They do all look alike and dang, is that baby bottle emoji their kryptonite.
Lol – nah you all fall in the same category- and refuse to see or admit it- you all look nothing like me or my neighbors in section 8 housing- do you know what that is? You’re all egotistical “saviors” with theoretic education and no experience.- and you do all look the same.
“haaallllpp me think of moar nonwhite men. because I can’t think of anyone else. (which is loudly saying the loud part out loud, again really loudly🥺😭)”why do they *all* look like this?
all of them, always: why?“no, you’re wrong because ackshually…”“omg we don’t ‘all look alike,” just no stawp. jeebus: some of us are ~*old*~ and some of us ~*wear glasses*~; we’re a very diverse group”“sometimes we wear hats!!!!!😤🍼😫”
These tweets of mine are from almost a full year ago: notice how the first three are emoji-free, that’s how old they are. And why yes indeedie: ~*all*~ yimbys do ~*look*~ ~*alike*~“we’re such a diverse group of pasty white guys that one of us is even a llama, okay?!?? gawwwdd!!!”“one of us has a sister!!!!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”“listen, we are ~*not*~ all white guys, we’re not, okay?!?!?!?! like, literally not, seriously: it just ~*looks*~ like we, so stawp saying we are because we are so not 😤🍼😫”“suhppppppleye ahnd duhmahnnnddd!!!!! gawwdd!!!!😤🍼😫”
We already know all these faces, amirite? The Great White Male quilt “seriously? do you even know how to read??!!??!?!?!😤🍼😫”“sometimes we laugh, sometimes we sigh with joy at life’s little pleasures, like biking!!!!! ayyyyynd sometimes we take ironic selfies and really like how they turn out!!!!”“we are incredibly diverse!!!!😤 like, a bunch of us have beards!!!!!!🍼 some of those beards are close shaven, ok, and some of the beards are quite long: because representation matterz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😫”“in fact, some of us are very expressive with our incredible diverse ~*hair*~, ha! it’s like a thing, a follicle spicy take, if you will🥺😭”
Some are old, some are young, some wear hats, some have facial hair: and yet they are all the same “it’s like we’re all from the same family, like we’re siblings or like first cousins or i dunno something like that, i dunno, i’m just spitballing here”
Quick aside: the guy in the large photo has described his inclusion in this ensemble as an “attack” by me. He thinks it’s an “attack” for me to have made note of how similar all these redheaded bearded bespectacled young white guys look. Wonder what he thinks of Ukraine, you know, like in comparison to his own horrifying experience of having surviving being “attacked.”
There is a reason why I use the baby bottle emoji, Chris Aho: thanks for demonstrating that😃😀😄
“but we are like very individual, you know, we’re unique, sure we’re *all* white and yeah ok we’re like *all* male, sure ok, but we’re like a rainbow, work with me, follow my thought: we’re a gradation of greatness, an ever-changing cascade of caucasianness, a field of dreams”“if we were a pasta, we’d be fettuccine alfredo😤🍼😫”“or like maybe a nice sauceless white pizza: and ‘white’ means ‘cheese only,’ ok, you presumptive racist!!!!!😤🍼😫”
“We are family, I got all my fettuccine with me, hey hey, we are family, get up everybody and sing”“k but can i please speak to the manager, though? i mean, i don’t have a ~*real*~ problem per se, i’d just like to, you know, speak to someone in charge🥺😭”
The center guy here called me “abusive“ in the comments for my post about Mark Mollineaux.
“You blocked me!!!!!!😤 On Twitter!!!!!!!!!🍼 That’s, like, ~*literally*~ abuse!!!!!😫”“u mad bro? calm down chill it’s not that serious, lmao😤🍼😫”“lmao what? 😤🍼😫”“variation of eyeglasses frame club: from soft gentle rectangles and crisp classic circulars to thoughtful square hybrids, we span the gamut, so like again, do not tell us that we are not ~*diverse*~: we are as unique as our eyewear, ok?!?!?!?!? gaawwwddd😤🍼😫”
Stunning and brave mayonnaise “😫”“ackshually, new construction is extremely green!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”“historical parking lot!!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”“ban cars but not amazon deliveries!!!!!!! or uber!!!!!!! or like lyft, too!!!!!!! but ban cars!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”
(Legit cannot tell them apart)“evan mast wrote this white paper in 2012: it’s the only research i have, ok, but it’s really really good!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”“community gardens belong on top of private residential buildings, not on the earthly ground and in soil, you stupid boomer: no one cares about shadows but you, lmfao😤🍼😫!!!!!!!”(oh snap look who it is🙊)
“if you ~*really*~ ~*cared*~ about new york city, you’d turn it into tokyo, you redundant battle axe!!!!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”bowl after bowl of vanilla ice cream🥺😭
All of them, alwaysThey alllookalike🍼Allofthemalways😫White lines blowing through my mind
Oh it is. And to be clear I think the issue broadly is a legit one, but to your point, yeah she’s far from a good faith critic. pic.twitter.com/W8NddkUoOc
As a yimby who looks like those guys, I think there is something to it. Yimbys are common in Bay Area, and they probably have income to think they can buy a house but can’t. That will lead to lots of early 30s white guys who work in tech.
Hence the photos I posted. They have all decided to “educate” me on where I am born and raised. And they all look like that- I just took the screenshots
You referring to me as a baby w/ emoji. That’s an insult.
Your desire to paint them as some sort of lobbying firm is silly; they’re motivated by the same things I am: we need more housing, and we needed it 50 years ago. So they’re organized to try & make that happen,l.
My bad, Jeff, because nothing says “triumph” quite like an emoji blowing smoke out of its nostrils in full spaz meltdown: how manly, powerful and magnificent
“Don’t say her name: she’s like Candyman and she’s gonna, like, kill us!!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”“I’m lonely!!!!!🥺😭”“And confused!!!!😤🍼😫”
Why does every guy that weighs in about NYC streets- but lives in California or Canada- look like this guy….and when questioned why he’s concerned…blocks! pic.twitter.com/c0mI7dLc8D
All of them, always: why?(oh look, a block-happy yimby who works at Twitter: huh)(who then, just like Hayden Clarkin, went back to delete all his tweets, aka, the yimby way)
There’s a certain kind of irony bro on here who’s too “smart” for both the left and right, just kind of above it all and always egregiously wrong about everything. Can’t think of an example off the top of my head but they bug the crap out of me.
And thinking about your “shitty 17 follower burner account.”
Not just because such an admission reveals how all of you yimby incels use ten accounts apiece as you connive an attempt to dominate the housing narrative on Twitter.
But also because your followers are quite a select crew to support such an allegedly “shitty” account.
Conversely none of your adversaries are anonymous nor do they use numerous anonymous accounts.
So, is it because of the fact that you have all these other anonymous accounts that you’re literally ashamed to fully come out about them and yourself? (Are you an embarrassed catfish and is this a case for Nev and Max?🥺😭)
Why is it all your opponents, all these “nimbys😤🍼😫,” have no problem being public with who they are? They are all clear and transparent about their identities, including me.
In contrast, all you yimbys not only have numerous accounts on top of your “mains😤🍼😫,” you also publicly admit to that practice and excuse the strangeness of it, as if this is how every Twitter user operates when it’s only all of you: a bunch of angry yimbys hiding behind fake names and anonymous accounts.
Like, for example, Taylor Austin Kessinger (@yhdistyminen) who likely enjoys passing as a yimby female perhaps because there are so few yimbellinas. Kessinger’s academic main account @nashintasapaino remains vanilla and unpopular as he spends most of his social media time, in months-long conversations at points, via the ambiguous @yhdistyminen account with its thousands of followers, occasionally posting filtered pics of himself as a “verypretty😤🍼😩” female.
— Shrieking Brain (35'0" IQ 69) (@shriekingbrains) March 16, 2022
(Why did you delete your tweet, Taylor?)
i'm from an extremely different ideological background. don't follow him, but randomly come across his tweets or replies in certain circles. my mental model of him went through significant readjustment upon seeing this reply.
— Shrieking Brain (35'0" IQ 69) (@shriekingbrains) March 16, 2022
Then there’s long-winded Amazon-HQ2LIC-stan as abusive-anonymous-asshat @BringJobs who refers to himself as “we” so to attempt to appear as some sort of official “group of concerned citizens😤🍼😫.” (He also claims Twitter has a “20-page report” on me but he is likely referring to my own appeal which is sadly longer than 20 pages as it substantiates in great detail how suspiciously weak Twitter’s case is against me.) All the people @Bringjobs pretends to be in his “group” still all remain anonymous. He might be Amazon lobbyist Guy Palumbo or he might be wealthy landlord and restauranteur Sam Musovic but he is definitely not a “we” and he’s terrified of being known for who he really is.
Equally verbose and similarly infuriated, classist, racist sealion @constans, a highly paid SoHo homeowner, used to display his real first name, Dean, in his bio. No more: he currently insists on anonymity in his never ending engagement. Makes it easier for him to play SuperSecretAgentGuyPersonWhoKnowsEverything.
I definitely understand why you keep your account anonymous now
Yep yep, we all understand why Dean loves being anonymous👋
Just because the tender dick white cult members of yimby try to present as mysterious and très très importante doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t see right through the charade.
Because we recognize you, all of you, through your anonymity.
Despite your anonymity, in fact.
We all see you while you pretend to not be what you clearly are: because you are all the same.
Aside from physically resembling each other, you all talk alike: you employ the exact same propaganda, the exact same words, over and over again.
When I had first started becoming aware of yimby back in the summer of 2019, when OpenNY member Justin Potter had briefly and halfheartedly attempted to run for senate (on a pro-Amazon platform, aka, high level clown shit), I observed the conversations you all had with each other: the exact same people, the same surly avatars, the same names, the same condescension, the same insults, the same lies and cruelty and mocking, over and over and over again.
And nothing has changed in three years.
It’s easy to see you. It’s easy to identify you, even if you’re anonymous: you’re all the same.
You reveal who you all are, whether you are using your “alt😤,” your “main🍼” or your “burner😫.”
Because why wouldn’t others notice how you and your account behave?
Why would we not take notice of you and your “shitty” account?
Think about it.
You’re being witnessed and observed just like you have witnessed and observed others.
See how that works?
And because you are so prolific in your written content, “@LES3025,” you’ve been observed a lot: your own actions have brought you attention.
Think about it: you’ve piqued people’s curiosity.
You had piqued mine even before you had tweeted that you were “honored” I had mentioned you in a post which had reminded me of that time when Ben Thypin had declared he was “flattered” by my criticism of his vanity project, real estate development lobbying groupOpen New York, from which Ben is presently trying to distance himself for, ah, whatever nefarious reasons. You express yourself like Ben, “@LES3025:” you sound like him.
And you are so prolific that you demonstrate this similarity frequently.
That’s what happens when one is so verbal with one’s false narrative propaganda: attention is drawn.
Drawn attention increases with your insistence to remain anonymous, even on the comments of almost every Village Sun article. No one else hides there: why do you?
Come on.
Think about it, Ben.
We all have.
👋
“flattered” to get the featured spot in fuelgrannie’s latest polemic. sure it makes no sense whatsoever, but i appreciate her saying my account is not, in fact, shitty. pic.twitter.com/3vZuVcuubP
Ok, so then who exactly are you, “@LES3025,” and why am I such an idiot for guessing?
“why be anonymous” asks woman who was suspended from twitter for doxxing, on her deranged blog where she casually and baselessly accuses her enemies of murder and pals around with guys who like to make death threats on here. gee i wonder.
it must be nice to be able to jet off to marfa tx next time a storm comes! most of us don’t have that luxury and need to deal with the fact that our homes will be flooded. pic.twitter.com/6iyaxdbhYm
Must be nice to be a landlord of scores of NYC units, Ben: “most of us don’t have that luxury😤🍼😫”
I wouldn't give Open NY a penny. They should mind their business and stop pushing their awful agenda on the public. Why would I donate to a Lobbyist? People think…about it.
After a two year covid hiatus, we’re back in sweet Queens!
Come explore the history of Vernon Boulevard, discuss the state of housing and development in New York City (especially in burgeoning outer borough areas), grab a beer at a local Long Island City brewery and walk through beautiful western Queens as the sun descends for Jane’s Walk 2022
well the Municipal Arts Society has finally blown what little credibility it had left: Fuelgrannie is leading a Jane's Walk through Western Queens for them this weekend https://t.co/gLUv079jJIpic.twitter.com/wcFwTU8ENl
Does she agree that the LIC waterfront is "glorious"? Literally nothing there is old except the gantries and the Pepsi sign. Even the park around them is new.
Just be grateful you don’t know. She was one of the most vicious left NIMBYs on here. All sorts of personal invective and unnecessary vulgarity. She seemed in delighting going a step further than everyone else and hence why she’s no longer on this platform.
I’ve gotten to know you by your own curious actions.
It’s been four months since you and I first interacted on that January night where minutes after engaging with you, my account got quickly suspended and you then, oddly, raced to delete your part of our conversation.
I got an email from Fuelgrannie asking to meet her for coffee, what should I do lol? (Results will dictate respinse)
And it was during that very conversation, Hayden Clarkin, where you had asked me for coffee, not the other way around. What a curious game now to claim it was my idea: it was yours.
And I emailed you back in April, a month ago, and subsequently wrote this post about you because you had tweeted about me and then deleted it.
I was curious, Hayden: that’s why I wrote my email to you and then my post about you. Curiosity.
And you keep mentioning me. You won’t email me back but you keep bringing me up on social media.
So I remain curious: I wonder if my curiosity is too much for you to understand as you’d rather talk, safely and comfortably, to your followers, rather than to me directly.
And sure, absolutely: no one in yimby circles has ever heard of me; I remain completely inconsequential to all of them, all of you, and I bet to everyone else in the world at large.
So, again, highly weird flex for you to then keep bringing me up. (“Hey, who ~*is*~ that nobody?!?!?!?😤🍼😫”)
But, then again, those are your actions.
I mean, unless you end up deleting your tweets (or your whole timeline, ooops! I mean, why *do* people keep picking on you?).
But deleting tweets is yet another action, isn’t it? Another curious action.
I know now you would never meet me for coffee: you never meant your offer back in January.
You never responded to my email. You’ll talk about me publicly, for attention, but you won’t speak to me directly.
Guess it’s a bad look to be caught whining about expiring covid rent specials in Long Island City luxury glass towers when one is founding chief executive officer of one’s own profitable nonprofit.
That’ll rattle someone into professional website privacy and a tweet delete fest, amirite?
I mean, just in case anyone else remains curious about you.
No self-respecting #Queens resident would ever use Queens as their address. We have Laurelton, Kew Gardens, Bellerose, Hillcrest, Corona, Elmhurst, Ridgewood, Edgemere, Ozone Park, Astoria, and on and on. We have street, road, drive, place, terrace, etc. But it's never Queens.
— Barry Grodenchik🇺🇦 (@BarryGrodenchik) May 6, 2022
Tell us you’re an ignorant, spoiled transplant without telling us you’re an ignorant spoiled transplant, FadeIn 👋
I think it’s hilarious the transplants are confused considering Queens uses the Philadelphia numbering system for it’s streets. 🤣
Weird to characterize that reality as such while being completely fine with it in your tweet. Its getting increasingly more difficult to understand your advocacy perspective. Will have to buy you coffee to understand talk about it!
Losing followers because I said the subway should be safer after some innocent person was shot and killed this morning is one of those moments I realize people on here should touch grass more often.
She has made her account private for the meantime (because “😤🍼😫”) yet it’s still easy to see how tashcoug nonetheless stumbled miserably here.
Because what resulted instead was pics showing less than ten such yimby individuals.
Even sloppyLaura Foote tried to help out but then ended up only yelping for assistance in thinking of moar names because she, wait for it, couldn’t think of anyone else.
The truth about privileged white male yimby screams louder than any 10 selfies or 20 stock photos as that very truth hollers through these images: the overall representation of this group remains literally self-evident and any attempts to display otherwise fall woefully flat and end up backfiring on all of you.
While the rest of us watch.
(Plus: you *rent* all of your clothes(?!) and describe independent American homeowners as a “cartel😤🍼😫”)
Maybe you yimbette gals just can’t help but confirm your critics as right because we still only see so many white men and so very few of you.
love too erase women, nonbinary people, trans people
— ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️ (@asmallteapot) May 1, 2022
Not “erasing:” just pointing out how few women, nonbinary, trans and poc there are in yimby
“My family owns literal buildings but you baby brain clowns with just ~*one*~ home? Ha! You red-nose losers have, like, a degenerative ~*brain*~ disease. Not those of us who, like, you know, own hundreds of homes, nope, not us: we’re immune!!! But you guys?!? Omg you are so mentally ill!!!!😤🍼😫”
This is right by my house and I’m absolutely disgusted by some of my neighbors rn. It’s def not a coincidence that the leader of one of these newly formed opposition groups is someone who ran for city council last year and prob will again. Rank demagoguery and opportunism. https://t.co/QOdBWjFxvG
You, mighty rich Thypin, a steel heir, disparage other people for daring to own *one* home when you and your family own enough real estate to house a small village of humans.
I am at a community meeting in which a Mitchell Lama co-op owner just went on a rant about how homeowners view things differently than renters and then asked the state elected in attendance to give co-op owners like him more money. Homeownership is a degenerative brain disease.
there’s actually ppl i used to know in govt who believe black ppl are cashing in on gentrification & getting bank off their brownstones despite not providing evidence of this happening widely??? i know investors harass black homeowners w/ low ball offers & most don’t want to sell https://t.co/70gTzCdc2u
That time when Ben Carlos Thypin’s Quantierra employee, @marketurbanism Stephen J. Smith, tried to con black property owners out of a fair price
Hi Evan, while I am a landlord (tho I am mostly a broker and routinely advocate for more supply despite its threat to my buildings’ income), CHTU impugns my integrity and erases/insults the 100s of volunteer members of ONY bc they don’t have any substantive arguments to proffer.
“It’s pretty hypocritical to be a yimby and be a landlord”
Well open NY let’s start by demanding those current developers who build an abundance of high rise buildings all over the Bx charging $3000-$4000, bring those rentals to affordable! $3,000 a month is not affordable! Make every appt affordable not a %!
Why do we need a homeowner advocate in @NYCHousing when we already have community boards advocating for homeowners almost every weeknight? pic.twitter.com/9hO06KrTf1
That is a blatant falsehood that it's being "driven by real estate interests." There are 22 different housing and integration groups signed on here. You seriously think a paranoid anonymous crank has a better idea of what's going on here then they do.https://t.co/i2KoEP7NTa
Mitchell Taylor, who owns a $2million home on Long Island, brings that sell out energy as he claims to represent the entire Queensbridge population while his history reflects an exploitation of that community for his own profit.
There’s also his repeatedhistory of sexually harassing women.
And during the summer of 2020, as covid raged and people sought outdoor refuge, Taylor’s nonprofit security company infamously and conveniently profited when Gantry Plaza State Park, a public park, was used by the, ah, public while the wealthy inhabitants of the waterfront luxury towers whined and railed about too many unwelcomed humans visible from their lofty, shiny, windowed perches.
At yesterday’s town hall, as Taylor detailed a planned “community center” to “house neighborhood nonprofits” within the 27-story towers of InnovationQNS, I could not help but wonder that the only nonprofits which might end up using that space will be those umbrellaed under Taylor’s highly profitable Urban Upbound.
I also deeply resented how much Taylor was on his phone during the event: as ever and always, he has zero clue how he comes across.
Jamison Dovoll of Silverstein Properties; Mitchie textin; Tracey Appelbaum of BedRock Real Estate Partners; and Tracy Capune of Kaufman Astoria Studios
(You too, Laura🙊)“Halp Laura now!👏Halp Laura now!👏Halp Laura now!”mayocrowd Gray matteringmayocrowdHas, like, all the answersmayocrowd Wait, like, how big?mayocrowd “Yes in ~*your*~ backyard, okayyyy???😤🍼😫”mayocrowd Murder cars, inc.mayocrowd Okmayocrowd Butmayocrowd Likemayocrowd Whiteboard and white board Cameraman so caucasian; that mayocrowd thoaThank goodness the whites are there to tell the first nations what to do. Again.mayocrowd No but waitmayocrowd Somayocrowd Yimbees mayocrowd Standing for gentrificationmayocrowdMurder infill, toomayocrowd Wymyim moarerer mayocrowd Representin’Hasn’t smiled this hurrrrd in years👍mayocrowd Omg like totally mayocrowd K but like“Ew!!! Someone cover up that ugly sky and kill muh sunshine right now!!!! Racism!!!!!!!😤🍼😫”Stunning and brave, standing tall, mayonnaise “😃😀😄”
Density isn’t “solving” things. It’s allowing more people to live near their jobs. It’s not supposed to solve the housing crisis. But not doing it is a problem and makes things work as long as people keep moving to cities & displacing current residents.
— share the cities Action Fund 📣 🥑 🏩 (@STCActionFund) April 14, 2022
“Density is not supposed to solve the housing crisis!!!!!😤🍼😫”
(Laura, wut?)
Still having trouble finding the #YIMBYtown events but the lobster here is better than we expected to be honest
— AURAE: An AURA for Everyone (@AURAEAtx) April 13, 2022
we are not in Texas, Calan; we rode our bikes to the airport and took a flight to Portland for #yimbytown and it seems like people have been avoiding us the whole time. and it's SO COLD HERE.
— AURAE: An AURA for Everyone (@AURAEAtx) April 14, 2022
can't wait to post my trip report from #yimbytown to #atxurbanists I expect there to be no further questions and just a lot of applause
— AURAE: An AURA for Everyone (@AURAEAtx) April 14, 2022
I have to really disagree with whoever said, “don’t meet your heroes.” I met at least a few of them at #yimbytown and couldn’t have been more impressed. So, so proud to have spent the week with folks working to solve one of America’s biggest problems.
The public should know your employee and #YIMBYtown event manager lives in a condo where a YIMBY developer evicted black renters. It rattles very few. https://t.co/JnQ8eZ7ZZs
Inventory (I have names) Portland YIMBYTOWN attendees: ✔️ Single family home, sheltered by trust ✔️ Living in 400k co housing, evicted black renters in another co housing complex ✔️ Working for #SightlineInstitute living in unit of those evicted rentershttps://t.co/geUKnNAI1L
I found a hater posted a bunch of great photos from the YIMBYtown conference last week and I wanna know where they got them all! Who has a good album or collection of photos? (I don't want to publicize the post, but will provide on request)
About Portland – Nobody cares a YIMBY leader evicted black renters – We in fact reward him: Honored host of workshops at YIMBYtown conference, seat on city sustainability commission. Fellow presenters: @candaceforpdx@stephrouth – Density without regulation is just gentrification pic.twitter.com/qVa5Gu2ZGX
“Nobody cares a yimby leader evicted black renters”
Every now and then someone messages me and says, "I want to get involved in YIMBY advocacy, but my city doesn't have a group." You could be the most important YIMBY: the first one! Show up, speak your piece, and document everything on Twitter!
Gosh, could it be that “every single city😤🍼😫” is onto your yimby bullshit, Ceiling Gaze Boi? Gosh, maybe that’s the reason, I mean, like, who knows, right, but, like, maybe🥺😭.
Yeah, even assuming rent control can be desirable, it seems like it should treat newcomers and long-time residents more or less equally. Otherwise, you end up minting Fuelgrannies.
Not necessarily! For example: it's really easy to kill yourself with a knife, if you want to, and suicide is something that we definitely want to discourage. Yet banning steak knives as a suicide-prevention policy would be bad policy (because we could no longer cut steaks)
She had a whole thread mocking people's physical appearances (including photos she'd taken herself at CB meetings and such). Genuinely toxic personality.
Photos I’ve taken? Huh, Danny: I think you have me confused with Casey Berkovitz
No, Dan, I just do screenshots of yimby avatars and create content about how all of you, like you yourself, are young white tech guys.
But here, curiously, is your pal Casey Berkovitz holding his cameraphone on me instead of public commenter (and his fellow OpenNYboard member) Amelia Josephson during Manhattan Community Board 2’s infamous (“chaotic”) June 2021 meeting: I wonder if he had suspected that I was going to murder Josephson so maybe he had wanted to make sure he caught my vicious soon-to-happen crime on film.
I ended up, instead, calling Josephson a “shill,” because, you know, she’s the listed on the 990 form for a real estate development lobbying group so.
And my daring to call Josephson, a transplant from Alaska who haunts Landmark Preservation meetings for the sole purpose of disparaging architectural preservation and appreciation, a “paid shill” apparently *was* akin to physical violence, at least to OpenNY Executive Director, and highly paid shill himself, Will Thomas.
“She’s the nicest person in the world!!!😤🍼😫” Thomas whined to me, one month later, after CB2’s full board vote in July 2021 which almost unanimously voted against the rezoning of SoHo NoHo.
(And it very well may be that Amelia Josephson is the “nicest person in the world😤🍼😫” but she nonetheless still remains a real estate development shill.)
ONY’s Thomas was livid with me: “And stop retweeting us too!!!! Gawd!!!!😤🍼😫”
Residents of Lower Manhattan, as well as New Yorkers and observers from all over, do not criticize New York’s Department of City Planning’s senior planner Sylvia Li because she is Asian: they do so because Sylvia Lilied to them.
Li was recently nominated for the Ibo Balton award for “community planning” from the creepy Citizens Housing Planning Council (with its Jessica Katz infamy), for having brought “equitable” scams to SoHo NoHo. Since my tweets about Li’s dishonesty are currently hidden, here are screenshots of them from over a year ago which demonstrate Li’s cruel dismissiveness towards downtown elderly residents, her blatant favoritism of Open New Yorkmembers, none of whom live in the rezoned area, and her unabashed dishonesty.
City Planners paused the meeting for their own five-minute break less than half an hour into this sham meeting: why did they need to talk privately during this barely “public” event?
HmmmmSylvia Li laughingly referred to displacement while calling elderly New York City residents and their homes “relics:” she was insulting, dismissive and cruel
That’s why so many people have a problem with Sylvia Li, not because of her ethnicity Sylvia Li wants to degrowth the artists and replace them with tech bros pretending to be artistsSylvia Li hogged the call, rambling on endlessly, eating into public engagement time: and she did that on purposePete Davies, a long time SoHo renter (not a homeowner👋🗣), calls out the years of lies told to the community by Sylvia LiSylvia Li is a cold cruel liarSylvia Li does not care about these residents: they are an impediment to her career growthBut guess who is given “privilege” and “priority?”
😐Displacement is their jamThis was a sham and we all saw itShame on you, Sylvia LiSubmitted questions by the public for the October 2020 Zoom ULURP call, the initial of four such public engagement sessions during the height of a pre-vaccination global pandemic: “almost no support for the rezoning”
My requested question was #354 on DCP’s list, on page 38 of individual queries, so I didn’t get to ask it
Funnily enough, though, Open New York’s Will Thomas was called on to speak by Sylvia Li. And going forward, he was allowed to speak on every other call, too, despite his not being a resident of SoHo NoHo and despite hundreds of other people having signed up to comment and who were turned away, which is immediately suspicious and potentially corrupt because of the obvious cronyism
Again, it ain’t your ethnicity or race which your critics abhor, Sylvia Li: it’s your blatant favoritism and your dishonesty
We’ve never not seen it
People hate your lies, Sylvia Li, not your skin color.
But keep collecting your gratuitous, crony, clubby awards and pocketing our taxpayer funding as your six-figure salary: we will all remain watching you.
(Also: all these tweets of mine about Sylvia Li, as well as this very blog post itself, are still missing all that alleged racism which I supposedly express at all given moments: weird flex, huh?)
Every public meeting in this process was functionally identical – the same participants, saying the same things, and usually in the same format. The SoHo NIMBYs spent, collectively, multiple hours shouting down and abusing _one_ specific DCP staffer (Sylvia Li).