Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP) have initiated the public review process for the OneLIC Neighborhood Plan, a rezoning proposal for Long Island City, Queens. Developed after nearly two years of community engagement, the plan aims to deliver 14,700 new homes, including 4,000 income-restricted units, along with 3.5 million square feet of commercial and industrial space. The fifth neighborhood plan under the Adams administration, OneLIC is the most expansive housing proposal from City Hall in over two decades and is anticipated to create approximately 14,400 jobs.
Sketch of OneLIC Neighborhood Plan, via nyc.gov
OneLIC spans from the East River to Crescent Street and Queens Plaza North to 47th Avenue, with an additional stretch reaching 39th Avenue between 21st and 23rd Streets. The plan seeks to modernize outdated zoning, introduce Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) requirements for the first time in the neighborhood, and make city-owned sites available for deeply affordable housing. Among those sites is 44-59 45th Avenue, where 320 income-restricted homes are planned.
Sketch of OneLIC Neighborhood Plan, via nyc.gov
The plan also calls for updates to the Waterfront Access Plan and coordination with property owners to connect and enhance public waterfront spaces from Gantry Plaza State Park to Queensbridge Park. Additional elements include street-level activity zones, new green spaces, and infrastructure upgrades. The NYC Economic Development Corporation is also exploring community-oriented redevelopment options for 44-36 Vernon Boulevard.
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Looks like the ideal location for a tech hub where thousands of high paying jobs could be located along with new housing and maybe even a high school for future coders.
Not likely, since you know AI and what not.
Or maybe even housing, which is what the city actually needs.
They need to also rezone the area between Sunnyside and LIC via Queens blvd.
Needs more green space on the waterfront.
Years ago, LIC was so industrial, I learned to drive there evenings and weekends on absolutely deserted streets.
That’s exactly what’s happening. Connected waterfront greenspaces. Hopefully this will sail through public review and at least some good will come from this crooked mayor.
TWO YEARS of community engagement to get the same cookie-cutter vision as any and all new developments in the city?? This is why housing is so unaffordable right here.
This is much better than that Amazon nonsense.
Great, hope they can add a footbridge between gantry bay park and the Greenpoint waterfront. Would be awesome to have waterside park path for biking and jogging all the way from Queensboro to Williamsburg bridges some day.
Hard to do with the navigable channel there. Would need to reach quite the elevation to make it happen. Residents of the now built towers will resist it too.
This is amazing, its like downtown queens