Just this week, city officials advanced two plans that call for a massive amount of new housing in the borough. One is ...

The vote advanced the second half of the Willets Point plan, which would bring a 25,000-seat soccer arena to the long underdeveloped corner of Queens, plus 1,400 affordable apartments, a 250-room ...

Metro Willets Point Development will doom nearly 100 cats in grimy ‘Shea Stadium strays’ colony: ‘Nowhere to go but to their death’ By Katherine Donlevy Published Sep. 8, 2024, 12:17 p.m. ET ...

Stray cats have run amok in Willets Point for nearly 100 years and even carved out shelter in Shea Stadium when it was erected in 1964 — with one famously scampering across the Cubs dugout ...

New York City recently shared its plan for the next phase of its Willets Point, Queens, redevelopment project. A highlight of the plan is a 25,000-seat soccer stadium for the New York City ...

Dubbed the “Valley of Ashes” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the Willets Point peninsula was primed for a major transformation. Over the last century, the area has been polluted by ...

The Willets Point transformation is a public-private partnership between the city government and co-developers Related Companies and Sterling Equities, which are hoping to eventually bring a ...

Arturo Olaya, 64, knows all about New York City’s redevelopment dreams for Willets Point. An auto upholsterer who immigrated to Queens when he was 23, he has worked within the area’s steel ...

The 25,000 seat stadium will be built across the street from Citi Field at Willets Point. An early 👀 at New York City’s planned first-ever soccer-specific stadium 🏟 #DaleNewYork ...

While the city says 260 shops on Willets Point employ more than 1,700 workers, it has not looked at the wages and quality of these jobs. A survey by the Urban Justice Center found half of the Willets ...

The Willets Point plan demonstrates a smart, pragmatic approach to urban planning, economic development and stadium deals that cities across the country can look to as a blueprint.