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Old Posted May 9, 2007, 5:11 AM
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Its called their livelihood!
They are a public menace. If the government steps in to shut down an industrial plant that is releasing harmful pollutants, couldn't the company say the same thing? "It's our livelihood!"

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Commisar Bloomber has no right to wipe out small businessmen to build more luxury housing and hotels.
Please be informed first before making inaccurate statements. The housing will largely be affordable.

The businesses may be small but these chop shop owners are not poor. If they are like any of the many car repair shops, they probably rip customers off.

Many live in the posh suburbs while using valuable city land to conduct their dirty trade.

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Bloomberg only thinks in terms of big business and not in terms of the small entrepreneur. These businesses are breaking no law, they pay taxes, employ people and service customers.
These businesses are causing an environmental disaster. The toxic runoffs from these chop shops find their way into the waterways and shores all along the Long Island Sound.

The new businesses will also employ people (more, too) and service customers, all without damaging the environment.

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These small businesses will be replaced with corporate brand hotels where the only long term employment consists of maids and janitors. The low pay service sector servicing corporate execs is the only vision for New York that Bloomberg has.
Once again, you make unsubstantiated statements based on nothing but your wild guesses.

The only people making a good living right now are the crooked shop owners that

1) hire illegals (at obviously low wages and health insurance? Ha!)
2) cheat their customers
3) create a health hazard to both workers and Queens residents alike

The new development will bring retail, meaning there will be small business owners, more jobs than what is there now, generate revenue many times more for the local economy than the current business could ever dream of and finally reclaim a piece of the city that has largely been nothing but a wasteland.


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As if the City has not wasted enough tax dollars in financing the construction of a Mets Stadium, more tax dollars are going to use eminent domain to replace existing legitimate businesses and finance the new construction.
More ignorant statements. The Mets financed their own stadium construction. That is why they sold bonds.

The City is also not financing any part of the construction at Willets Point. In fact, the City is not doing any construction themselves, never had.

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And please stop blaming the small businessmen for the lack of roads and sewers. It it is the responsibility of the City to build infrastructure not small businesses. This is a corporate welfare boondoggle plain and simple.
Only in your uninformed and imaginary mind.

This will finally turn a piece of disgusting land that is harmful to people working there and the people in the surrounding area into a livable neighborhood and join the rest of city in the 21st century.

The affordable housing is desperately needed, the retail shops will attract many stadium goers before and after a Mets game.

The convention center will bring in shows that would other bypass the city altogether and bring visitors who will drop their dollars in the shops and hotels.

Boondoggle? Only in your fuzzy dreams.

Last edited by antinimby; May 9, 2007 at 5:16 AM.
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