Category Archives: Real Estate
Real Estate Developer praises Quinn
Yet another real estate mogul has publicly praised Christine Quinn. Over the years, real estate interests have invested millions in Quinn’s campaign b/c the ROI is extraordinary. After all, Quinn has demonstrated time and again that she will stop at nothing to pay them back, including destroying entire neighborhoods, changing zoning laws and ignoring her own constituents.
Quinn’s Affordable Housing Plan Denounced as Welfare for Real Estate
Quinn’s plan “prominently features a tax subsidy twice proposed and rejected by the Bloomberg administration as unacceptably generous to the real estate industry, according to the New York Times.”
Campaign Contributors influence Quinn’s position on sick leave bill
“Business owners and others who signed a letter urging Quinn to stop the bill have given or raised more than $250,000 for her campaign.”
When did Quinn start lying?
Quinn “made a strong and unequivocal promise to her then future constituents: She had not and would not take money from landlords or developers. “No I haven’t and no I won’t,” she said with emphasis…it did not take long before Quinn started to break her promise. A re-examination of her campaign contributions from 1999 shows she was lying through her teeth even during her first campaign. And today, as then, she’s in complete denial.”
Quinn for Chelsea Market Project Despite Public Outcry
“Shortly after the vote, Ms. Quinn released a 1,000-word statement saying that deal ‘strikes the appropriate balance between the need for development and economic growth while preserving the distinct character of an iconic city building.’ But after the vote, Michael McKee, a longtime advocate for tenants’ rights, his voice rising, criticized council members as ‘sheep’ because ‘they live in fear of the speaker.'”
Quinn’s Deal with Dermot Company
“Speaker Quinn sponsored $2 million for the Dermot Company’s plans to build open space as part of 800 mostly market-rate apartments in the Hudson Yards development. Dermot execs have donated $24,750 to Quinn in the last two years.”
Chelsea Market
“She should be here to hear testimony about a project that’s going to destroy her community,” said Michael McKee, who worked with the speaker in 1989 when she was an organizer with the Housing Justice Campaign. “She was a great community organizer. She was one of the best I’ve ever met,” he added, “but I don’t know where that Chris Quinn is.”
Related contribution
“Quinn took in more than $17,000 in campaign donations connected to Hudson Yards developer Related Cos. since the start of 2012 . . . During the same six-month period, Quinn privately negotiated a deal that gave the firm a break from the recently passed law that raises to $10 an hour the pay for lower-income employees who work for companies that receive major subsidies from City Hall.”
two trees
“Ms. Quinn, who said she has not made up her mind about it (a real estate development), noted that she had championed reforms that eliminated the kinds of contributions she got from Two Trees (Development Company). Why, then, did she take nine donations last year from owners, employees and family members of the company for $4,950 each, the maximum then permitted?”
Not enough in it for quinn to support a development
In an article about a controversial development on the West Side of Manhattan, Crain’s includes a quote from an “insider” who inadvertently sheds light on how Quinn makes decisions based on how they will help her instead of the public: “Chris has taken the temperature of the community on this,” said one insider. “There’s not enough in it for her to simply go against them.”
