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A Living, Lurking Threat in Sandy-Hit Homes: Mold

ABC News, by Eileen AJ Connelly and Katie Zezima, February 3, 2013. Esther Tauscher stood outside her Staten Island home, leafing through boxes of family photos that had been steeped in storm water. She paused to point out life events — her honeymoon, holding her baby boy in a hospital bed. The photos are just about all she has left. Behind her, the home where she and her family lived for 14 years was being dismantled by a masked volunteer crew that tossed out her possessions and ripped out floorboards and walls.


Community And Labor Call Foul On Downtown Brooklyn Developer

Approximately 300 construction workers, community members, labor leaders, activists and elected officials gathered today on the steps of City Hall to induct Acadia Realty Trust into the Corporate Tax Dodgers Hall of Shame. The mock ceremony was intended to draw attention to the numerous subsidies that Acadia is receiving for Brooklyn’s largest development, City Point, while providing few community benefits in return.


Acadia Protest on the Steps of City Hall

WBAI, By Linda Perry, January 31, 2013. Hundreds of construction workers, activists, and elected officials gathers on the steps of City Hall today to bring attention to a real estate development group that gets tax breaks and public subsidies to develop a shopping area in downtown Brooklyn while providing few community benefits in return.



Gary LaBarbara of Building Trades Thrashes City Point Developers as Community Groups Rally for Changes

The New York Observer, by Al Barabino, January 31, 2013. Gary LaBarbara has an axe to grind with developers at City Point before they dig any deeper into Downtown Brooklyn. In a move that could exacerbate friction that’s already occurring at the community level, the president of the Building & Construction Trades Council of New York thrashed the builders of the development project, claiming that they are “failing” to meet the needs of the community by instead catering to private interests.


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