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Re:Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo by ng12 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:37PM (#18820023)
> (BTW I say "seize" because what you're proposing would never happen alone on any significant scale without eminent domain).

How so? Landlords would jump to sell their rent-controlled buildings to developers who are champing at the bit. City programs are the only thing preventing development from happening.

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Re:Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo by drugme on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:54PM (#18820157)
Landlords would jump to sell their rent-controlled buildings to developers who are champing at the bit.

This is wishful thinking, on a number of fronts.

For example one does not simply "sell" (meaning, in the context of proposed redevelopment: purge all the tenants from) a rent-controlled building in NYC. Or even an existing coop or condo building, for example.

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