CB2 hearing on Hunters Point South, tomorrow morning, Borough Hall
Hunters Point South pre-posthumous, Long Island City, 2008
It’s busy season these days for both developers & activists, especially in LIC. While the battle over the OCA/CUNY development plan continues, another controversial project a little further downstream, hits the boardroom again…Hunters Point South. Promise Land or Promissory Note Land?
liQcity was informed by CB2 of a Hunters Point South hearing tomorrow morning 10am at Queens Borough Hall. That’s all the info we got - if you know more, feel free to post it.
CB2 votes on Hunters Point South [Queens Gazette]
Beginning of the Beginning - A glimpse at Hunters Point South [liQcity]
Borough Hall location [Google maps]
It has nothing to do with Queens West.
I’m not sure you can say so confidently that they have nothing to do with each other. The two sites will be very much integrated, and both emerged from a similar planning process. It will be hard for the casual observer to tell the two sites apart when they’re done.
can’t wait
Except that they’ll look different and were built from different government agencies. And financed differently.
well they should be integrated. that whole area is going to be a transportion and logistical nightmare. There aren’t enough services here even for the current scattered population. imagine when that level of density arrives. scary. you old time LIC’ers think it’s bad now?… oh just wait. the worst is yet to come.
but thankfully it’s gov’t sponsored so it’ll happen nice and slow.
#6 what’s with the doom and gloom. People said the same thing 10 years ago and look where we are now. If you build it they will come.
7, perhaps. But I don’t think you can be so hopeful about enhanced mass transit service, which HP can really use to keep the area from drowning in cars. Apart from a vague promise to create a bus loop to the Newtown Creek area as part of HPS, no mass transit improvements are being proposed in HP.
Oh, stop.
This area will continue to grow and be a great place to live without all the ‘doom-and-gloom’ drowning-in-cars posts. Barely anyone in the greater NYC area even owns a car, much less in the HP area.
Any neighborhood near a subway stop near Manhattan will have parking problems during the week. It’s the weekends that really matter and there’s a decent amount of parking then. Not great, but decent.
Will it get worst? Yes, but so will Astoria, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. And Jersey City and Hoboken.
These areas are all becoming ‘part’ of NYC, whether people want to realize this or not.
#9 Thank goodness that higher density and overcrowding has you for a cheer leader. I think your idea is wonderful. If something sucks just roll over and get used to it. No reason to partake in any public process. Just give all the land away and let developers have free rein. The City will be great. Thank you. I finally see the light.
9, The EIS for Hunters Pt South plainly says that there won’t be enough parking for the 15,000 new residents expected to move into that site and highlights how much more traffic will be on local streets. MTA also has a lousy record of being able to respond to increased service demands, and with the shape they are in, I doubt you can expect to see any improvements on the No. 7, just more and more people. Happy talk is for developers and speculators.
Queens West South - These are the projects that the city wants to build, no?