Call for the City to Stop the Two Bridges Luxury Towers and Pass the FULL Chinatown Working Group Rezoning Plan!

Mayor de Blasio has been pushing his pro-developer agenda that displaces tenants, workers and small businesses to enrich the 1%. In the Lower East Side, he illegally approved four out-of-scale megatowers that would make the neighborhood unaffordable and destroy the environment. Moreover, he refused to pass the Chinatown Working Group Rezoning Plan that would stop luxury high-rises and mandate any new development on public land to be 100% affordable to the community.

The recent NYS Supreme Court decision reverses the approval of the megatowers. The Judge has disagreed with Mayor de Blasio’s support for rich developers at the expense of the community. However, it dictates that the Two Bridges luxury towers must now go through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which allows Council Member Margaret Chin to approve the towers. Her intention to align with Mayor de Blasio’s displacement agenda has been clear from the beginning. The community is not deceived into believing that ULURP is any kind of victory.

We need to take the future of the community in our own hands. Therefore, we are petitioning Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson to:

1. Stop the four luxury towers that would decimate the neighborhood 

2. Pass the FULL Chinatown Working Group Rezoning Plan that would protect the whole community.

We urge Council Speaker Johnson to stand with the community and not be like Mayor de Blasio.  

Sign the petition and join our call! https://www.thepetitionsite.com/540/710/761/stop-the-illegal-megatowers-in-the-lower-east-side-and-pass-the-cwg/

Coalition to Protect Chinatown and LES

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