Broadway Triangle Coalition alleges housing discrimination
The Broadway Triangle Community Coalition, several City Council members and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A protested in front of City Hall on Wednesday, demanding that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg halt housing segregation in Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The Broadway Triangle area, which sits within both neighborhoods, was re-zoned from manufacturing and commercial use to residential in order to allow for the development of mid-rise residential buildings — including affordable housing. It was re-zoned to allow for mid-rise residential buildings in order to preserve the overall physical scale of the neighborhood.
In 2009, the coalition filed a lawsuit challenging New York City to build affordable housing on the 31-acre land that addressed the “decades of racial and religious segregation.” The Broadway Triangle, the suit asserted, “is a heavily segregated white Hasidic community.”