For Shame

A year before her death, the urban activist Jane Jacobs, then 88, wrote a remarkably prescient letter urging Mayor Bloomberg to scuttle his plans for the Williamsburg waterfront. “Even the presumed beneficiaries of this misuse of governmental powers, the developers and financiers of luxury towers, may not benefit,” she wrote. “Misused environments are not good long-term economic bets.” Four years later, Jacobs’s prophecy has been realized...

--This excerpt from New York's recent piece on the disastrous development muck-ups in North Williamsburg is the last bit of proof needed in a case against Mike Bloomberg. The man who pays no heed to Jane Jacobs is not the man I want mayoring New York City!