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Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election
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Because this isn’t eminent domain. They wouldn’t be taking Trump Plaza to widen the street. This is Albany’s job.
Are you telling me that you honestly believe that the City of New York (via the state of New York) can't use eminent domain to turn that plaza into a park, school or subway station.
Because they absolutely can.
Yes, last I looked they don’t have the right to seize property on that scale.
Uh huh. Meanwhile, back in reality, New York City is currently demoing an entire neighborhood for part of a subway line.
Which was done under the MTA. The MTA is a NY State organization not an NYC one. Again this is all the role of Albany.
You're conflating the initiator with the mechanism. I literally said "through the state", in my previous response.
A park wouldn't have anything to do with MTA at all, yet that is also a common usage for eminent domain.
You're purposefully missing the point & I think we are done here.
So if you are saying that it is happening because the state agency why would you think the city has that right? The state is required to seize property as the result of criminal penalties not the city.