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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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