TESTIMONY
Alicia Boyd, Community Representative from the Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), on NYC's Public Safety, Urban Development, and Governance Concerns
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Alicia Boyd highlights a range of issues affecting NYC communities, from public safety to controversial development plans.
- Boyd cites problems like unlicensed motorized vehicles on sidewalks, excessive policing in subways, unauthorized cannabis shops, and hazardous energy storage in Crown Heights and Flatbush.
- She criticizes proposals to allow manufacturing businesses into residential and commercial zones without sufficient environmental impact studies or regulatory oversight from the Department of Buildings (DOB).
- Boyd expresses concerns over the prioritization of concrete over green spaces, plans for casinos, and a substantial population decline in the city.
- She calls on the City Council to reject the mayor's initiatives and instead engage directly with communities to address their needs and concerns.
Alicia Boyd
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Hi.
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My name is Alicia Boyd, and I represent Crown Heights and Flatbush underneath the movement to protect the people.
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Currently in this city, we have unlicensed motorized vehicles that dominate our sidewalks.
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We're unable to get to our seniors because we have closed streets that are called themselves open.
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We have a police state in our trains with thousands of cops and a national guard, and now the metal detectors are being employed.
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We have unlawful weed shops everywhere.
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We have bad ooies.
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Storage that's killing people and causing fires.
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Our green spaces are being targeted for concrete and more concrete.
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And our city is literally sinking as we're proposing to put casinos there.
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And now we have people leaving the city of New York in hundreds of thousands.
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Every year.
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The mayor has the lowest approval rating in the history of mayors with a continued downward spiral and were rated the worst city in America to live in.
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Now we have proposals coming by the mayor and corporations to deregulate manufacturing businesses and allow manufacturing businesses to come into commercial quarters, allowing them into our residential neighborhoods inside of our apartment buildings, under the pretenses, somehow, we're gonna regulate that, and we're gonna make sure that the people are safe because we got environmental laws.
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Which were not implied or even done here.
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How do you take manufacturing zone businesses that are only supposed to be in manufacturing neighborhoods.
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Allow them now to come into commercial residential and say that you are buying by environment laws, and you did not even do an environment to impact statement.
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But now we're supposed to believe that you're gonna keep us safe.
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That the DOB, which is a notorious agency of corruption, is now going to sit there and enforce even more violations that will occur.
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I access the city council, pay attention to their oath, to the people.
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To protect and preserve us and to vote down these proposal and tell Eric Adams and all of his crummy friends to do it over.
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To come to us, access what we want, sit down with us, have a conversation, and not throw this at us, down our throats.
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Thank you.
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