Archive for February, 2019

Mock Elections Coming Back To Play In Crown Heights

February 21, 2019

Regarding: Crown Heights Jewish Community Council to Hold Elections

The Crown Heights Community Council Inc. is so irreverent to our day to day lives that it took me a week to make time (wasted time) to address this issue.

Besides, after reading and hearing what the people have to say about this, there isn’t much to add.

I will however say a few things.

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Ask The Sperlin Family and Crown Heights Jewish Community Council Inc.

February 11, 2019

By J. David Goodman

 

“Where the hell is HUD and money?”

Stanley Brezenoff, a career public servant in New York City since the 1970s, was deeply frustrated.

On Jan. 31, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Ben Carson, the secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, struck a deal that subjected the New York City Housing Authority to federal oversight without any commitment of new federal funding.

“I think that it is not a good agreement for Nycha and for the city,” Mr. Brezenoff, the outgoing Nycha chairman, said in an interview.

Mr. Brezenoff, an ally of Mr. de Blasio who was hailed in April by the mayor as “one of the great public servants in the last generation,” said he believed the deal was unfair.

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