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Vol. 30, Issue 16 BROOKLYN EDITION April 19–25, 2019
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By Nelson A. King
New York City Public Advocate
Jumaane D. Williams
on Tuesday denounce what
he characterized as Hudson
Yard’s “wealthy-focused business
practices,” which includes
“many cashless businesses
and the unsavory use of the
EB-5 program to claim funds
intended for economically distressed
19
areas.”
Following a press conference
in front of Hudson Yards,
Williams, the former representative
for the 45th Council
District in Brooklyn, sent a letter
to the management of the
project, discussing his objections
and requesting that they
be addressed.
As reported in CityLab and
elsewhere, Hudson Yards was
partially financed through
the EB-5 visa program, which
allows for the acquisition of
visas in exchange for large
investment in developing what
is deemed an “economically
distressed area,” as determined
by “targeted employment
areas,” or TEAs, with 150 percent
the national rate of unemployment.
Hudson Yards was drawn
into a map by Empire State
Development, which places
the neighborhood in the same
TEA as several public housing
developments in northern
Manhattan. This allowed for
US$1.2 billion in funding to
be invested in luxury location,
Williams said.
“By drawing this map, the
state let Hudson Yards call
itself an ‘economically dis
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By Bert Wilkinson
Flush with shame and
criticism about the way they
treated colonial era West Indian
migrants authorities in
England earlier this month
announced plans to compensate
nationals who were forcibly
deported back home or were
denied health care and other
basic services because they
were misclassified as illegals
but the amounts being proffered
appear set to trigger yet
another controversy over the
so-called Windrush generation
of Caribbean immigrants.
From around 1948, Britain
sent large passenger vessels to
Caribbean colonies to pick up
people who were interested in
settling in the United Kingdom,
helping it to rebuild a
country ravaged by German
bombs and U-boats after World
War Two. Thousands of West
Indians, mostly Jamaicans,
boarded the ships like the
Empire Windrush to various
cities believing that they were
landing there legally because
they were born in the British
Commonwealth. Many never
bothered to verify immigration
papers or to understand the
country’s immigration policies
until the rules changed in the
1980s, rendering hundreds of
them as illegals despite the fact
they were brought to the country
legally and at the invitation
of Her Majesty’s government.
In the not so distant past,
families of many who were
deported mostly to Jamaica,
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Williams denounces Hudson Yards business practices
FALSE
DAWN
Windrush compensation package
may not be all that it seems
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