The acrimony between the elected officials in this “New Domino” fiasco is indeed a reflection and reflector against the antics of the community organizations–who, it almost goes without saying, are frequently in dialogue with those officials and shape their attitude to politics and to their political peers. Before New Domino, North Brooklyn enjoyed a unique and broad coalition of community organizations shattered by “Broadway Triangle” (Williamsburg locals know what I’m referencing).

In the current state, that former coalition bickers, marring dialogue and preventing the imagination required to forward an array of proposals and counter-proposals against the blandness and impotency of the one “main plan” by Community Preservation Corporation Resources. Most of that bickering comes from and is fueled by an even looser association of so-called “independent persons” in the community, who behave more like charlatans, given in to the politics of innuendo and slander–that is, innuendo and slander of the Hispanic community.

Resentful towards negotiation involving affordable housing for that community by its own representatives, this informal “independent” association, led by a venal landlord with deep ties to the gentrification of that Hispanic community, has polluted the discourse with unsubstantiated claims of unethical behavior, civil and criminal offenses, as well as purporting criminally inappropriate associations between the main developer and Hispanic community organizations who have prevailed against housing lapses in Williamsburg for the past five decades. This informal association has even compelled a local media organ to portray the Hispanic community without flatter (to be kind) and has attempted to prevent responses by the community representatives it has targeted. And during this pollution, this informal association has not seen fit to offer counter-proposals, or even forum for ideas, or otherwise engage the Hispanic community, while simultaneously condemning the Hispanic community for short sightedness, lack of counter-proposals, and forum for ideas. Whereas the tensions between the local officials have begun to see the light of media, and thus condemned to superficial observation and comment. If Yeshiva World or anyone wishes a more nuanced, complete and intriguing account of the politics behind “New Domino,” it would behoove them to investigate how the larger Williamsburg community has undone itself by rejecting their Hispanic peers.