Abandoned NYC airport will land 3,000 new homes, Eric Adams announces in ‘housing week’ kickoff

He’s getting flush with housing.

The marshy, abandoned Flushing Airport site in College Point, Queens will land 3,000 new homes under a plan announced Monday by Mayor Eric Adams.

Construction is expected to begin in 2028, with New York City Building Trades unions providing both labor and pension fund dollars to finance the project, officials said.

“Housing is what’s needed, and this this project will rebuild and will bring energy and housing to College Point,” Adams said during an event at the site.

The announcement was part of City Hall’s “Housing Week,” which Hizzoner kicked off Monday with an “MTV Cribs”-style video of Gracie Mansion that drew cringes from X users.

Snarky posters who seized on the tour — including by pointing out the clip offered a “peak” inside, rather than the correct “peek” — also accused the mayor of trying to steal thunder from his main election rival, socialist Zohran Mamdani, whose slick TikTok videos often highlight housing and affordability.

Adams’ weeklong push to highlight his administration’s successes on housing — such as the “City of Yes” zoning change expected to build 80,000 new homes over 15 years — comes as New Yorkers face record-high rents and a housing supply crunch.

An executive order signed by Adams allowing more housing to be built on city-owned sites in part led to the Flushing Airport project.

The 80-acre lot largely reverted to wetland since the airport was decommissioned in 1984.

But the city’s Economic Development Corporation got the ball rolling on redeveloping the site by putting out a request for proposal in November.

The project will be led by city-based Cirrus Workforce Housing and LCOR Incorporated, which plan to use sustainable design elements such as mass timber construction, officials said.

Housing will be built on roughly 20 acres and be integrated into a “modern wetlands environment” with nature walks, rambles, open space vistas and wildlife habitat, according to officials.

Roughly 60 acres will be solely devoted to public parkland.

“What is going to be done here is to take 20 acres along the boulevard, create 3,000 units for the working people of New York,” said Joseph McDonnel, managing partner for Cirrus. “That’s teachers, policemen, firefighters, nurses — people who if you actually look at statistics today, some of them are commuting from the Poconos and from Pennsylvania –and to provide them dignified, high-quality housing surrounded by 60 acres of wetland that will be enjoyed not only by them but by the current residents.

“So, a win-win for everybody.”

Adams also attended a groundbreaking for the third and final phase of another development project that will bring 3,500 new residents to Coney Island total.