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When the Department of City Planning presented its massive Long Island City housing development plan to neighborhood residents last year, it put forward an ambitious vision for the waterfront: To extend an existing mile-long esplanade by roughly another half mile to connect the neighborhood from Hunter’s Point to the south up to Queensbridge Park to the north.

But longtime Queensbridge Houses resident Daniel Taylor, 69, was frustrated to learn that the proposed open space would stop at the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, just short of the public housing comp

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