The NYC Comptroller -- William Thompson -- came to LIC this past week to suggest all kinds of "improvements" that strike LICNYC as unpleasant: more affordable housing and more power plants. Sounds exciting. Seems fashionable these days to ask for cheap housing to be built in LIC...when all the rest of Queens is already full of it. More.

The affordable housing is already in the works. Bloomberg announced a plan with the Port Authority to build 5,000 units on this site, which was once part of the Olympic bid plan's Olympic Village.

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