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14 SEPTEMBER 12, 2025
Mayor Adams Celebrates Approval Of

Onelic Neighborhood Plan To Create Nearly

15,000 New Homes And Over 14,000 Jobs

Plan Would Create Approximately 4,300 Permanently Affordable Homes; Plan Includes

Public Realm Improvements, Including Accessible, Continuous Waterfront

OneLIC Neighborhood Plan will update outdated zoning and expand access to the waterfront. Queensbridge Park, creating a consistent public space for the neighborhood. Images Credit: DCP.

OUR BUREAU artists and entrepreneurs, Long Island City has led Street to 23rd Street.
many lives over the years. Our ‘OneLIC Plan’ will The OneLIC plan is one of five ambitious
NEW YORK, NY
help Long Island City write the next great chap- neighborhood plans the Adams administration is
ew York City Mayor Eric Adams and New ter in its history, making sure families can find an advancing to deliver nearly 50,000 homes over the
York City Department of City Planning affordable place, businesses can find a good place next 15 years to New York City neighborhoods. In
N(DCP) Director and City Planning Com- to grow, and everyone can access and enjoy the addition to the Bronx-Metro North Station Area
mission (CPC) Chair Dan Garodnick have cel- waterfront throughout the neighborhood,” said Plan, the Midtown South plan, and the Atlantic
ebrated the CPC’s vote in favor of the OneLIC Mayor Adams. “Whether its advancing five ambi- Avenue Mixed-Use Plan — all of which have been
Neighborhood Plan, an ambitious proposal to de- tious neighborhood plans like this one, passing the passed by the New York City Council — as well
liver tens of thousands of homes and jobs to Long first citywide rezoning in six decades, or shattering as the OneLIC plan, the Adams administration is
Island City, Queens. This initiative would revamp affordable housing records year after year, our ad- also advancing a neighborhood plan in Jamaica.
local zoning and undertake other initiatives to cre- ministration is using every tool we’ve got to create Once passed, the Adams administration’s rezon-
ate nearly 14,700 new homes. the homes New Yorkers need and make sure our ing efforts to date are expected to create nearly
The plan would also map Mandatory Inclu- city is the best place to raise a family.” 130,000 new homes, more new housing than the
sionary Housing (MIH) — which requires new “The Adams administration’s OneLIC Neigh- previous two mayoral administrations’ rezoning
developments to include permanently affordable borhood Plan is the largest residential rezoning efforts combined.
housing — on a wide scale in the neighborhood that this city has pursued,” said Deputy Mayor Today, approximately 46 percent of renters in
for the first time, making sure that around 4,300 of for Housing, Economic Development, and Work- the neighborhood spend more than 30 percent of
those homes are permanently affordable. force Adolfo Carrión, Jr. “Today’s action from the their income on rent, and current zoning does not
The plan would also boost commercial and in- Planning Commission meets the urgency of our require permanently-affordable, income-restrict-
dustrial space in the area — creating 14,400 new housing crisis — not just with 14,700 new homes ed homes. The OneLIC plan would allow for the
jobs and generating new economic opportunities but also with a wide array of neighborhood in- creation of 14,7000 new homes across the neigh-
for residents, workers, and business owners alike. vestments. I look forward to working with Coun- borhood and apply MIH to Long Island City for
Along with four additional neighborhood plans cilmember Won and other stakeholders to ensure the first time.
and “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” — the that this historic plan enriches the lives of New By requiring new developments in Long
first citywide rezoning in 60 years — the OneLIC Yorkers — both current and future — who call Island City to include permanently affordable
Neighborhood Plan is a key part of the Adams ad- Long Island City Home.” housing, the plan is expected to produce roughly
ministration’s work that has already created, pre- The plan’s boundaries stretch from the East 4,300 income-restricted homes, enough to house
served, or planned over 426,000 homes for New River waterfront to Crescent Street and Queens roughly 10,000 New Yorkers. This would be the
Yorkers. Plaza North to 47th Avenue, with one segment most amount of housing generated by a neighbor-
“From a thriving industrial hub to a home for reaching further up to 39th Avenue between 21st hood-specific rezoning in at least 25 years.

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