Rising from the Ashes, Willets Point Redevelopment Will Go Forward, City Says

Mayor Bill de Blasio struck a new deal with the original developers of Willets Point, near Citi Field, to build 1,100 apartments for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers, a school, open space and retail outlets — but no mall.Willets Point is dead. Long live Willets Point.

The $3 billion Bloomberg-era project to transform a neighborhood of broken streets and ramshackle auto repair shops across from Citi Field in Queens appeared dead in 2015, when a state court ruled that the city could not take a piece of Flushing Meadows Park for a gigantic shopping mall and garage as it had planned.

Still, bulldozers plowed over dozens of shops on the hardscrabble streets, as the city seized the land under…