Human-Scale City Call to Action!

A Call to Action for Supporters of the Human-Scale City  

A Picket at the REBNY Gala in Midtown on Jan 21st, 6:30.  Please come. 

Is your neighborhood  harmed by reckless and out-of-scale real estate development?  Are you troubled by the tall towers shadowing Central Park?  Are you outraged at the way unregulated air rights transfers keeps allowing Big Developers to dump immense towers in low-rise neighborhoods?  Has the city ignored your neighborhood’s pleas for a community-led development plan?  Do they dismiss your efforts to get historic district protections?   If so, then join those who have decided to do something about it.  Here is the press release for an upcoming demonstration.

Press Release for the REBNY Picket Reads as Follows:

“The annual  banquet of the real estate industry’s most powerful lobbying group, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) takes place onJanuary 21^st, 2016 at the New York Hilton, 1336 6^th Avenue at 6:30 p.m.

Every year politicians in New York City and Albany flock to this gala to rub elbows with the city’s most powerful lords of real estate.  How can they resist? REBNY’s massive political action committees have long funded politicians both in New York City and Albany.  

This year to protest the undemocratic and unregulated links between politicians and the real estate industry, community groups across the city will be picketing in front of the entrance to the gala at the Hilton.  They demand community-led planning and zoning, height restrictions, protections against displacement and hyper-gentrification, a relaunch of the Moreland Commission Against Corruption and an end to the government procedures that allow the real estate industry such outsize influence on city government. Groups include members of the Coaltion to Save Chinatown and the Lower East Side, the Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network, the South Bronx Community Congress, and individual groups from New Yorkers for a Human-scale City. 

Bring signs depicting issues specific to your neighborhood.

For more information:

juliomunoz@earthlink.net, 646-322-6698

If you can’t come to the picket at the Hilton, here are two things you can do.

1. Read and sign the petition for a human-scale city here.
2. Push a button and send a digital letter to all our politicians insisting that they reject the widely hated proposals to upzone our entire city here.  Learn more about the issue here.