Mayor Adams vows to build 100K new Manhattan housing units over next decade — equal to a second UWS

Mayor Eric Adams vowed Thursday to build 100,000 new housing units across Manhattan over the next decade — adding to the roughly 900,000 dwellings already on the island.

Dubbed “The Manhattan Plan,” Hizzoner’s ambitious housing proposal would be the equivalent of creating a brand new Upper West Side, which stretches from 59th to 96th streets, or nine more StuyTown developments.

“We call it ‘The Manhattan Plan’ — a tribute to this borough’s long history as a place where families from all over the world could come to start their American Dream,” Adams said during his State of the City speech in Harlem.

Few details were provided, however, on how the city will achieve the aggressive goal of boosting the number of homes in already-packed Manhattan to a total of 1 million in the next 10 years — part of an effort to make housing more affordable for families, the mayor said.

“Over the decades, housing prices in Manhattan have gone up while working-class families have been pushed out,” Adams said from the famed Apollo Theater.

“From the brownstones in Harlem to the high-rises in Midtown, we will say ‘yes’ to more housing and ‘yes’ to a more family-friendly city,” he said.

“Helping families make rent or buy their first homes means helping them save money — and we
are determined to do just that.”

The initiative, which piggybacks off the Big Apple’s current “City of Yes” plan, seeks to review and refresh zoning across Manhattan — unlocking potential housing sites for development stretching from Inwood to the Financial District, Adams said.

Adams’ plan is set to include the administration’s Midtown South rezoning, which is already underway. 

He stopped short, though, of noting which other neighborhoods could undergo big changes.