\u201cMTV Cribs\u201d-style video<\/a> of Gracie Mansion that drew cringes from X users.<\/p>\nSnarky posters who seized on the tour \u2014 including by pointing out the clip offered a \u201cpeak\u201d inside, rather than the correct \u201cpeek\u201d \u2014 also accused the mayor of trying to steal thunder from his main election rival, socialist Zohran Mamdani, whose slick TikTok videos often highlight housing and affordability.<\/p>\n
Adams\u2019 weeklong push to highlight his administration\u2019s successes on housing \u2014 such as the \u201cCity of Yes\u201d zoning change expected to build 80,000 new homes over 15 years \u2014 comes as New Yorkers face record-high rents and a housing supply crunch.<\/p>\n
An executive order signed by Adams allowing more housing to be built on city-owned sites in part led to the Flushing Airport project. <\/p>\n
The 80-acre lot largely reverted to wetland since the airport was decommissioned in 1984.<\/p>\n
But the city\u2019s Economic Development Corporation got the ball rolling on redeveloping the site by putting out a request for proposal in November.<\/p>\n
The development will integrate into the natural landscape, officials said. S9 Architecture<\/p>\n
Roughly 20 acres will be used for housing. S9 Architecture<\/p>\n
The project will be led by city-based Cirrus Workforce Housing and LCOR Incorporated, which plan to use sustainable design elements such as mass timber construction, officials said.<\/p>\n
Housing will be built on roughly 20 acres and be integrated into a \u201cmodern wetlands environment\u201d with nature walks, rambles, open space vistas and wildlife habitat, according to officials. <\/p>\n
Roughly 60 acres will be solely devoted to public parkland.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is going to be done here is to take 20 acres along the boulevard, create 3,000 units for the working people of New York,\u201d said Joseph McDonnel, managing partner for Cirrus. \u201cThat\u2019s teachers, policemen, firefighters, nurses \u2014 people who if you actually look at statistics today, some of them are commuting from the Poconos and from Pennsylvania \u2013and to provide them dignified, high-quality housing surrounded by 60 acres of wetland that will be enjoyed not only by them but by the current residents.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, a win-win for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams also attended a groundbreaking for the third and final phase of another development project that will bring 3,500 new residents to Coney Island total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s getting flush with housing. The marshy, abandoned Flushing Airport site in College Point, Queens will land 3,000…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2556,5289,7065,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,1763,39749,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-100325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-eric-adams","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-sustainability","21":"tag-unions","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114932900478415983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}