I have to say that I grew up in the immediate area amd attended Brooklyn Technical High School.
The area being developed for this project has for many, many years been both an eyesore and a dangerous place for people in the community, despite the fact that there is a police station located right there. I understand that the project is not "ideal" for those who want to continue to live there. However, if you keep doing what you've been doing and never do anything different you will continue to get what you've always gotten. Because I am not rich and I need "affordable" housing, of course I think "affordable condo ownership should be a much larger component of the housing for this project . However, my ideas are self serving. Providing the land to the developer at a fair price and taking the money from the sale of the land to the developer to purchase some of the housing units from the developer and then provide them to the existing residents as low - middle income "affordable" condos may be a better alternative to achieve the housing balance that is needed should be an option. Alot of the land is land for public use and therefore the money from the sale of the land should be funneled back into the same area. Not added to the MTA budget to be used for salaries and bonuses or to improve service on the East side of Manhattan. Why is a new subway line being put in there and services being cut along other lines. But making Ratner pay the right price for the land is the starting point. Not letting them sell him the land for less than someone else has to pay