UN meets bi-partisan opposition to expansion plans

New York Daily News - Home - Rotten at our core!:
"The UN wants Robert Moses Park - on First Ave. across 42nd St. from the gleaming, glass-bound landmark - for an annex to house diplomats and their staffs while the 52-year-old Secretariat building is renovated."

The administrations of Republican Governor Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg - assisted by Democrat officials including the city council speaker and the city council and state assembly members who represent the neighborhood where the UN building sits as a crumbling monument to failure - have been rebuffed in their efforts to do the UN's bidding.

Between green activists who resist any reduction in parks and open space, Jewish leaders who fault the UN's efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, unionists in solidarity with the UN staff union in its claims of nepotism and sexual harrassment, and Republicans outraged by the Oil-for-Food scandal, the chances of this landgrab going through the state legislature don't look very good right now. But that will change.