The city has posted a few renderings of its big plan for Hunters Point South in Long Island City. It would include up to 6,650 units of housing, with the definition of "affordable" in the plan being the subject of dispute. There's a huge Environmental Impact Statement out (available on the New York Economic Development Corp.'s website) and a large number of meetings coming about the plan, that have just started.
· Hunters Point South [NYCEDC]
· LIC Holds First Hearing on Hunter's Point South [Queens Chronicle]
If anyone can handle more debate about another planned New York City megaproject, the huge (and, yes, very controversial) Hunters Point South (aka Queens West South) development has taken a small step forward. Broker/blogger Andrew Fine has gotten hold of a new "scoping" document for the project, which would rise on a Long Island City wasteland, and finds that it has gained more than an extra acre of parkland but has also gone from 6,500 to 6,650 units of housing (the definition of "affordable" in the plan has been the subject of bitter dispute). A school has also grown significantly. Fine writes that "it seems as if none" of the concerns raised by residents and others have been taken into consideration and that the plan "has simply gone from bad to even worse" by adding another building's worth of housing and expanding the school.
· Hunters Point South Plan Grows Denser, Yet Finds An Extra Acre Of Park [A Fine Blog]
· More Hating on Hunters Point South [Curbed]
· Hunters Point South Plan Called 'Archie Bunker Vision' [Curbed]
When last we left QueensWest South—the undeveloped chunk of waterfront Long Island City land that went from proposed Olympic Village to proposed middle-income housing complex—the city was backing off the 100% affordable plan, and the Real Estate Board of New York was trying to take the whole operation over. Broker-blogger Andrew Fine attended the NYC Economic Development Corporation's update meeting on the plan last night, and first off, the headline: the whole shebang has been renamed Hunters Point South. Now, to the real nitty-gritty...
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When last we left QueensWest South—the undeveloped chunk of waterfront Long Island City land that went from proposed 
