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City Council frames five‑borough land‑use package to deliver roughly 3,242 housing units, including about 1,700 affordable
Summary
Speaker Menon and the Council’s land‑use chair presented a land‑use slate expected to facilitate about 3,242 new housing units citywide, with negotiators reporting roughly 1,700 affordable units and site‑specific concessions including open space and developer maintenance payments.
The New York City Council presented a multi‑borough land‑use package intended to produce about 3,242 new housing units citywide, saying more than half of those units — nearly 1,700 — will be affordable.
Speaker Menon announced the slate and described the council’s negotiating goals, saying the applications span all five boroughs and ‘‘prioritize adding and deepening affordable housing.’’ Council member Kevin Riley, chair of the Council’s land use committee, called the package ‘‘a 5‑borough effort’’ and said it responds to local needs across neighborhoods.
Council member Lincoln Ressler, who presented the Monitor Point application for Greenpoint, said negotiations produced a larger affordable set than earlier proposals and several community benefits. "We nearly tripled the number of total affordable housing that's gonna be built on‑site to 662 units of affordable housing," Ressler said, and he listed developer commitments including open space, funds for park maintenance and transit accessibility improvements.
Other items described by the Council included: a Duet Clinton Park North proposal converting two former dealerships into about 1,064 units (286 affordable under MIH) with developer contributions to DeWitt Clinton Park; 2950 West 24th Street (an 18‑story project of 408 income‑restricted units under an HPD program); 1166 Bedford Avenue (senior residences); and a proposed roughly 801‑seat high school at 25 Wall Street. Speakers repeatedly emphasized local negotiations and community‑driven changes to the proposals.
The transcript records introductions and sponsor remarks for each project but does not include formal roll‑call votes or final outcomes. Council leaders said they were inviting members to support the deals and framed the work as a mix of affordability bargaining and community mitigation. Next procedural steps described in the session were votes to be taken later in the meeting; no vote tallies or final dispositions appear in the provided transcript.
The Council said the land‑use slate is intended to expand affordable housing across neighborhoods while securing site‑specific public benefits and mitigation measures; the projects will proceed through the Council’s land‑use process and subsequent votes recorded in legislative minutes.
