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In Manhattan Transfers over at the NY Observer, Michael Calderone covers the controversy surrounding Magic Johnson’s luxury conversion of the Williamsburg Saving Bank tower to condos.

As guests listened to smooth jazz and ate and drank cocktails in the vast, vaulted stone-and-marble bank lobby, a group of about 30 picketers formed outside, wearing little paper pins depicting skunks, slashed through with a black line.

“Sweetheart deals stink!” they shouted as they picketed. “Housing for the Needy, Not for the Greedy!” And: “Come Down, Magic! Come Down Now!”