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New York City didn’t “announce a boom.” It rewrote the rulebook that determines what is even possible  to build, where, and how fast. That’s why zoning text amendments matter more than ribbon cuttings: they quietly change the math for thousands of parcels at once. And in NYC, that quiet rewrite has a name — City of Yes . City of Yes isn’t one project, one neighborhood, or one developer. It’s a citywide zoning reset  that adjusts baseline feasibility: unit counts, allowed uses

The biggest housing reshuffles in America aren’t always announced with a flashy “rezoning map.” Increasingly, they arrive as something more technical—and more consequential: citywide zoning text amendments. These are rulebook rewrites that change what’s legal everywhere at once , turning “maybe, with a variance” into “yes, by-right” for small-to-mid intensity housing types. That’s what “gentle density at scale” really means. Not a handful of tower sites. Not a few corridor up