by Julia M 
“The city can’t just rest on its laurels and say it made an offer,” said State Assemblyman Joe Lentol on the steps of City Hall, where the North Brooklyn community alongside elected officials turned up the heat on an already sweltering summer day for Bushwick Inlet Park. It’s because the $100 million offerthat the city made to acquire the last remaining parcel of…
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Bushwick Inlet Park was part of the 2005 environmental impact statement. Mayor de Blasio must have the courage to do the right thing. The city is watching Greenpoint & Williamsburg. You can’t rezone other neighborhoods and do what you have done here. Affordable housing is not the only issue in NYC. People need to live in the neighborhoods that the mayor up zones. We can’t all live on top of one another without space and air. It is not humane. We demand eminent domain. None of the neighborhoods that are slated for up zoning want to end up like Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Other neighborhoods use us as an example of what they don’t want. NYC must live up to its commitment.