Mayor Bloomberg cut the ribbon to Long Island City‘s new waterfront park in Hunter’s Point South this morning. The park, located just next to Gantry Plaza State Park, will be an integral part of the Hunter’s Point South development. The thirty acre mixed-use site will have 5,000 new residential units, 20,000 square feet of retail space and a new school. It’s clear from today’s opening that Mayor Bloomberg is highlighting the affordable housing portion of the plan. The community will have a minimum of 60% affordable units, “making it the largest new affordable housing complex to be built in New York City since the 1970s.”
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