City, State and Congressional representatives demand Governor Hochul collect affordable housing damages

Stating that "our community has grown severely distrustful of this project," ten Brooklyn elected officials sent a June 18 letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Empire State Development President Hope Knight demanding that ESD move to collect liquidated damages from Atlantic Yards developoer Greenland USA for failure to meet a May 2025 deadline to complete the project's affordable housiing.
 
U.S. Representatives Daniel S. Goldman, Yvette D. Clarke, and Nydia Velázquez; State Senator Jabari Brisport; Assembly Members Robert Carroll, Jo Anne Simon and Phara Souffrant Forrest; Borough President Antonio Reynoso; and City Council Members Crystal Hudson and Shahana Hanif all signed the letter, which noted that the funds due "can go toward immediate use to address the affordable housing shortage Greenland has exacerbated by failing to construct the required 876 missing units by deepening the affordability of new buildings on city-owned land in the nearby, recently-rezoned Atlantic Avenue corridor."