And if Amazon had come in, they would not have served to provide housing in an area that has totally unaffordable housing for current residents.
And if Amazon had come in, they would not have served to provide housing in an area that has totally unaffordable housing for current residents.
15.4K new apartments isn't enough? About 30% of those new apartments are government mandated to be "affordable". And that's just in LIC alone.
And LIC is one subway stop from Grand Central which connects to all of NYC's northern suburbs. And LIC is served directly by the LIRR Hunters Point Station which connects all of Long Island. There are multiple subway lines that connect LIC to the rest of NYC. And LIC is right next to the Sunyside rail yards which at some point in the future will be platformed over, with thousands of apartments being built on top of that platform.
If all of that isn't enough, then you build more apartments in LIC.
It's a city for goodness sakes whose population and jobs have been growing. And you and AOC a couple of white politicians who don't want to be Crowley'ed want to stop that growth.
You attract jobs and then you build housing. How else do you think a city grows?