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>"The people on the city council did not represent the the best interest of the citizens, instead trying to spin this as a stand against corporate greed."

It sounds as that you haven't spent any amount of time in Long Island City then. LIC is is home to the NYCHA housing project called The Queensbridge Houses. It has the distinction of being the country’s largest public housing project[1]. It comprises 26 buildings in various states of decay and 60% of 7K residents live on food stamps. I would say Corey Johnson et al were very much looking out for them. This is the same NYCHA that was sued by the federal government last year and ordered to invest $1 billion in repairs to the dilapidated housing stock and submit to a federal monitor.[2]. LIC's Queensbridge Houses have been very much a poster child for authority's dereliction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensbridge_Houses [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/nyregion/nycha-federal-mo...