It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC. I'm producer Amina Serna filling in for Brian today. Good morning again, everyone.

Now we turn to Brooklyn, where decades-old promise to build affordable

housing is getting yet another makeover. If you're looking for an example of the city's failure

to deliver on affordable housing, look no further than Atlantic Yards. Back in 2003, developers

promised nearly 900 units of affordable housing by May of 2025.

Yet, the rail yard between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street remains empty.

In October, a new team of developers and the State's Economic Development Authority

announced a new proposal meant to fulfill the promises of decades past and are looking

for community input once again. While the new proposal is promising 3,600 more apartments

than the original plan, they've also raised the income levels for apartments considered affordable.

With me now to talk about the details of the new proposal and explain

why this project has been breaking promises for 20 years is WMIC and Gothamist housing reporter David

Brand. Hi, David. Hey, Amina. All right, start us off with what's in the new proposal. What did developers

present to the public on Monday night? So this is Atlantic Yards

Take 3, take 4. I don't know. There's been a lot of iterations of this plan over the past 20

plus years. But this latest version from this new development team that took over officially

in October calls for a total of 9,000 units on this site.

Right now, there's about 3,200, so they want to add around 6,000 more apartments.

They're going to do that in taller towers, including two proposed towers on the lot of lots that are caddy corner to the Barclays Center where there's

right now a PC Richardson Suns and old abandoned Models that's become a basketball training

facility. So we could maybe expect to see two high rises there. And they're going to make a

percentage of those units affordable.

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