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The Bronx is Buying a Ticket to the

Future with Historic Metro-North Plan

Station Area Plan, a groundbreaking, once-in-a-generation opportunity that will create nearly 7,000

new homes, including permanently income-restricted affordable housing, and 10,000 permanent jobs

The Bronx Metro North Station Plan is one of several robust planning efforts that we have proposed to create more housing
and jobs across all five boroughs (File/Agency photo)

once-in-a-generation opportunity ning efforts that we have proposed out the security of housing. Growing
that will create nearly 7,000 new to create more housing and jobs up on the edge of homelessness, my
homes, including permanently in- across all five boroughs. The re- siblings and I had to take trash bags
come-restricted affordable housing, maining planning efforts and invest- full of clothes to school because we
and 10,000 permanent jobs in the ments — including Central Brook- couldn’t be sure where we would
Bronx. Along with the four-brand lyn, Midtown South, Staten Island sleep some nights.
new Metro-North train stations set North Shore, Long Island City, and I also know what happens when
up in 2027, this is a game changer Jamaica — will deliver nearly 50,000 New Yorkers get the key to an af-
for the working people, families, im- housing units over the next 15 years fordable home. I have seen the
migrants and young people who live across the five boroughs. smiles and relief when they finally
ERIC ADAMS in the East Bronx. But we are not stopping there. have a stable, safe place to build
The Bronx Metro-North Area Our “City of Yes for Housing their dreams.
ith New York City’s rental Plan will complement these new Opportunity” plan, which does away That is why, from day one, this
vacancy rate at a historic homes and jobs with hundreds of with outdated zoning rules, aims to administration has been committed
Wlow of just 1.4 percent and millions of dollars of investments in produce over 108,000 new homes to making this city more affordable
half of all New Yorkers paying more public amenities and infrastructure. over 15 years. We are saying “yes” to and more livable for all New York-
than 30 percent of their income on From enhanced pedestrian safety new homes in our backyards, “yes” ers. Every affordable house we build
rent, the Bronx is leading the charge and transportation access to newly on our blocks, and “yes” to a little means another New York story con-
by saying ‘yes’ to more housing and renovated public parks and open more housing in every neighborhood. tinues. Every new home in our city
buying a ticket to the future! spaces, this plan is fundamentally We are also investing in affordable means more jobs, lower rents, a
Earlier this month, the City transforming the East Bronx neigh- housing at record levels, with more stronger economy, and a better fu-
Council approved our adminis- borhoods for decades to come. than $26 billion being invested over ture for all New Yorkers.
tration’s Bronx Metro-North Sta- The Bronx Metro North Station the current 10-year plan. Eric Adams is the Mayor of
tion Area Plan, a groundbreaking, Plan is one of several robust plan- I know what it is like to live with- New York City, NY

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