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Originally Posted by NYguy
The density I like, and the fact that we have four different developers working on individual pieces makes this more likely to succeed. There's one more planning meeting to be held before this is even presented to the City as a plan to be approved. But you just know the NIMBYs will be screaming about a 70-story building, I don't care how many affordable units you try to cram into it. It will be Amazon part II. But this needs to get done, and could be done in a fraction of the time it will take to build out Sunnyside Yards. It's New York City. There will be pockets of density and tall buildings. People need to get over that.
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The commitment to building affordable units only on land that is currently publicly owned seems like a significant concession to me, as is the significant amount of green space. The land there is not accessible as is. Creating space that is open to the public and with a lot of affordable housing should be an easy win. It's not like these kinds of developments are out of place in that part of LIC/Hunter's Point.
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