Mihir Zaveri

Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is designating the garden as parkland, which could stymie Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in his vow to revive the fight to put affordable housing there.

When Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor, he will immediately have to confront a host of issues that have little to do with “freezing the rent,” his main housing-related pledge.

Voters will have a chance to weigh in on ballot questions concerning the housing crisis and when local elections should be held.

Before Zohran Mamdani became a state legislator, he helped South Asian New Yorkers who were in danger of losing their homes because of tax liens and job losses.

The plans, which seek to rezone parts of Jamaica and Long Island City, came up for votes as an election focused on the city’s housing crisis was nearing its end.

The city has been trying to build housing on the site of the Manhattan garden for at least a decade, but has met with fierce opposition in the community.

Mayor Eric Adams has only weeks left in office, but he can use them to appoint people with the ability to shape policy beyond his tenure.

The city’s millions of residents are crammed together, competing for space to live, play, work and rest.

Years ago, progressives defeated a plan to build headquarters for Amazon in Queens. Now a new kind of development is gaining their support.

The City Council, which would lose some power if the measures were approved, had argued that the ballot language was not clear enough to put before voters.