Video by George Lou, Chinatown resident
We'd like to thank George for donating his time to document this historic event, thanks George!
This is a quote from Wellington Chen, Exec. Dir. of Chinatown Partnership LDC in an attempt to diminish the efforts of hardworking tax-paying property owners in Chinatown who have to work against his world-class lobbyist in order to be heard:
"Chen believes Chinatown is at a crossroads. It has the choice of rallying around a BID, of keeping the streets clean and of protecting the neighborhood for decades to come. Or, he said, the community can remain divided and it can forfeit the chance for self-improvement for many years.
“Who in their right mind would try to try this again?” he asked.
He told me opponents of the BID are loud and skilled at the game of media manipulation, but that they represent a tiny constituency." from www.thelodownny.com
Who are the ones really in charge of media manipulation? The community who is out on the street or the CPLDC who hires professional lobbyists who work for Real Estate Developers?
In 2010 and again in 2011 Chinatown Partnership LDC hired Rubenstein Public Relations to promote the Chinatown B.I.D.
and The Chinatown Partnership LDC whose purpose is to professionally target and lobby City Council Members to Vote "yes" to approve the Chinatown B.I.D.
Real Estate:
Bizzi & Partners
The Setai Fifth Avenue
Brown Harris Stevens
Capstone Equities
Nest Seekers International
Halstead Property
Prodigy International
Estates at Alpine
Concierge Auctions
Swig Equities
366 Fifth Avenue/Joseph P. Day
Gal Nauer/”The Plaza Unveiled”
Corigin Holdings
Lisa Lippman
Paula DelNunzio
Azure
Madison International Realty
Century Properties, Inc.
Clipper Equity
WEmi:t
The Galleria Group
Keller Williams NYC
Morris Adjmi Architects
Savanna
