NYC got a clue on all those empty buildings.
Hopefully most of the proposed housing goes to true working class residents.
August 17, 2023 12:09 PM
Adams wants to rezone 42 Midtown blocks, boost housing citywide
NICK GARBER
City Hall revealed details about its plan to convert vacant Manhattan buildings into apartments.
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Mayor Eric Adams announced new housing initiatives in a mostly-vacant Midtown office building, including details about a planned rezoning of Midtown South (map inset).
The city will rezone more than 40 blocks in the Garment District, NoMad and Chelsea and launch an effort to rewrite the city’s zoning code in the coming months in hopes of chipping away at New York City’s desperate housing
shortage, Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday.
The efforts center largely on converting vacant Manhattan office buildings into housing, which City Hall says could produce as many as 20,000 new homes for 40,000 people over the next decade.
Adams wants to rezone NYC’s Garment District for residential use to ease housing crisis
Mayor Eric Adams is looking at rezoning barely-used manufacturing centers in the Garment District and Chelsea for residential use to help ease the Big Apple’s housing crisis.
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