Process begins for affordable housing development at Stapleton waterfront site
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
An aerial shot shows the Stapleton waterfront that will be part of the Bay Street Corridor neighborhood plan. (Courtesy of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. City officials began Friday to solicit proposals for an affordable housing development coming to Stapleton’s shorefront.
Proposals to the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) for the 108,000-square-foot, city-owned site, which is part of the 35-acre decommissioned Navy base along Front Street, will need to include plans for 100% affordable housing, and be part of the Bay Street Corridor neighborhood plan.
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The visuals for Shaun Donovan’s campaign kickoff event to be the next mayor of New York City couldn’t have been more New York. It opened with a prayer from the Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, who has been a leader on affordable housing in Brooklyn for more than 40 years. And Donovan spoke on the rooftop of Via Verde, a subsidized housing development in the South Bronx, with the Manhattan skyline rising over his shoulder.
But the endorsements that Donovan rolled out on Tuesday told a different story, of somebody whose closest political connections and strongest support aren’t based in New York, but rather Washington D.C., and other cities around the country that Donovan worked with when he was a cabinet secretary in President Barack Obama’s administration
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City Council approves Special Flushing Waterfront District
Project includes 1,700 residential units, 879 hotel rooms New York / Share via Shortlink
A rendering of the Flushing waterfront and Council member Peter Koo (Rendering via Hill West Architects; New York City Council)
UPDATED, Dec. 10 2020, 4:15 p.m.: The City Council on Thursday voted in favor of a contested $2 billion project planned for Flushing’s waterfront.
The council approved the Special Flushing Waterfront District, a series of zoning changes that pave the way for a 13-building mixed-use development, which will include more than 1,700 residential units and 879 hotel rooms, along with retail and public space.