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.
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.
What will it take for you to fight for your homes ?
The politicians you sided with are about to steal your homes and give them away to Stephen Ross, a billionaire supporter of Trump’s White nationalist agenda.
Already, we have heard that NYCHA residents are being denied pandemic rental assistance and are having trouble getting their lease renewals. With the eviction moratorium ending today, you have fewer protections.
There’s no way that Stephen Ross is going to fix your apartments without a price. He no doubt plans to bulldoze your homes the way lands get cleared elsewhere.
We’ve also learned that many lawyers are afraid to sue Eric Adams and NYCHA to stop RAD/PACT conversions, because they know that judges won’t hold the City of New York and NYCHA accountable. Behind your back, lawyers admit they protect corruption.
The only way you are going to keep your homes is for you to fight for them.
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
It appears that Mayor Bill de Blasio should have put RAD/PACT conversions through the ULURP Process. But he didn’t !
Because protests have not worked, the last few members of Fight For NYCHA have sued Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City), the City of New York, NYCHA CEO Greg Russ, and NYCHA to stop the RAD/PACT privatisation of public housing !
It’s been almost three years since Fight For NYCHA was formed. In that time, the activism to save public housing in New York City has been beset by division, sectarian politics, ego, obfuscation, and subversion. We had AOC refuse to stand-up to Mayor de Blasio’s use of RAD/PACT and the Blueprint to sell-out NYCHA. We had other Electeds approve of the sell-out of public housing, and they never faced any consequence for having participated in the sell-out of public housing. We had socialists and other sectarian groups promote the use of Section 8 vouchers to the disadvantage of public housing residents, which was shameful and a form of betrayal, because that was certainly no way to show class solidarity. Rather than confront Mayor de Blasio, some activists formed YouTube talk shows to promote themselves. Other groups, like Movement School, sought to use NYCHA activism as a cover for membership drives that was entirely divorced from a commitment to an outcome to saving Section 9 public housing. We also endured selfish political candidates, seeking to use NYCHA issues for their political campaigns, only to turn their backs once their campaigns floundered. Other political candidates, like Marni Halasa, used NYCHA activism for press clips ; it didn’t matter that she was leading/misleading residents in the wrong direction. All that mattered were her media mentions.
The lawsuit we filed was largely based on the lawsuit filed by Beep Gale Bewer (D-Manhattan) to stop the infill development at Holmes Tower, which she won after Mayor de Blasio backtracked from the unlawful plans for the real estate development in the Upper East Side.
We had no choice but to file this lawsuit after activism to mobilise public housing residents failed in New York City due to many “community groups” and nonprofit orgs running interference for Mayor de Blasio and other corrupt Electeds. Remember how one nonprofit hosted Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) at a Black church in Brooklyn after it came to be known he supported the sell-out of public housing in Chelsea. Even after we exposed the truth of how some Socialist Democrats were collaborating with Mayor de Blasio in his scheme to end all Section 9 public housing, it came to a shock to many that it took direct action in the face of the DSA to put a halt to the Blueprint.
The lawsuit, filed as an Article 78 Petition, revealed that Mayor de Blasio’s implementation of RAD/PACT was illegal, since the way that Mayor de Blasio is rolling-out RAD/PACT conversions violate the City Charter and the New York State Public Housing Law. The City Charter and the Public Housing Law require large-scale projects, like RAD/PACT conversions, to be put through the ULURP Process. But Mayor de Blasio, NYCHA, CEO Russ, and the City of New York did not follow the laws. In respect of the RAD/PACT conversion of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea, the lawsuit made a showing that the de Blasio administration admitted that they decided to act outside of the ULURP Process.
As time passed, we knew that litigation, like this, would be our last resort, if social movement building failed in the face of sectarian opposition. We ask for support, as we make it clear that all other groups must set aside self-interest and self-promotion for the common good of all. And that means seeing to it that Section 9 public housing is saved from privatisation. This must be made a priority, at long last.
Pack the Court !
Date : Monday, Nov. 15
Time : 9:30 am
Place : Supreme Court, New York County, 60 Centre St., Room 130
Update
Updated 12 Nov 2021 13:55 The Defendants have filed motions to dismiss our Article 78 petition. We need to work together to put a stop to RAD/PACT once and for all !
