During Mayor Bloomberg’s twelve years in office, his administration rezoned nearly 40 percent of the city. While the most prominent rezonings, in Manhattan and western Brooklyn and Queens, dramatically increased allowed densities, in the outer…
It’s not every day that you come across development sites in the outer boroughs that can take nearly a million square feet of development, nevermind in eastern Queens. But YIMBY’s come across two enormous pieces…
In Jamaica, once Queens’s pre-eminent downtown, the highest demand for housing is just north and east of downtown Jamaica. Rezonings in the 2000s failed to recognize this, instead downzoning these residential neighborhoods on the periphery…
After years of languishing during and after the recession, new development in downtown Jamaica is finally heating up, with a number of new market-rate projects on the way. YIMBY has already covered two apartment buildings…
In the Richmond Hill section of Queens, just to the east of downtown Jamaica, Maddd Equities is building a three-story commercial building at 115-02 Jamaica Avenue, designed by Aufgang Architects and scheduled to be completed later…
