The 31-acre site spanning the three Brooklyn neighborhoods has sat largely vacant while a lawsuit that has exposed religious and racial divisions over low-cost housing has brewed for two years.
And a recent court ruling assures that nothing will get built anytime soon.
In the latest chapter of the city’s contentious Broadway Triangle plan to build affordable housing, a State Supreme Court judge in Manhattan issued a temporary order last month blocking the project, while delivering a blistering critique of the Bloomberg administration, saying it had essentially colluded with Hasidic Jews to discriminate against blacks and Latinos.
