Adi Talwar
A construction site is on the south corner of 41st Avenue and 21st Street. Questions about how to balance industrial, office and residential uses are among the thorny issues in the LIC rezoning debate.
More so than any of the other areas tabbed so far for rezonings under the mayor’s housing plan, LIC has dealt with the effects—good and bad—of Bloomberg-era land-use moves.
In multiple ways, the workers took on the company along the contested front between the new and old economy, and won.
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