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A Growing Movement Takes on the Mega-Development

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...d?srnd=citylab

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- Sunnyside Yard has been billed as New York City’s utopian development. Activists who opposed an Amazon HQ says there’s no such thing. --- Now that movement has pivoted to stopping another mega-development project slated for western Queens. It’s a proposal that, on the surface, isn’t such an obvious target for opposition: The Sunnyside Yard plan has been billed as a “utopian” vision by some, with an emphasis on public amenities and transit, and a plan to host the city’s largest planned affordable housing community in decades.

- The activists and lawmakers who oppose the project are skeptical that any mega-development proposal can serve the needs of existing residents. As the city emerges from lockdown, organizers have begun to mobilize against developers who are pushing ahead with rezoning applications for a number of mega-projects in the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City and Flushing. --- “The grassroots groups in western Queens, which may also include the Flushing groups now, are pulling together to coordinate action against all large-scale private & luxury development in the area,” said Kristen Hackett, executive committee member of Justice For All Coalition.

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