From Crains:The Bloomberg administration broke ground Monday on the first phase of a huge residential project on the Queens waterfront that is destined to become the largest such development since Co-op City was built in the Bronx over forty years ago.
First to rise in Hunter's Point South section of Long Island City will be a pair of 30-plus story apartment towers, with 925 units. Before sinking his ceremonial shovel to the soil the mouth of Newtown Creek, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that two more towers will follow. The administration is poised to kick off the second phase of the project next month, when the city seeks a developer for another 1,000 units.
Monday's ceremony is another indication that the mayor is not shirking away from the waterfront in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
So we're subsidizing waterfront development in an area that was underwater during the hurricane. That's really smart. 27 inch sea level rise by 2050...
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Are they building it waterproof?
Wait until the floods come.
You are talking 'waterfront' like its Lake Tahoe.
This is FEET away from the most toxic superfund site in the country: Newtown Creek.
The impact that living here will have on residents, particularly children, is right up there with raising your kids on the garbage dumps of Rio or the ship breaking beaches of India.
Of course as long as mommy and daddy take the tykes out to play in the rising waters like the videos on Youtube showed before Sandy, or in a Halloween Parade right after like those jerks did in Queens West, what's the problem .... until the cancers and worse appear.
Then fear of hurting real estate values and burying your head in the muck at the bottom of the creek will be trumped by lawsuits on the city for doing something like this.
Of course, by then those responsible will either be in jail, living in Bermuda with wife #2, or dead. You and I will be stuck with the bill.
You can sell a hipster ANYTHING!
Like Ostriches, they've got their heads buried in the sand...make that their asses!
This is not the Cote D'azur!
I hoping there's another landfill to the west of Queens West - just to block the views of those over-sized towers. Let's have a few more East River tunnels and put the spoil where it will do the most good.
Bloomberg develops more luxury units, while the homeless population, which now includes many who work but can't afford a decent apartment. Bloomberg is the biggest disaster to happen to the NYC middle class since ...... well Sandy.
Given Chamber of Commerce chied John J Halleran's promotion of third ward overdevelopment, aren't his scion's objections hypocritical?
Who is the builder ?
Dubuque, Des Moines, Boise, Bismark and Sioux City are looking better and better. Living in NYC all my life has taught me that being the biggest doesn't necessarily mean being the best. While NYC is getting bigger and bigger, its luster is steadily fading.
The pols always take the easy route - the try to marginalize the community as soon as possible and get campaign donations from the developers as a thank you.
Their fellow partners in crime in the local papers laud their acumen and genius.
Gotta pack more of those hedge fund scum 'finance wizzes' into LIC!
Gotta do it!
They can't afford Manhattan anymore!
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