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Originally Posted by vandelay
Those Anable Basin photos show a lot of promise. Prime waterfront real estate and broken down lowrises. Whenever people talk about how there's no more room for development in NYC you have to laugh. You can build an entire new city in Hunters Point itself, let alone LIC.
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And that doesn't take into account
Sunnyside Yards.
Manhattan may be running out of space for massive developments, but it's a big city. And officials are smart to push for development here, outside the world of glossy Manhattan.
I may not agree with everything Robert Moses did, but he understood one thing - there will always be critics. Like it or not, it's what enabled him to get a lot of things built. In New York, you expect NIMBYism for even the smallest of projects. This one will be massive. Cities and states were jumping over themselves to land this, and for good reason. The NIMBYs opposition here will be noted. When the massive WTC was proposed, they wanted to stop that too. At the very least, they will provide entertainment here, over what could be a yearlong process.