Hudson Yards will fail as a project if it doesn't implement a phase 2 that includes housing options that are available to more than just the upscale buyers that phase 1 catered to.
As things are, Hudson Yards is a fairly sterile development without really being a neighborhood in its own right. This is mostly because, by nature of being built over rail yards, it's a fairly isolated area, excepting the people visiting or commuting via the subway.
If the developers build just another towering, glorified pleasure palace akin to the grandeur of what the first phase promised, we will just get the same results - a half-empty mall, a closed attraction, and a series of glitzy parks that sit mostly unused.
We can and must do better. NYC is a city of people, not consumers.
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