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COMMUNITY OP-ED OCTOBER 10, 2025 | The Indian Eye 12
Seasons change, but our priorities remain
the same: Building record amounts of housing
to make New York City more affordable
We’re also thinking creatively about how to use every open space for the
housing New Yorkers need, in Brooklyn and across the entire city
ERIC ADAMS
his autumn, the leaves aren’t
the only things that are falling.
TThe Adams administration has
brought down the cost of child care,
cut taxes for working-class families,
and lowered unemployment for New
Yorkers. Last week, we kicked off
our “Affordable Autumn’ initiative to
highlight our work to save New York-
ers money and roll out new initiatives At just one site in Queens, we’re turning the abandoned Flushing Airport into 3,000 new homes and 60 acres of open space (File photo)
to make New York City more afford-
able — which starts with building the
homes New Yorkers need and deserve. in Brooklyn and across the entire over 1,000 new homes. And in the who will have a place to build their
We’re advancing bold, ambi- city. Where past administration saw Bronx, we’re building a whole new lives, to make memories, to plant
tious solutions to our city’s housing vacant lots and old office buildings, library at the Grand Concourse and roots in a community — and it is the
crisis. Last Monday, New York took ours saw an opportunity for housing adding homes alongside it. Adams administration who are fight-
a massive step towards an afford- equality. Last year, we issued Exec- Just last week, we added three ing for them.
able future for our residents when utive Order 43, requiring every city new sites to that growing list. In I’ve said this before, but I’ll say
the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Task agency to review their properties and Bensonhurst, we are redeveloping it again: we are the most pro-hous-
Force approved a $3.5 billion vision find places where we could build new the New Utrecht Library — creat- ing administration in city history.
plan for the future of Red Hook. Not housing — because you can’t solve a ing a new, state-of-the-art branch, Not just because we invested record
only will this project deliver 6,000 housing crisis when city government and adding 100 percent affordable amounts of money into new hous-
housing units on the waterfront — is holding onto underutilized land. housing on the city-owned parking ing or because we created a record
with 2,400 of them being perma- Now that it has been a little over lot next door. In Williamsburg, we’re number of new homes — although
nently affordable — but it will turn a year, we are ready to report the turning one of the area’s last un- we are doing both of those things;
a crumbling marine terminal into a results of our work. Thanks to our derutilized waterfront sites into 900 not just because we connected a re-
modern maritime port while creat- executive order, we have already ad- new homes with vibrant open space cord number of New Yorkers to af-
ing tens of thousands of good-paying vanced nearly 10,000 homes across along the river. And in East Harlem, fordable housing or passed the most
jobs. This initiative isn’t just for the 11 different city-owned sites. At just we’re turning a city-owned parking pro-housing zoning proposal in city
New Yorkers of today — we’re turn- one site in Queens, we’re turning lot next to a public hospital into 800 history — although we accomplished
ing our waterfront into a ‘Harbor of the abandoned Flushing Airport new homes. both. But because no one has fought
the Future’ and unlocking opportu- into 3,000 new homes and 60 acres When you put all of our work harder and built more for the people
nity for generations to come. of open space. At another site in together — the homes we’ve created, of our city than we have.
We’re also thinking creatively Manhattan, just steps from City Hall, preserved, and planned — it adds
about how to use every open space we’re tearing down a deteriorating up to over 426,800 homes to date. Eric Adams is the Mayor of
for the housing New Yorkers need, city office building and turning it into That’s almost half a million families New York City, NY
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