| In Chinatown NYC
Mayor Adams Talks Arch As Inner
City Press Asks of New Jail
Protests
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
NYC,
Feb 9 – Amid the beauties and
betrayals of Manhattan
Chinatown, on February 9 there
was a scheduling announcement:
"9 a.m. – New York City
Mayor Eric Adams makes a
public space-related
announcement, related to a key
commitment made in his 2024
State of the City address,
Kimlau Square, Chatham Square
and East Broadway."
Inner City Press went to cover
the event, which consisted of
speeches not only by elected
officials including
Congressman Dan Goldman and
Manhattan Borough President
Mark Levine (who joked he
would made his introduction as
an avenger into a memo) but
also by a few local activists
and planner.
Mayor
Adams arrived late in the
program, spoke and then took
questions. Inner City Press
asked him about community
opposition to the Chinatown
high-rise jail project on
Baxter Street, and to a
shelter set to be in at 91
East Broadway. How did
listening to the community
apply to those?
The jail, Mayor
Adams blamed on the City
Council. (This heartened back
to finger pointing all the way
back in the Board of Estimate,
about the jail site, in 1984).
He did not answer on the
shelter, much less about
Comptroller Brad Lander's Fair
Share report, cited in the
failed lawsuit against the
project.
Afterward,
Inner City Press interviewed
NYS Secretary of State Robert
J. Rodriguez, who said that
this round of listening began
in earnest in 2021, but that
plans to refurbish Park Row,
which runs by the SDNY
courthouse and now-empty MCC
jail, stretch back much
longer.
Inner City Press
will continue to report on
this
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