Following our protest, Allen Roskoff reached out by telephone to two members of Fight For NYCHA. Shockingly, he admitted that he heard us use the bullhorn from his apartment in one of the upper floors. Most importantly, he said he would be willing to write a letter to bring this controversy to an end.
Social media influencer Christopher Leon Johnson covered our protest, and he shared a complete video of our protest on X.
Stephen Ross wants to enlarge his Hudson Yards plantation from West 36th Street down to West 16th Street. We say no !
NYCHA public housing tenants and Fight For NYCHA activists protested outside of 30 Hudson Yards, the headquarters for The Related Companies, the real estate development company that built Hudson Yards. Related is the big money behind the RAD/PACT Landlord that is seeking to profit from the privatisation and demolition of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea. The protesters alleged that the RAD/PACT scheme was tantamount to a naked land-grab.
Democrats supporting the upward transfer of wealth from a cash-strapped NYCHA to a MAGA billionaire make them the foremen on Stephen Ross’s plantation
During our protest, we alleged that the employees of Hudson Yards were Stephen Ross’ plantation workers. That didn’t sit right with some of the security guards monitoring our protest.
Democrats are duplicitously conspiring with MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross to sell-out NYCHA. We noted that senior citizens were amongst those first at-risk of eviction in order for Related to begin the demolition of public housing. The mainly White residents, employees, and patrons of Hudson Yards were, of course, indifferent to the looming evictions of public housing residents, 90 per cent. of whom are minorities. The other 10 per cent. are Whites living on low- or fixed-incomes. Racism means that Whites don’t care about disparate impact discrimination faced by minorities, because the Whites enjoy White privilege.
The RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of public housing in Chelsea is premised on every single resident being displaced. This displacement is taking place amongst a housing crisis and based on the belief that Stephen Ross will take the public housing residents back, once he has built new apartment buildings. You’d have to still believe in the tooth fairy to trust that the richest plantation owner in Manhattan is going to let minorities move into the new mansions he’s putting up on his property. To wit, there is no Federal right-of-return for tenants, whose public housing apartments are demolished.
During our protest, many workers exiting and entering 30 Hudson Yards appeared inconvenienced by our presence, but they appeared to have heard our message.
RAD/PACT is racist. Is that why Allen Roskoff supports it ?
Allen Roskoff markets himself as the doyenne of LGBT progressive activism in New York City. He is the president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club in Manhattan. As a result, he bundles donations to establishment candidates, like Councilmember Erik Bottcher (D-District 3) and hosts fundraisers attended by the corporate wing of the Democratic Party, like Gov. Kathleen Hochul.
However, in a recent report published by the New York Post, Roskoff said that he supported the controversial RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of NYCHA public housing in Chelsea. The report noted that rich White ladies living in million-dollar condos were ostensibly claiming to oppose the demolition due to inconveniences to the wealth residents of uppity Chelsea. But that’s not the whole story, obviously.
Like the late Ed Koch before him, Allen Roskoff lives in a luxury condo built by one of REBNY’s most powerful plantation owners.
Allen Roskoff has made is mark in New York political circles by claiming that he never forgave former Mayor Ed Koch (D-New York City) over the reported failure to respond to the outbreak of the AIDS crisis. Former Mayor Koch, now dead, reportedly lived his life as a closted gay man until his death.
During his final years, former Mayor Koch lived in a luxury condominium apartment at 2 Fifth Avenue, a luxury building overlooking Washington Square Park. The apartment was rented from the Rudin family, now lead by William Rudin, one of the oligarchs of New York. When it came time for the Rudin family to reportedly begin foreclosure proceedings against St. Vincent’s Hospital and the ensuing lobbying effort to close and demolish the strategic, public asset, the former mayor supported the Rudin family’s interests.
Fast-forward through all of the drama, we come to learn that Allen Roskoff has lived, since at least 2009, in a luxury condominium built by The Related Companies, which is owned by Stephen Ross, a MAGA billionaire and the plantation owner of Hudson Yards. Stephen Ross is also the owner of a range of corporations, including the Miami Dolphins football franchise, making him another of New York’s oligarchs.
For all of Allen Roskoff’s propaganda as a progressive activist, we can see clearly that he’s following in the footsteps of former Mayor Koch by his endorsement of the RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea to benefit Stephen Ross. It harks back to how Ed Koch did the same for William Rudin vis-à-vis the demolition and luxury condo conversion of St. Vincent’s.
The oligarchs of New York have learned how easy it is to buy and boss the leaders, closeted or not, of New York’s LGBT community. The losers have turned out to be the people, who depended on St. Vincent’s as a charity hospital and on NYCHA for Government-owned, low-cost housing. The racial minorities and the disenfranchised suffered, even as Ed Koch and Allen Roskoff rose to eminent positions of proverbial foremen on the plantations of some of New York’s richest, White families.
The Article 78 was a refiling of a prior petition, which was dismissed for not being ripe.
On 9 April 2025, six New York City Housing Authority tenants and one Chelsea resident filed an updated Article 78 Petition, seeking a judicial review of Agency and City decisions to put all of the public housing stock in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan into privatisation, which would ultimately lead to their complete demolition.
The legal action, Weaver, et al., v. NYCHA, et al., is a refiling of a prior Article 78, which was dismissed without prejudice. The judge in the prior case issued a legal opinion that the issue was not yet ripe for review, though the prior petitioners disagreed. For lack of legal representation, we were unable to appeal the decision.
The updated refiling was filed pro se, and it included a City Charter § 1109 request for a preliminary judicial inquiry to examine why Agency and City officials appeared to give the RAD/PACT Landlord, a joint-venture including The Related Companies, an apparent exemption to the ULURP Process, which is a formal land use review procedure required when real estate development projects reach a certain scale or impact, when projects involve the disposition of City real property, or when projects involve public housing.
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