NY City Working on Land Supply

Faced with a shrinking inventory of vacant land, NY City's Bloomberg administration next month will unveil its goals for accommodating the city’s growing population over the next 25 years and the municipal services that nine million or more New Yorkers will require.

Chief among the priorities of the mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board, led by Daniel L. Doctoroff, the deputy mayor for economic development, is how to reclaim as many as 1,700 acres of polluted land — brownfields and other former industrial parcels — and transform them into environmentally sound sites for schools, apartments and parks.

There is no development unless there is land for it to take place upon.

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