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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Long Island City community engagement and planning
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Andrew Kimball outlines EDC's efforts to address the growth and development challenges in Long Island City through community engagement and long-term planning.
- Recognition of Long Island City's enormous growth over the last decade
- Acknowledgment of growing pains around housing, open space, community resources, and infrastructure
- EDC working with the Department of City Planning and local council member
- Extensive community engagement process underway
- Aim to guide the long-term vision for one of the city's fastest-growing neighborhoods
- Focus on addressing issues related to rapid development and community needs
Andrew Kimball
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The public private sides of this campus will strategically incorporate workforce development strategies to ensure opportunities for our New York City Students in their careers of the future.
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Moving back across the harbor, Long Island City is a neighborhood that has seen enormous growth over the last decade and has emerged as a vibrant live, work, learn, play community.
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The neighborhood has experienced some growing pains around housing, open space, community resources, infrastructure.
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To address these issues, EDC is working with the Department of City Planning and local council member to conduct an extensive community engagement process which will guide the long term vision for one of the city's fastest growing neighborhoods.
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Cornell Tech, founded in 2012, is a groundbreaking center for technology research and education on Roosevelt Island.
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Its creation was a key strategy to transform New York City into the second largest global tech ecosystem, employing over 360,000 New Yorkers, seven percent of the city's workforce.