Hunters Point South rendering, Long Island City

The proposed Hunters Point South affordable housing project is heavily in the news these days. The latest buzz is about the newly released plans for HPS’s 11-acres of waterfront public parkland, which will be constructed in phases, starting at the north end by 50th Avenue and eventually expanding southward to Newtown Creek:

• Designs for the park were presented at a CB2 meeting on November 19th, and were apparently “well received, although several LIC residents voiced concerns about the city’s plans to cover the park’s largest open area with artificial turf, and others pressed planners to include a community boathouse in the plans.”

• The park will include »

Hunters Point South, Long Island City

Last night Community Board 2 held a public hearing at St. Mary’s Church in Long Island City regarding the 49th Ave traffic changes and the Hunters Point South “Open Space” project. A liQcity reader emailed us some quick details from the hearing:

“CB2’s public hearing yesterday started with a discussion about 49th Ave between 5th St & Vernon Blvd. DOT [Dept of Transportation] briefly presented how 49th Ave’s size and location cause it to fit their “one-way” conversion model. And, they did some kind of a ’speed study’ and the average speed they clocked means the street fits their mandate for a speed hump, but they will only do it if CB2 votes for it.

The longer presentation and discussion was about the Hunters Point South open space »

View from the Gantry condos, Hunters Point, Long Island City

The Long Island City linkage this week is a bit slight in volume, but heavy in content. First up is everyone’s favorite affordable housing development plan, Hunters Point South, which won approval from the City Council’s Planning Commission last week along with Willets Point (another controversial Queens development plan). “The Council has about two months to act, and typically takes much of that time for negotiations with the administration.”

With US lawmakers in the throes of deciding how to solve our pesky little financial crisis, Queens is wondering »