The political version of pork is always interesting to watch. “The Department of Housing Preservation and Development put aside $2 million to counsel and protect tenants, and said it would hire local groups to do the work. A coalition of seven nonprofits from the neighborhood applied as one in a bid to handle the whole project. The city liked them well enough to give them $1.3 million and more than half of the area as their territory. Who got the rest? Some went to United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, an Orthodox group that politicians like to court. It asked to serve the Orthodox parts of Williamsburg that it knows better than any other group, and got $216,570 to do it. But how to explain the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council? That group – synonymous with its founder, Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the powerful head of the Assembly Housing Committee – applied for areas it wanted. The city agreed and gave it $475,265.–NYDN