Families earning less than $21,000 can never be accommodated in private sector housing, subsidized and zoning bonused or not. Housing for people earning so very little will likely need to be publicly-provided housing. So much of the housing crisis in the City is a result of the Federal abdication of responsibility to provide a safety net for the most vulnerable in society, including backing away from a commitment to public housing finance. Until the feds play a real financial role again in subsidizing housing for the poor through up-front, long-term money (not just tax credits) - let's rally for that! - we will have an extreme deficit of affordable housing. Expecting new construction, especially in a construction market as expensive as New York's, to provide housing affordable to such very low-income families is unrealistic.

I think this campaign needs to focus instead on the very realistic "asks": Make the traffic work. Create viable, amenity-rich public spaces. Lower the densities (and, therefore, bulk of development) to that which could reasonably be absorbed in the next ten years. Use significantly less than two city blocks for staging.

Finally, ask the question about the relationship between the stadium and the housing and office development. They are intrinsically interrelated. The stadium was proposed to sell key electeds on the notion of the development. And the stadium is to be financed in large part by the development - awfully speculative, especially on the very outer edges of downtown Brooklyn in an office market that is cool at best and second or third tier to begin with. Are we really so desperate for a major league sports team, Brooklyn?