That is an overall sad article describing the consequences of well intended progressive policies which have exacerbated the very problems they were designed to ameliorate.
Hypocrisy espoused by some of these very same progressives is not all that shocking.
Here is a succinct takeaway quote from the piece:
My first instinct in reading Taylor’s story, and in observing the anguished reaction from Dumbo parents who see themselves as committed progressives, is to note their hypocrisy. As Laurie Lin recently remarked, it’s easy to imagine how these Dumbo progressives might have reacted had this story unfolded in Atlanta or Birmingham — they’d surely chalk up resistance to the rezoning to racism.