Watch: Brooklyn Rep. Blasts De Blasio, City Hall In Fiery Facebook Lives

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Assemblywoman Diana Richardson took to Facebook Live on Tuesday morning for a pair of fiery screeds against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other elected officials over plans to redevelop the Bedford-Union Armory and put a new homeless shelter a block away.

Richardson railed against the proposed redevelopment that would turn the former National Guard armory into a recreational facility that contains a split of affordable and market-rate housing. She also blasted the decision by the mayor to open another homeless shelter, this one at 265 Rogers Ave., in what she said was a neighborhood oversaturated with them.

"I’m so disappointed in my colleagues that are elected officials," she said in one video before calling out City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, Assemblyman Walter Mosely and de Blasio by name.

Cumbo has not voiced a strong opinion either way about the Armory development; Mosely told Kings County Politics that 100 percent affordable housing in the development is not sustainable.

(Mosley, in whose district the Aromry actually sits, told Patch he didn't want to respond to Richardson.)

Richardson started the morning outside of the state capitol building in Albany.

"I’m livid guys," Richardson said, standing on the snow-dusted capitol's steps.

"What we are really fighting against is the 58 $1 million condominiums," Richardson said. "We are fighting against the clear indication of there being no affordability in the housing that is being offered. The housing is unaffordable to community residents. It’s as simple as that."

While the armory is technically outside of her district, she says the proximity has a direct effect on her constituents.

"Community residents don’t even know about these district lines. All they know is Bedford, Rogers, Nostrand, New York," she said, referring to the major thoroughfares in the neighborhood.

Richardson, though, wasn't done with just one video.

In a second video posted minutes later, Richardson is seated inside of her office. “I want to show you guys something,” she says, walking up to a map posted on her wall, showing the location of the Armory and the proposed shelter.

"We’re getting 130 beds of a shelter, but they can’t even give us 130 work-force affordable or low-income housing," Richardson said, rapping her pen against the map. "Not one senior citizen could afford to live in the Bedford-Union Armory under the current housing situation. I want to know who these elected officials are representing. It can’t be the people."

A recent analysis showed that 83 percent of the 386 housing units at the armory, which include rentals and condos, will be affordable for families of three making $90,000 a year.

The shelter on Rogers Avenue is one of 90 facilities that the mayor plans to open over the next five years and one of three within a mile radius in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights.

Patch has reached out to the offices of the mayor and Cumbo for comment, and we'll update this story if we hear back.

Image: Screenshot, Diana Richardson's office

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misstated the day the videos were filmed. They were broadcast Tuesday, not Thursday.