While construction may begin within the next several years on the state’s massive plan to redevelop the Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility campus, new documents show it may be decades until the project is completed.
Read MoreLocal Eastern Queens electeds and community members criticized the Adams administration on Monday for considering additional beds for the migrant shelter located near the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
Read MoreOfficials on Wednesday released an ambitious plan to develop over 50 acres of the decrepit and long-abandoned Creedmoor campus in Eastern Queens with over 2,000 housing units, public spaces and various other amenities.
Read MoreAs the state continues to draw up a plan for what to do with more than 50-acres of land at the mostly-abandoned Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility in Queens, and a group of locals are calling for the future development to include 100 percent affordable housing.
Read MoreCreedmoor shelter migrants share their experiences so far, from conditions to work authorization.
Read More13 protestors including former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa were arrested while protesting the Creedmoor migrant tent shelter in Queens Village on Wednesday night.
Read MoreThe migrant tent shelter at Creedmoor opened its doors to migrants on Tuesday, one day ahead of schedule, welcoming in the first 100 or so asylum seekers amid local pushback on the facility.
Read MoreA chaotic scene in Eastern Queens broke out after a small group of Queens residents urging a more welcoming attitude toward asylum seekers clashed with a much larger group of people protesting an upcoming 1,000-bed tent shelter for migrants at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Campus.
Read MoreThe area near Creedmoor Psychiatric Center became the site of two rallies on Thursday, as locals and elected officials protested the city’s plan to bring a massive tent shelter for asylum seekers to the long-abandoned campus.
Read MoreDespite pushback from a number of Eastern Queens officials, the city says it is moving forward with a plan to bring a 1,000-bed shelter for adult male asylum seekers to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus in the coming months.
Read MoreDespite another day of local pushback from Queens officials over the city's plan to bring migrant shelters to two sites in the borough, the mayor says all options to house asylum seekers arriving to the city are “still on the table.”
Read MoreOff the side of a highway on Monday evening, protesters and local elected officials gathered to oppose plans to construct a tent shelter for asylum seekers at the Aqueduct Racetrack in South Queens. However, just before the demonstration was set to begin, officials learned that the plan had been scrapped.
Read MoreThe redevelopment of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus is still in its infancy and it will be years before shovels go in the ground. However, pushback over potential plans to bring affordable housing to the 55-acre campus has already begun.
The state’s effort to develop the site of the former Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus is now behind schedule.
Read MoreThe infamous Creedmoor campus has been mostly abandoned for decades. Now, state and local officials are beginning to wonder – what will it become in the future?
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