Nearly two years ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a grand vision for an affordable housing development.
"It's an opportunity to keep our city affordable for thousands of New Yorkers, particularly in the borough of Queens. I am referring to Sunnyside Yards," de Blasio said in February 2015.
Planners wanted New Yorkers to picture thousands of units of affordable housing above a 200-acre railyard in Sunnyside, Queens.
But since the proposal was first unveiled, we've haven't heard much. So has it gone off track?
"There is a lot of back and forth happening right now, both within the administration and with some of the engineers we are consulting with about different development scenarios, exactly what is feasible," said Wiley Norvell, communications adviser to de Blasio.
According to the project's timeline, the city was supposed to unveil a feasibility study in the summer of 2016. The administration says that study, which cost about $2.5 million, is not complete. It's coming, they promise, within a few months.
The local councilman, Jimmy Van Bramer, questions whether the whole project has just derailed.
"When you make a big important speech and you are the mayor, people listen and they hear it," Van Bramer said. "We've gone through this study phase, and now, I think people are getting a little agitated about where is it, what's happening here, why aren't we hearing back."
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Because deBozo is behind it, hence its going nowhere! Crappie, can you do a quick post on how deBozo totally blew off the 100 who were injured in the LIRR derailment in Brooklyn this week? It was a big story, Cuomo was on the scene. deBozo was a mile away at an art exhibit and couldn't be bothered to make an appearance since as he says "no one died." The media was all over that and who could blame them, it's appalling!
It's going nowhere because De Faustio has no credibility, and his cheap ass puppet masters at REBNY have no desire to give adequate housing to the working poor and middle class.
Everyone should write something about his blowing off of the LIRR crash victims the emergency services that was at the scene a mere half a mile where he was holding that pop-up agitprop photo exhibit touting the optical drop in crime. The Blaz is acting like a fucking gangster and somehow the upper echelons at the NYPD are propping him up and are now a part of his re-election campaign.
Government at its finest, TWO AND ONE HALF MILLION DOLLARS AND OVER TWO YEARS to do a study!
This must be quite the contemplative team.
Are they designing a Mars rocket, a lunar lander, a space shuttle?
NO, an over glorified feasibility study.
Another horrific waste of money. Your hard earned tax dollars!
And what will we obtain from this study?
Endless pages of drivel with useless TWO YEAR OLD information, justifying whatever proposal that the powers that be want put forward.
Remember, this is why government always fails and private industry always wins!!!
JVB must be mad no money is being put in his pockets and he is not a happy about that -
200 acres of rail yard to build over? Are you fucking kidding me? We don't have enough congestion in this area? Does any realize how many densely packed shit holes can be crammed in 200 acres? I don't give a shit if it is "affordable" future slums for the "poor" or high end apts for the wealthy, we don't need more people stuffed into this area. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
"The local councilman, Jimmy Van Bramer, questions whether the whole project has just derailed.
"When you make a big important speech and you are the mayor, people listen and they hear it," Van Bramer said. "We've gone through this study phase, and now, I think people are getting a little agitated about where is it, what's happening here, why aren't we hearing back."
Is JVB Contemplating a mayoralty run?
"200 acres of rail yard to build over"
Doubt they can do it.
That land is all soft glacial and former swamp.
They would need to sink 1000's of deep DEEP piles, perhaps 2 years of non stop hammering, all the surrounding buildings and roadway bridges would be damaged . Including compromising the cross river train tunnels that from what I understand sit in mud on the Queens side.
Is JVB Contemplating a mayoralty run?
yes. I said this last summer I think when he got a sudden populist streak trying to defend a landmark building being illegally defaced by contractors. I don't think he was successful. He also had that astroturfed march against Trump.
In the 1990s, Con Ed's Drew Manger wanted to turn it into a biotech research park.
There has been talk about this for many years. What do they plan to really put here, and what do they mean by affordable? I see pricing very close to that $800k for a 1 br condo deal , smells very bad. THE WOLVES ARE SALIVATING !
some great ideas, a large educational campus. Temporary homeless housing in permanent structures. fill with 20x100 lots zoned for 2 family buildings, with green space requirements. Or bring a mega Mitchell Lama project for the masses, Families with $45,000 to $125,000 per year household incomes.
The major impact for any project at this location is the traffic, it is just horrible.
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