The former Flushing Airport, decommissioned decades ago, will serve as the foundation of 3,000 new homes, with the project expected to create 1,300 unionized construction jobs, Mayor Adams said this week.
Announced Monday as part of Housing Week, construction at the 80-acre site in College Point, Queens, is expected to begin in 2028. The project will also encompass 60 acres of public green space, an area of land nearby the airfield that has remained vacant since the airport closed in 1984.
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