NYC Council approves massive Queens housing plan after developer concessions

We are supported by our readers. Consider donating to fund the local reporting you rely on. [View in Browser]( Tuesday November 22, 2022 [Donate now]( ADVERTISEMENT [NYC Council approves massive Queens housing plan after developer concessions]( [A rendering of a building that would go up in Astoria as part of the Innovation QNS project. The New York City Council is expected to approve the $2 billion housing development project.]( [The estimated $2 billion development would essentially create a new neighborhood in what supporters say is an underutilized industrial section of Queens.]( ADVERTISEMENT More Stories From Today [Surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows the suspect being accused of hurling bricks at the window of VERS, a gay bar on 9th Avenue.]( [Hell's Kitchen man arrested after attacks on Manhattan gay bar]( [Police say the suspect threw a brick at the window of VERS, a gay bar on 9th Avenue, on three separate occasions since last Sunday.]( [Holiday decorations at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan]( [Busy stretch of NYC's 5th Avenue to go car-free on 3 Sundays as holiday crowds return]( [The traffic changes come as city officials brace for the largest holiday crowds in Midtown since the pandemic hit.]( [Heavy traffic moves along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.]( [Your 2022 guide to NYC travel this Thanksgiving]( [New York is expected to shatter Thanksgiving holiday travel records this year, so Gothamist spoke with Gridlock Sam for tips and tricks of the road.]( [A protestor at a public school in Queens voices opposition to New York City's plan to reduce school funding for next school year.]( [Court rules budget cuts to NYC public schools can remain in place]( [The cuts, amounting to roughly $375 million, have already had an impact on public school students and teachers.]( [A steel drum in packaging.]( [Now you can own Rudy Giuliani’s tropical steel drum (and other mayoral goodies)]( [Among the items up for grabs are a basketball signed by the 1999 Knicks, a paperweight from Diana Ross and other gifts to mayors of the past.]( [Rep. Carolyn Maloney attends the 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art on September 13, 2021.]( [Rep. Carolyn Maloney faces investigation into Met Gala tickets]( [The House Ethics Committee will investigate whether Maloney illegally solicited Met Gala tickets in 2016.]( [Adams speaks to reporters Tuesday during a press conference on domestic violence.]( [NYC Mayor Eric Adams doubles down on cryptocurrency despite industry implosion]( [Despite the collapse of one of the biggest crypto companies, the mayor on Tuesday said crypto is an industry “we must embrace.”]( [Throgs Neck Bridge connects the Bronx and Queens, running over where the East River meets the Long Island Sound, August 11, 2003]( [Western parts of Long Island Sound fail water quality tests but show signs of hope]( [In its new report card, the environmentalist group Save the Sound found too much nitrogen and not enough oxygen in the waters of the Western Narrows.]( [A close up of a turkey on a Thanksgiving table]( [Price of Thanksgiving dinner soars 26%, NY Farm Bureau finds]( [It's the biggest year-over-year hike in three decades.]( [Gov. Kathy Hochul]( [After Colorado Springs mass shooting, NY Gov. Hochul signs hate crime bills]( [Anyone convicted of a hate crime will have to take training aimed at preventing future acts.]( [Mayor Eric Adams takes a tour of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on November 17. Adams is now ordering most city agencies to eliminate half of its vacant civilian positions as a budget-saving measure.]( [Citing looming budget gap, NYC cuts civilian vacant positions by half]( [The cuts will mean the city will not fill roughly 4,700 vacancies, according to City Hall estimates. It will not affect teachers nor uniformed vacancies in departments like police and fire.]( [Versions of the 'Temp Workers Bill of Rights' passed the New Jersey Legislature twice before, but the latest effort has stalled out amid lobbying by staff agencies.]( [Bill to protect NJ temp workers' rights gets pulled again]( [Staffing agencies have been lobbying against the bill, which they say would raise expenses and cost people their jobs.]( ADVERTISEMENT [Support Us]( Follow Gothamist on [Gothamist on Facebook]( [Gothamist on Twitter]( NYPR Network [WNYC]( [Gothamist]( [WNYC Studios]( [NJPR]( [WQXR]( [New Sounds]( Copyright © New York Public Radio, 160 Varick St., New York, NY 10013. All rights reserved. [Terms of Use]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from this list.