NYC Health + Hospitals and the Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) recently announced Just Home, a forthcoming housing project for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers with life-threatening medical conditions. Located at 1900 Seminole Avenue in the Morris Park section of The Bronx, the initiative will create approximately 70 studio and two-bedroom apartments.
Permits have been filed for a ten-story affordable housing building at 242 East 106th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. Located between Second and Third Avenues, the lot is near the 103rd Street subway station, serviced by the 6 train. Ascendant Neighborhood Development is listed as the owner behind the applicants and will be developing the site with The Community Builders.
There are still three affordable housing units available via lottery at 1709 Park Place, a four-story residential building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Draft Master Engineering and developed by Gaby Uziel under 1709 Park Place LLC, the structure yields eight residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are three residences for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $62,572 to $156,130.
Demolition permits have been filed for a two-story commercial building at 537 West 59th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The 7,560-square-foot lot is owned by Project Renewal, a non-profit that offers housing and services for the homeless.
Façade installation is moving along on 77-87 Commercial Street, a 30- and 40-story two-tower development along Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by CetraRuddy and developed by Clipper Equity, the 811,000-square-foot project will yield 520 units with 298 in the taller tower and the remaining 222 in the shorter sibling. Of the total inventory, 200 homes are designated as affordable housing. The pair of 331- and 429-foot tall superstructures rise from a seven-story podium with a 300-vehicle parking garage below grade. Ray Builders is the general contractor, Hatfield Group is the façade consultant, RC Structures is pouring the concrete, and WSP is the structural engineer for the complex, which is located at the confluence of Commercial and Box Streets.
