Housing & Real Estate Quiet since Sep 22 Updated Sep 22, 2026
The Sunnyside Yard platform
Mayor Mamdani wants to build a platform over Amtrak's live Sunnyside Yard rail yard in western Queens to create up to 12,000 homes, reviving an idea past plans have died on cost, including a 2020 EDC deck plan estimated at $14 billion. Mamdani asked President Trump for $21 billion in February, and the fight is now whether Washington commits money and legal authorization to build over working track.
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Sep 22, 2026 Latest
President Trump met Mayor Mamdani at Gracie Mansion, the first sitting president there since Reagan in 1981, and the two agreed to start staff-level technical talks on building a housing platform over Sunnyside Yard, with no federal funding committed. Trump said the project would need federal approvals and money but called the location great, while Council Member Julie Won said she would believe it once she saw actual funding.
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