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Protest against Erik Bottcher to save NYCHA from RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition

Protest outside Erik Bottcher's apartment building in Chelsea to save NYCHA from privatisation and demolition.

Protesters Oppose RAD/PACT Privatisation and Demolition Public Housing Plan in Chelsea

A group of NYCHA public housing tenants and preservation activists gathered for a protest march on Thursday, Oct. 2. The protest began in the area in front of 224 W. 30th St., where Councilmember Erik Bottcher (D-Chelsea) maintains a district office.

Councilmember Bottcher has discretion over the approval or rejection of the RAD/PACT privatisation and demolition of Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea public housing developments in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. He supports the upward transfer of wealth from a cash-strapped Local Public Housing Authority to MAGA billionaire Stephen Ross, who owns Hudson Yards. There plan is disastrous to public housing residents on many levels, including that this is a naked land grab by a donor and supporter of President Donald Trump’s White Nationalist agenda. The march concluded at Councilmember Bottcher’s apartment building, located at 415 W. 24th St.

The protest march was broadcast from both locations via the Citizen app, where it accumulated over 17,000 views amongst residents primarily concerned with quality of life issues in Chelsea.

Councilmember Bottcher faces a Nov. 4 general election against community activist Dominick Romeo, an independent.

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Anonymous Message to NYCHA Residents

Greetings, NYCHA Residents. We are Anonymous.

This is a special message to public housing tenants in New York City.

For almost three years, we tried to organize public housing tenants to stop the RAD and PACT conversions of NYCHA public housing. We were undermined by politicians and political candidates, nonprofit groups, lawyers, and even residents themselves, who put self interest ahead of the well being of our communities.

The time for collective organizing was barely taking off before it came to an end.

As a result, Mayor Bill de Blasio has given away Fulton Houses, Elliott Houses, Chelsea Houses, and the Chelsea Annex to the Hudson Yards developer and Trump billionaire donor, Stephen Ross.

Hudson Yards apparently wants to expand and is planning to annex public housing in order to build more luxury housing in Chelsea. As you know, the High Line Park, Chelsea Market, and Hudson River Park are amenities that the élites want for themselves. They don’t want public housing residents in their neighborhood.

We predict the Hudson Yards take-over will lead to evictions, as have happened following other RAD and PACT conversions. If you are beginning to get worried, then maybe it’s time you really started working collectively with those, who have been rejected, slighted, and defamed by politicians and the political candidates. After all, the leaders you have been listening to have led you to this point. The people, who you were not listening to, are still fighting.

The time to correct your course is very limited. It’s up to you to work together to fight for a future that fully-funds NYCHA, because Eric Adams promises to be more of the same.

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Protest against Eric Adams at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Monday

Join us as we protest NYC Democratic Party mayoral nominee Eric Adams on Thursday !

Is Eric Adams going to keep on selling-out NYCHA like Mayor Bill de Blasio ? It sure looks like it !

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (D-Brooklyn) has really started vacuum sucking donations from the rich and powerful for his general election campaign for New York City mayor. He’s done the Hamptons, at the same time he is ignoring the ongoing and continuing threat of RAD/PACT conversions by Mayor Bill de Blasio (WFP-New York City) of NYCHA public housing and the possible return of the Blueprint. This is unacceptable and an early indication that Eric Adams risks abdicating land use policy to wealthy donors, not unlike Mayor de Blasio.

We can’t let that happen !

Protest against NYC Democratic Party mayoral nominee Eric Adams

Date : Mon., 13 Sept.
Time : 12 noon
Place : Brooklyn Boro Hall (Joralemon St. side)
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