Hunter's Point South: Aerial View of HPS from East River, Courtesy NYCEDC
It's hard to find affordable housing in NYC, but this project may make it slightly easier for middle-income residents of Queens. Now the City has officially acquired the largely vacant land for such a project - Hunter's Point South, to be situated on 30 acres in Long Island City. It was purchased for $100 million from the state.
This proposed mixed-use, middle-income housing development on the waterfront will include up to 5,000 housing units, 60 percent of which will be affordable to middle income families, making it the largest such developement since the 1970s. In addition, the development will include retail space, community/cultural facilities, school space, parking and a new continuous 11 acre waterfront park. To design the park, the City has engaged landscape architecture firm Thomas Balsley Associates, who have brought on Weiss/Manfredi as co-designers and Arup is responsible for site engineering and project management.
“With the acquisition of the site and the start of the design work,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, “we are setting the stage for the largest investment in permanently affordable housing for our police officers, nurses, teachers and public employees and other middle income New Yorkers.”
Comments
HAHA its going to be close to a MILE to get to a subway at the far end…..unless they plan on shuttle buses every 15 minutes 24/7
I guess the jeeniuses are planning on every middle class person paying for a ferry ride to Manhattan. and where do you park a car for any of your out of town guests…
Just wall it off and build section 8 projects…oops the upper crust in Avalon dont want them people walking back home at 2 am.
Richard,
Well from the farthest point it is about 2600 feet to the 7 train and it's a 5 min ride to grand central and 10 min to times square from there. At my typical pace of 4 miles per hour i could walk from the farthest point to the subway in 8 minutes and be at 42 and Lexington in 13 minutes. Yea that would suck. I would get one of the most stunning views of the NY skyline, and be surrounded by everything i would need and be 20 minutes from anything the area lacks. As for parking, i'm sure that these new buildings will have garages just like al the other high rises in the area.
Oh, by the way, have you been to the area in the past 3 years? there are 4-5 new 40 floor buildings here, the waterfront is bigger and better than ever.
I'm sure you and others long for the "good old days" of more industry, muggings, burglary, and deserted streets at night, but times have changed over here. I live 2 blocks from this project and i think it is great.
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