Tracking the commitments

This tracker provides a high-level snapshot of City commitments. For detailed updates on each committee, including progress notes, click here to download our latest update summary. 

The Task Force works to provide as much transparency on progress and issues related to the commitments of the OneLIC rezoning beyond what is included in the City’s commitment tracker.

Status Overview

43 TOTAL commitments

9

Completed

18

In progress

12

Not started

4

Delayed

COMPLETION by Category

2/8

Small & Industrial Business

2/8

Sewer Infrastructure
& Resiliency

X/X

Schools & Education

X/X

Public & Affordable
Housing

X/X

Street Safety &
Transportation

2/8

Arts & Culture

3/11

Parks & Waterfront
Open Space

Commitment categories

    • Support Arts and Culture organizations

    • Support Arts and Culture Organizations through the Greenlight Innovation Fund

    • Collaborate with property owners on new waterfront esplanade

    • Create a new waterfront esplanade and nearly two acres of open space under the Queensboro Bridge

    • Support maintenance of Dutch Kills Green

    • Develop new public open space under the Queensboro Bridge

    • Construct Queensbridge Baby Park at 21st Street

    • Study the feasibility of public realm improvements around and under the Queensboro Bridge ramps from Jackson Avenue to Crescent Street

    • Renew Queensbridge Park

    • Activate Schoolyards to Playgrounds

    • Advance the Queens Community Board 2 Walk to Park Site Selection and Acquisition application

    • Boost capacity for the Hunters Point Park Conservancy

    • Renovate the Long Island City Branch YMCA

    • Support new community center with recreational space

    • Build 100% affordable housing on a city-owned site at 44-59 45th Avenue

    • Invest in Queensbridge Houses North and South

    • "Prioritize vacant unit turnover at

    • Queensbridge Houses"

    • Improve the Jacob Riis Community Center

    • Renovate the Queensbridge Houses Resident Association Office

    • Create a new wasteyard for Queensbridge Houses South

    • Mitigate rat population at Queensbridge Houses

    • Implement the Queensbridge Houses waste plumbing modernization initiative

    • Relocate NYCHA parking from Queensbridge Baby Park

    • Advance development at 44-36 Vernon Boulevard and 4-99 44th Drive

    • Complete construction at 1-50 54th Avenue

    • Finish building a school at 23-10 43rd Avenue

    • Develop a school at 5-46 46th Avenue

    • Develop elementary schools to address seat need in future years

    • Relocate the Baccalaureate School for Global Education

    • Update LIC community on school construction status quarterly

    • Complete drainage analysis and invest in needed improvements

    • Perform sewer targeted maintenance

    • Support small businesses in Long Island City

    • Upgrade Engine 260

    • Create an intermodal hub at the 21st Street Station

    • Improve connections to Queens Waterfront Greenway from LIC into Queensbridge and Astoria

    • Require alternate side parking on Queens Plaza South

    • Invest in improvements to the 44th Drive corridor

    • Improve pedestrian safety at the Queensboro Bridge landing

    • Conduct a comprehensive lighting study in the Industrial Business Zone

    • Facilitate redevelopment of DOT ramps sites as public space

    • Install an Automatic Public Toilet at Court Square