City comptroller Scott Stringer and assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal have issued a letter to air their grievances over the mayor's plan to move 55 units of affordable housing promised for the Upper West Side without consulting community leaders. The apartments were promised in the area as part of a Collegiate School expansion, but were moved when Collegiate claimed they couldn't find a site in the neighborhood to build and instead offered the city $50 million to construct the housing elsewhere. Stringer and Rosenthal counter that the deal means that there's "no guarantee [the units] will ever be built." [NYP; previously]
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