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It’s Thursday in New York City, where the excitement for a $21 billion plan to build 12,000 housing units at Sunnyside Yard has gone quiet, according to Queens leaders.
It seemed like a watershed moment when Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with President Donald Trump in February in the White House and posed with a mock Daily News front page with the headline “Trump to City: Let’s Build.” A Mamdani aide said at the time that Queens-born Trump was particularly interested in the long-stalled Sunnyside Yard development.
But what's followed in the months since has not inspired confidence, Queens leaders said. The mayor's office has reported scant progress, and the White House has said little publicly to match City Hall’s assessment that the president was interested in the idea.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York state will kick in $7.25 million to help provide immigration lawyers to some 1,400 unaccompanied migrant children across the state.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked a debate among New York City progressives about liberal excess.
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“The project is not shovel ready, no major stakeholders have been engaged, and absolutely no one has identified the $21 billion needed just to build the platform over the tracks.”
- City Councilmember Julie Won, who represents the area where Sunnyside Yard is,
ON THE PROJECT.
With the first store set to open late next year, Gothamist spoke to food experts and reviewed the city’s request for proposals to understand how this idea could work — and where it could go wrong.
Police say a 15-year-old boy was found dead in a Kingsbridge Heights, Bronx apartment with a gunshot wound to his neck Wednesday. The NYPD said officers also found a 13-year-old boy grazed by a bullet at the apartment.
Bruce Blakeman is leaning on Donald Trump and his signature issues as he tries to energize upstate Republicans about his run against Gov. Kathy Hochul.
An increase in the number — and strength — of storms this year has led to a sharp spike in the number of damaged or fallen trees that need to be removed, according to the city Parks Department.
