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October 23, 2007
AY-Area Affordable Housing: Made in the Shade
City officials and affordable housing advocates gathered yesterday for the official groundbreaking of Atlantic Terrace, a mixed-income co-op the Fifth Avenue Committee is developing on Atlantic and South Portland avenues. Fifty percent of the building’s units will be reserved for low-income families and 20 percent will go to middle-income earners, with prices ranging from around $83,500 to $344,500. The development, which should be complete in about two years, is being touted as the largest green affordable building in Brooklyn history and will be constructed with recycled materials. (Check out the rendering on the jump.) According to an Observer article last week, however, the fact that Atlantic Terrace is rising directly across the street from future Atlantic Yards high-rises hampered plans to include solar panels on the co-op’s roof. The shadows the planned Atlantic Yards buildings are expected to cast would have affected how the solar panels operate, according to Michelle de la Uz, the Fifth Avenue Committee’s executive director. “We would have loved to have had the solar roof, but it just didn't make any sense because of the shadows," said de la Uz.
In The Shadow of Atlantic Yards [NY Observer] GMAP
Shadows Eclipse Eco Apartments [NY Post]
Mixed-Rate Building Next to Atlantic Yards [Brownstoner]
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What shadows? All the people in the photo have sun beating down on them. Just more propaganda.
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 1:51 PM
TOO BAD THE NIMBYS CAN'T OWN THE SUN
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 2:04 PM
Um, the shadows will come after AY is built.
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 2:36 PM
too bad the selfish developers couldn't have made the easy enough changes in their plan for a solar project that pre-existed their plan.
you can be sure that Ratner was very careful NOT to cast shadows or blockviews within the condos in his plan.
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 3:01 PM
A homeless guy and his family lived in that very space in the late 1980s. The guy put up a bunch of signs advertising the then-vacant lot as an "amusement park" complete with a shopping-cart roller coaster. He was profiled in the Daily News.
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 3:36 PM
So you can make $344K a year and be considered only middle income? Pshaw...
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 8:53 PM
344K is the price of the apartment, not the income of the buyer.
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 9:50 PM
how do I apply?
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 11:23 PM
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