The Angel Guardian site nonsense shows that Whiny Ratso Vito Bruno doesn't understand conservatism or what the highest and best use of private property is all about

The whining rat local Republican-Conservative candidate for state senate wanted to impose a 100% big government solution on an archaic piece of urban blight that is not even in the 22nd State Senate District where he is running  ---  and when what Vito Bruno says that he wanted failed miserably, he shifted to blaming his opponent State Senator Andrew Gounardes for something that happened completely outside of Mr. Gounardes' district

Vito Bruno's opposition to the property owner's highest and best use of the land in question  >>>  pretty much the block bounded by 63rd & 64th Streets and 12th & 13th Avenues  <<<  is not only repulsive to any real and right-thinking libertarian and/or conservative, it is absolutely phony and hypocritical for Whiny Ratso Vito Bruno to pretend that he really wanted to oppose it at all  ---  and even more so, now that Mr. Rat's pathetic & puny opposition to any of it was summarily swept aside    

In 2017,  when Whiny Ratso Vito Bruno should have been weighing-in to save the Angel Guardian buildings and site,  and he was running for an office that really had a geographical and jurisdictional link to the preservation of the buildings on that site  >>>  Whiny Ratso was literally minding his own business interests very, very nearby  --- and nary a peep about the Angel Guardian stuff.....

Yesterday, on Vito Bruno's campaign Facebook Page, Ratso was still whining about his epic fail in defending the entirety of the so-called Angel Guardian Home site on the northern fringe of Dyker Heights not far from the underused and blighted industrial lots and plots for the squatter tenant farmers alongside the ancient railroad cut for the old Bay Ridge commercial rail line.  The even though the building that housed the Angel Guardian Home was saved, other buildings on the larger site are gone or will be very shortly;  and Whiny Ratso Vito thinks that he can blame Andrew Gounardes for that, and make it stick.  In fact, the truth is that the loss of the Angel Guardian Convent building is something that more rightfully belongs at the feet of Mr. Bruno himself than at Mr. Gounardes'.  

It is all made very clear if you go back to 2017.  In that year,  the probable re-development of the Angel Guardian site was already big news at the north end of Dyker Heights.  In 2017,  Vito Bruno was running as the Republican-Conservative candidate for Borough President against Eric Adams.  A 2017 article in the Brooklyn Paper clearly stated that the Brooklyn Borough President would be a key figure in determining the future use of the Angel Guardian site.....   

If Vito Bruno were truly interested in that particular local issue  --- the future use and possibly obtaining landmark designation for the Angel Guardian site ---  he would have brought it up in and during that campaign for Brooklyn Borough President.  He didn't..... 

The reason was that Vito was too busy with the "business" of putting together elements of and promoting a particular local event at the old  "2001 Odyssey" dance club  ---   "The 40th Anniversary of 'Saturday Night Fever' ".    Interestingly, one of the honored guests at Vito's event was none other than Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.....

Even more recently than that  ---  as recent as August 11, 2020  ---  Bruno was mum when the matter was up for public comment at a hearing in front of the Landmarks Preservation Commission,  while his opponent State Senator Gounardes formally went on the record with the LPC; and at that time, his spokesperson said to the media:  "Senator Gounardes [has] been a strong supporter of landmarking the Angel Guardian Home and has worked with the commission and local stakeholders to make it happen since his election in 2018. The designation of the landmark and the construction of a new school are both exciting developments in our communities that he’s happy to support....” 

Most damning of all, however, is that Vito Bruno, who claims to be an architect from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, never attempted to get his well-respected alma mater involved in the fight to save the all the Angel Guardian buildings  as landmarks, even though Pratt has an institutional commitment to the preservation of architecturally significant landmarks in Brooklyn.