Posted on 02/04/2015 3:31:21 PM PST by dennisw
Alicia Glen, the city’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said in an interview.
“Density doesn’t have to be a bad word,” Ms. Glen added. “We want to explain the benefits of density, and why density is not, per se, a scary thing.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday is set to declare housing as the focal point of his second year in office, unveiling a vision for an even denser yet more affordable New York City that will transform neighborhoods from East Harlem in Manhattan to Staten Island’s North Shore.
The mayor’s mission: to convince New Yorkers that his plan to build more, and build higher, can improve the quality of life for residents across all income levels, even as many have come to associate construction cranes and high-rise buildings with the out-of-reach opulence of the upper class.
In his second State of the City address, Mr. de Blasio plans to invoke the city’s post-World War II building boom, when large housing complexes like Stuyvesant Town offered shelter and security to middle- and working-class New Yorkers.
Officials said the mayor would announce new plans to rezone two more neighborhoods, East Harlem and Stapleton, Staten Island, to allow for taller and larger residential buildings. Mr. de Blasio intends to make affordable apartments a requirement, not an option, in those developments — along with four others across the city — and he will offer new protections for current tenants who fear being forced out by the changes.
The mayor also plans to call for the construction of 160,000 new market-rate apartments over the next decade, hoping that a larger supply of housing will help reduce rents more broadly.
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Is that the shanty town above the seaport of La Guairá,
Venezuela?
I’ll believe it when the Dakota is converted low income studio apartments.
Look at that- plenty of room for a tent city on the grounds of Gracie Mansion. Call in OWS!
Because social research shows that rats crowded into a cage become kinder and gentler and learn to use public transportation?
The rat overcrowding experiments were on my mind when I wrote that. Or should I have said “’rats?”
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