Here We Go Again: Avella Asks City What’s Going on with College Point Corporate Park?

Queens, NY – After receiving information that the City of New York is secretly planning to build thousands of units of affordable housing in the College Point Corporate Park, State Senator Avella sent a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Request to a number of City Agencies concerning “the future development of College Point Corporate Park for any purpose, including but not limited to studies, reviews, reports or other analysis regarding the development of affordable housing within the Corporate Park from 2013 to the present.”

The list of agencies are; Mayor’s Office, Economic Development Corporation (EDC), Department of Housing and Preservation Development (HPD), Department of Buildings (DOB), Human Resources Administration (HRA), Department of Homeless Services (DHS), and Department of Design and Construction (DDC)

Similar to what is happening at Fort Totten, Senator Avella and the community have growing concerns that there is a serious lack of information coming from the City of New York regarding their plans for the College Point Corporate Park.

“What is the City secretly trying to do to the residents of College Point, Malba, Whitestone, and Mitchell-Linden who are already overburdened by traffic from the College Point Corporate Park. Building thousands of additional housing units here is simply unacceptable. Yet again I am forced to ask the question what is the City hiding?” said Senator Avella.