Filed under: Thank God We Were Home Watching 30 Rock Instead of Sitting in This Community Meeting By Liz Spikol May 11, 2012, 5:20pm EDT "No one really expected the conversation last night to be genial, given that the matter at hand was the Women's Community Revitalization Project's (WCRP) proposal to tear down a graceful old bank building (Hot-Button Issue No. 1) and put up instead ultra-low-income (HBI No. 2) rental (HBI No. 3) housing with no green space (HBI No. 4). It didn't help that there were a whopping 25 residential units planned for the site on Front and Norris, with just a couple no commercial spaces, even though Front Street is zoned as a commercial corridor. It also didn't help that the meeting was a three-way affair between Norris Square Civic Association (NSCA), Fishtown Neighbors (FNA) and East Kensington Neighbors Association, and that all sorts of conflicts and grudges were also in play. Spoiler: There was lots of ugly talk about gentrifiers, and the vote went 60-to-21 against the project." [CP]