re: #99 lawhawk

In the NYC metro area - it definitely is a bipartisan clusterfuck. You’ve got politicians on both sides of the aisle posturing, preening, and looking for the cameras (with the curious exception of Sen. Schumer). Bloomberg stuck his neck out to defend the project and isn’t running for office again. Paterson isn’t running for reelection and tried to have it both ways.

For me, the issue was decided when the Community Board approved the project and then further backed the rejection of landmarking for the building that would ease the construction of the project. When the LPC rejected the landmarking, that should have been the end of it.

Instead, the echo chamber got turned up to 11 and national politicians began chiming in.

You’re 100 percent correct. It’s really not a partisan issue here (the entire NY-NJ-CT area). The feelings run deep, but that’s one of the reasons we got a constitution right?