Personally im happy they're not coming, it wouldn't have just hurt the lower and middle class in LIC, the cost of living increases would have been felt in surrounding areas, Astoria, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson heights, Elmhurst, maspeth, middle village, the cost of living in northwestern Queens would go through the roof. My wife and I have one child and both good jobs, we're firmly middle class and it's still a struggle, I can't imagine how some do it.
Another issue I had was the issue with stretching out a infrastructure that's already stretched too thin. We have a crumbling Subway system and traffic is a complete nightmare. What are they doing to allieviate that, they can't even get on the same page to improve and fix the Subway. Yet they want people off the road an take a broken Mass transit system. Now you're going to send 25k into an already highly congested area. My wife has worked in LIC for 4-5 years now and her average commute has increased about 10-15 minutes during this time.
Personally I feel cuomo and deblasio did a horrible job trying to sell this on NY'ers. I suppose the game plan was short term sacrifice for long term gain, that the taxes generated from 25k high paying jobs more than makes up for the 3 billion in subsidies. If that's the case they needed to work harder on selling this and selling this to the people that would be hurt the most. But there sales line was basically this is good for the city because we said so. I know this deal would have helped a lot of people, small businesses over there were looking forward to an extra 25k people in the area that made good money. It just feels like it hurt more people than it would help. And if it would help more than hurt they did a horrible job on selling that to us.
