This will end poorly, I guarantee that in 10 years a successor to Mamdani will alter the deal, screening over New Yorkers in favor of that developer. I hope he’s at least smart enough to not give them the land that the city owns.

A city owned office building, why aren’t a majority of the units being made affordable?

They’ve been doing this for decades, this is just a new way to exploit open source projects. I remember years ago the controversy surrounding MongoDB when they changed their license because Amazon would sell MongoDB access through AWS without ever giving back to MongoDB’s open source work, and people were mad at MongoDB.

Open source projects should not be allowed to be used for profit by medium to large companies without a paying a percentage based royalty of gross revenue.