Mayor Eric Adams has proposed neighborhood-level rezonings near future Metro-North stations in the East Bronx and along an Atlantic Avenue light manufacturing corridor in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The local councilmembers say they support both plans.
We won’t further needle Councilwoman Julie Won for one month ago smearing Innovation QNS which then promised 2,800 housing units, about 1,100 or 40% of which would be permanently affordable, and half of those reserved for people at very low incomes as “a $2 billion luxury development that has the potential to displace hundreds of local working-class immigrant families.”
Charles Barron called the development in his district a model for others, while Julie Won took credit for “wins” while falling short of the affordable housing threshold she’d called for.
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