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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
1:32:37
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131 sec
Christopher Johnson expresses support for the One Forty Five for Harlem development project while suggesting an increase in affordable housing and voicing concerns about potential community space usage. He recommends banning the National Action Network and Al Sharpton from using the proposed community space.
- Supports the land use application but calls for increasing affordable housing from 20% to at least 40%
- Urges the developer to contractually bar Al Sharpton and the National Action Network from using the community space
- Advocates for the community space to be used by "real community-based organizations" that don't promote divisiveness
Christopher Leon Johnson
1:32:37
Yeah.
1:32:37
Hello, chairs.
1:32:38
Youssef Salaam and chair, you Kevin Riley.
1:32:41
My name is Christopher Johnson.
1:32:42
On the record, I used to be a shop steward with on the MTS Access Projects.
1:32:47
I'll be on the record with that.
1:32:48
I am showing support to this land use application, and I heard this guy, what he said, mister Tidebaum, what he said about this application.
1:32:55
We need we need the housing.
1:32:57
I'm not against affordable housing.
1:33:00
At the same time, like like your recommendation, mister Salon, we need the we need to increase the amount of affordable housing in this application.
1:33:07
So I hope that mister Teitelbaum could agree with that and increase it at least by 20% instead of the 20%.
1:33:14
While at the same time, I am calling on mister Teitelbaum to work with the city council and the city planning commission and the mayor's office to ban the National Action Network and every board member, including Al Sharpton, from usage of the community space.
1:33:28
With I'm calling on that because I have a big feeling that this guy, Albert Sharpton, and the National Action Network will hijack that community center and make it amongst themselves.
1:33:37
We all know what's that's gonna happen.
1:33:38
I understand that Sharpton is not part of his application, but Sharpton in the city Of New York is a big bully in this big bully in politics, and he gets his way because he owns the democrats in the city council.
1:33:50
He's an agent of the Democratic party.
1:33:52
So I have a big feeling that Sharpton will hijack that community center and make it about himself.
1:33:57
So I know that these nonprofits are a lot of these nonprofits are scared Al Sharpton, but I'm calling mister Tuttlebob.
1:34:02
I know you have a lot of money and a lot of sway in the city that you ban Al Sharpton.
1:34:08
Make put it, like, in a contract that Al Sharpton and every person of the National National Network that's on that board is barred from using that community space.
1:34:16
That community space should be going to the of these nonprofits like Donald Bob's nonprofit and all the real community based organizations that really does work for the community, that doesn't spout anti Semitism, that doesn't spout racism and divisiveness like Albert Sharpton and National Action Network.
1:34:31
So at the end of day, like I said, I approve this project, but at the same time, the city council, the speaker, Menon or Adrian Adams, whoever, they need to come in together and make sure that Al Sharpton and a National Action Network are barred from using this community space for life.