A closer look at Hunters Point South
27 Feb
In case you were curious, here are a few looks at what the medium-income housing, Hunters Point South, will look like when it’s all said and done:
The zoning documents indicate that the structure will be a 37 story residential building of 627,960 square feet (a sliver of that at 13,766 square feet will be commercial). There will be 619 (down from 635 originally) apartments and 223 (down from 250 originally) enclosed parking spaces.
via queensnyc.com
Great…more poor people in LIC.
Yup, and all middle to low income. Thanks Mayor Bloomberg!
What a waste of prime real estate. Terrible idea. LIC has so much going for it, why put that at risk? I really hope this low/middle income nonsense stops before the other buildings are constructed.
Hopefully the next hurricane solves this problem. Why are they even building there? Should be wetlands.
What a waste of real estate space. Has someone considered how this will change this wonderful up and coming neighborhood? What will happen when the next storm hits? Can the 7 handle all these people?
Of course you all are assuming that this is going to be the projects. god forbid people be allowed to live in nyc who might be single or single-income families and work at jobs that don’t pay at least six figures, like a public school teacher or a police officer or someone who works in the non-profit sector (gasp! what riffraff!).
Sure they can live in NYC E, but not on prime waterfront land a block and a half away from a train station that’s one stop out of Manhattan.
But it in Bushwick or East New York or East Williamsburg.
Yeah, screw Cops & Teachers! What have they ever done for the city!
This is rich. You’re just mad that Romney didn’t win. Get over it Anon. If that’s your real name.
I for one am looking forward to having some more “real” people in this neighborhood instead of a bunch of whiny entitled pussies. God, you people don’t know how ridiculous you all sound.
If there really were a God, he’d throw another storm our way before HPS is built and flush you and all your crapping dogs, nannies and attitudes into the Newtown Creek. Grab onto a floating Audi and maybe you’ll be lucky and drift back to the East Side. Good riddance!
If there was a God who judged us, we’d all be seen as whiners.
Hypocracy and self-righteousness is a good indicator of self-interest.
If there really were a God, he would love to See you Right Now!!!!
Go F Yourselves Again,
Don’t tell God what or what not to do.
I hesitate to compare HPS to the housing projects throughout the city because some of the idiots here commenting obviously think they are the same thing.
They probably also think that there shouldn’t be housing developments in West Chelsea, Lower East Side and countless other areas that qualify as “prime real estate.” And frankly, people whose socioeconomic views are so backwards don’t deserve to live in this city.
The truth is that in 10 years there will be 9 million people living in this city. The question is not only where will they live, but where can they afford to live? The answer is HPS in LIC and I’ll be happy to welcome them to my neighborhood.
YES!
And the other truth is there will be greater inequality then there is today.
Government determining who can and can’t live in a particular location is disgusting. The city should have zoned these locations properly and then let the market and private development determine what is built and who lives there. Why should anyone get a government directed free ride to live in a prime location? Awful.
I’m currently a renter in LIC and I would love the opportunity to buy affordable housing in this neighborhood. As a social worker, this project would be the only way I could afford to do this.
anon, spare us the hyperventilating. The amount of government giveaways to the rich in the form of preferential treatment of income and other generous deductions and entitlements dwarf by far any benefits that accrue to the rest of us. Let’s build the buildings and help out some regular people for a change.
What excess tax breaks for the rich?? High income earners pay by far the bulk of taxes in this country.
I would love to pick a prime neighborhood to live in, but I can’t afford to live anywhere I want. But I don’t go demanding that the government give me a free ride to live any place I please.
I’m surprised you’re taking up the rich man’s burden. Usually they have people to do that for them.
Anyway, tax breaks for the rich. You know, like buy this million dollar apartment at the View or Murano or L-Haus any freaking development in LIC and we’ll forget about those pesky property taxes for ten sweet years.
I don’t have a problem with abatements, but it skews toward those who are already well off.
Abatements do not benefit buyers. The lower taxes are incorporated into higher prices. The developer is the one who benefits. Theoretically it helps encourage construction by raising the IRR on a building.
Developers can try to price it in. Still need to find a buyer.
Anyway, these developers. They’re not rich?
Sounds like the city’s giving money to rich people to me.
Also, the money the rich earn to buy their feathered nests is likely taxed at nominal rates since most of their income is capital gains, dividends or carried interests (if it isn’t parked offshore somewhere).
So until they are paying regular income rates like the rest of us wage-earning saps, they’ll be no boo-hooing on my part for the rich. Let HPS rip!
What about the wage earning saps in the middle, that don’t qualify for HPS, can’t quite buy at the View, and are getting priced out of the rentals with the 5-10% increases each year? I guess we’ll go brave it out in Court Square until that becomes the next neighborhood everyone wants in on.
Just as many rich-haters as poor-haters, all with distorted viewpoints of the other. Truth be told, all comments are biased to tell the story the way you want it to be heard.