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Democratic Mayoral Candidates Discuss Affordable Housing, Building Codes

NEW YORK CITY-Kicking off the ABO BuildingsNY trade show, Democratic candidates for mayor discussed a number of issues pertinent to the real estate industry. Items up for discussion included affordable housing, building codes, West Side redevelopment and Lower Manhattan.

By Barbara Jarvie | Updated on June 21, 2005

NEW YORK CITY-West Side revitalization, affordable housing, development incentives and building codes were among the subjects on the table during a mayoral forum that featured the Democratic candidates for the November race. The forum kicked off the Associated Builders and Owners of Greater New York’s two-day 2005 BuildingsNY trade show event at the Jacob K. Javits Center.

Expansion of the Javits Center facilities was the first topic up for discussion. “The stadium debacle had a good, unintended consequence. It accentuated the need for development on the West Side and the need to go about it in a rational way,” said former Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer. Manhattan borough president C. Virginia Fields said her office had prepared a West Side vision study a few years ago that called for the expansion of the center, as well as the rezoning of the rail yards so affordable and market-housing projects could be encouraged. “Housing can be placed on the platform site,” she said. City Council speaker Gifford Miller believes that the No. 7 subway expansion efforts should move forward. “Development on the West Side requires mass transit. Nobody arrived here today by subway.” Miller is calling for the MTA to cancel its contract with the New York Jets for the development air rights of the West Side rail yards suggesting that the site be rebid for uses that will complement Lower Manhattan. “Mayor Bloomberg made the stadium a priority over Lower Manhattan.”

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