To the editor:
The mystery of why opponents of Montefiore’s plan to build a medical center on Riverdale Avenue prefer a 14-story apartment building to a six-story medical facility has now been solved: “their main concern with the apartment high-rise appeared to be that it might include affordable housing,” The Riverdale Press reports (“Activists welcome Simone’s plan B,” Aug. 20).
Montefiore serves a mostly low- and moderate-income population. The opponents, it is now clear, were mainly motivated by the fear that low-income people from elsewhere in the Bronx would descend on Riverdale. Hence their rejection of Montefiore’s compromise, and their embrace of an alternative more than twice as large — on condition that it not be “affordable.”
Ron Wegsman