Don't mean to pick on Jeremy here bc I really appreciate the productive engagement, but I do wanna push back on this line of logic. Though LIC did add a lot of housing, it was one of vanishingly few places in the NY region that did: we consistently rank _very_ low in hsng prod'n 
https://twitter.com/JeremyR1992/status/1379550089203474433
New supply absolutely will not solve all housing-related crises -- renter protections and housing subsidies are critical part of the toolkit here -- we should be careful in making our analysis here.
Per research like this upjohn.org/research-highl…, it seems likely Qns's gentrification and displacement crises would have been even worse had it not been for LIC to absorb high-earners looking for housing in the region.
(And just to be clear: I think opposing new housing on a parking lot literal feet away from the nation's third largest job cluster for height reasons is, uh, questionable. If we're really concerned about climate, that 30% of ppl in this tract *walk* to work is important!)
There really aren't that many places in the US where you can build a structure within half a mile of 162,000 jobs on a _parking lot_. The logic of this site cannot be overstated; even just for climate reasons we should be advocating that this structure be taller.
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