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Eric Adams: “Flushing Airport, it was dormant since 1984. We are building…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Mayor Eric Adams Delivers Signature Address at Manhattan Institute on Quality of Life Vision

Published | Video Starts at 27:21

New soccer stadium, new school, new green spaces. What we have done in the Bronx and the Fordham south project, these places have been laid dormant for years. Flushing Airport, it was dormant since 1984. We are building thousands of units of housing there. We're looking at every agency to look at their available spaces because government has been holding on to spaces without thinking about housing. (27:21–27:30)

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