They trashed her!
Upper East Siders opposed to the construction of a waste transfer station in their neighborhood booed City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at a mayoral forum today for her continued support of a controversial project that would send garbage trucks rumbling throughout posh area streets.
“I am not changing my position on the [marine transfer station],” Quinn declared to the crowd inside the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens on E. 93rd Street.
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, new concerns have emerged about the E. 91st site, which is now classified as a flood zone, but Quinn said structural changes would be made to prevent any storm damage.
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Christine Quinn at today's mayoral forum
Immediately, the crowd jeered and heckled.
“Why have you never visited the site?” one person demanded.
Quinn did manage to raise a stink — about the jeers.
“Hang on — if you want an answer you have to listen,” she barked. “You can scream and yell. You could throw soft things after, but you have got to let me answer if I listen to your question with attention.”
She said that the five borough plan, which she supported in 2006 and of which the East Side station is a part, is meant to take the burden off of low income neighborhoods which traditionally get saddled with the stinky facilities. Part of the city scheme — the Gansevoort Street recycling center — sits in her own district, she noted.
“I can’t stand up in this neighborhood and say your neighborhood takes something if mine does not take one.”
Still, the heckling continued.
“Don’t expect us to vote for you!”
“That’s fine,” Quinn snapped.
Meanwhile, City Council Comptroller John Liu, who has previously supported the plan, flipped his position at the forum because of Hurricane Sandy-related issues.
“It doesn’t make sense to proceed while turning a blind eye to that simple fact,” he said.
Former City Comptroller Bill Thompson and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who voted in favor of the 2006 plan, said concerns over flooding left them both on the fence, and said they both planned to visit the site. The forum was sponsored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
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