Actually 1100 affordable units.

You really should try reading kiddo.

The data proves you wrong again.
If you can put all your brain cells together you should try this thing called "reading".

https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01055/100977/Local-Effects-of-Large-New-Apartment-Buildings-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/gentrification-wars-studies-doubt-new-yorkers-are-being-pushed-out

Yeah I have actually never heard of council member deference or "community input" being used for something positive. It's always used for NIMBYism to block bike lanes, bus lanes, housing etc.
The housing shortage affects all New Yorkers so why should one woman have the ability to kill home for thousands of people?

When vacancies are low, rents go up. When you build more housing, you get more vacancies, and rents go down.

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No matter how much mental gymnastics you try, you will never get around that fact. Stop being a NIMBY.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/9/27/23373855/affordable-housing-crisis-city-council-eric-adams-throgs-neck

The subsidized units are affordable housing units, not the market-rate units you claim are "gentrifying" the area. Not to mention the developer is building the 25% affordable units on their own dime and providing several other major concessions to the community after receiving feedback.

You're learning the basics of housing in your city, congratulations.

I will now await you moving the goalpost.

/u/Head_Acanthisitta256 you obviously don't know anything about this development. The developer is giving a long list of concessions, it's not getting subsidies. It's the opposite of what you're claiming.

I've noticed NIMBYs never have their facts straight. I wonder why.

The residents of Astoria are seeing massive rent increases because there's a massive shortage of housing in New York City. Being a NIMBY and blocking every new apartment proposal (especially when it contains 40% affordable housing) hurts every renter in New York.

There is zero reason not to build housing there. It's a bunch of parking lots. Building housing there (especially housing that is 40% affordable housing) is not ever going to hurt anyone.

As a Nets fan, no one irks me more than Kyrie Irving.

At first I was entertained but then I just thought “man that’s sad”

This is great news for oil lobbyists, bad news for the planet.

They really need some housing/mixed use on that giant parking lot.

Come on this is a stadium in the city with its own transit stop.

The delays on MTA buses these days are maddening. Yesterday I waited for the M9 and then it was announced it would be delayed by 8 minutes so I waited, then it said another 6 minutes, then another 5, then another 9 minutes and overall it would have been faster to walk there with 2 broken legs than take this broken bus.