Mayor Eric Adams
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This autumn, the leaves aren’t the one issues which can be falling. The Adams administration has introduced down the price of baby care, minimize taxes for working-class households, and lowered unemployment for New Yorkers.
Final week, we launched our ‘Affordable Autumn’ initiative to focus on our work in saving New Yorkers cash and introducing new initiatives to make New York Metropolis extra reasonably priced — which begins with constructing the properties New Yorkers want and deserve.
We’re advancing daring, formidable options to our metropolis’s housing disaster. Final Monday, New York took a large step in direction of an reasonably priced future for our residents when the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Job Pressure accepted a $3.5 billion imaginative and prescient plan for the way forward for Pink Hook.
Not solely will this undertaking ship 6,000 housing models on the waterfront — with 2,400 of them being completely reasonably priced — however it’s going to flip a crumbling marine terminal into a contemporary maritime port whereas creating tens of hundreds of good-paying jobs. This initiative isn’t only for the New Yorkers of right now — we’re turning our waterfront right into a ‘Harbor of the Future’ and unlocking alternative for generations to return.
We’re additionally considering creatively about how one can make the most of each obtainable area for the housing New Yorkers want, in Brooklyn and all through the complete metropolis. The place previous administrations noticed vacant heaps and previous workplace buildings, ours noticed a possibility for housing equality. Final 12 months, we issued Govt Order 43, requiring each metropolis company to assessment its properties and determine areas the place new housing might be constructed — as a result of you’ll be able to’t clear up a housing disaster when metropolis authorities is holding onto underutilized land.
Now that it has been somewhat over a 12 months, we’re able to report the outcomes of our work. Due to our govt order, we’ve already superior almost 10,000 properties throughout 11 completely different city-owned websites. At only one website in Queens, we’re turning the deserted Flushing Airport into 3,000 new properties and 60 acres of open area.
At one other website in Manhattan, simply steps from Metropolis Corridor, we’re tearing down a deteriorating metropolis workplace constructing and turning it into over 1,000 new properties. And within the Bronx, we’re constructing a complete new library on the Grand Concourse and including properties alongside it.
Simply final week, we added three new websites to that rising record. In Bensonhurst, we’re redeveloping the New Utrecht Library — creating a brand new, state-of-the-art department and including 100% reasonably priced housing on the adjoining city-owned car parking zone. In Williamsburg, we’re turning one of many space’s final underutilized waterfront websites into 900 new properties with vibrant open area alongside the river. And in East Harlem, we’re turning a city-owned car parking zone subsequent to a public hospital into 800 new properties.
While you put all of our work collectively — the properties we’ve created, preserved, and deliberate — it provides as much as over 426,800 properties thus far. That’s nearly half one million households who may have a spot to construct their lives, to make recollections, to plant roots in a group — and it’s the Adams administration who’re combating for them.
I’ve mentioned this earlier than, however I’ll say it once more: we’re essentially the most pro-housing administration in metropolis historical past. Not simply because we invested document quantities of cash into new housing or as a result of we created a document variety of new properties — though we’re doing each of these issues; not simply because we linked a document variety of New Yorkers to reasonably priced housing or handed essentially the most pro-housing zoning proposal in metropolis historical past — though we completed each.
However as a result of nobody has fought more durable and constructed extra for the folks of our metropolis than we’ve.
