Boerum Hill Public Housing Project to Get Market Rate Rentals
Boerum Hill’s public housing project Wyckoff Gardens will eventually have market-rate rentals, city officials said Wednesday. The de Blasio administration has selected NYCHA land at 3rd Avenue and Wyckoff Street as the site of the Mayor’s experimental building model that would be half market-rate and half affordable housing, reported Capital New York. A part of the Mayor’s…
Boerum Hill’s public housing project Wyckoff Gardens will eventually have market-rate rentals, city officials said Wednesday. The de Blasio administration has selected NYCHA land at 3rd Avenue and Wyckoff Street as the site of the Mayor’s experimental building model that would be half market-rate and half affordable housing, reported Capital New York.
A part of the Mayor’s controversial infill housing plan for NYCHA, the development will be built on public land leased to a private developer. NYCHA plans a 550- to 650-unit building for the site, which, according to NYCHA, has 5.1 acres of underused space — roughly equivalent to seven football fields.
Two other Brooklyn NYCHA sites — the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene and the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville — are also slated to get infill construction, as we have reported. But where the new buildings at Ingersoll Houses and Van Dyke Houses will be 100 percent affordable housing, only 50 percent of the units at Wyckoff Gardens will be.
The half-and-half development model is a part of NextGen NYCHA (PDF), an initiative to make New York’s public housing economically sustainable within the next decade — in part by building more market rate units on NYCHA land. Revenue from the market rate units will be used to make much-needed repairs in older projects, according to the plan.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing in the next 10 years. NYCHA land at a second site — Holmes Towers in Manhattan — will also be developed with the half-and-half housing model, officials said. No time line was given for the developments.
NYCHA Selects Wyckoff Gardens, Holmes Towers for New Development [Capital NY]
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Photo by Jim Henderson via Wikimedia Commons
So, does this mean will be getting our hospital and firehouse back? Ha.
What do the residents of NYCHA have to say. And I thought one of goals of Lander’s Bridging Gowanus rezoning was to use the parking lots at Wyckoff to build senior housing for NYCHA residents to free up apartments for families. Popcorn time!
Hmmm, market rate, 50/50, whatever you call it, I call it a disaster mired in bureaucracy which I will be shocked if it ever comes to fruition.
The developer actually owned that land, sold it back to the city with the intent to lease back, its actually stated in the offering that the land can be bought back from the city.
Oops that autocorrected Gallstoner.
Gallstones, I think your name is brilliant. And I agree with you.
Thanks — I’ll check it out and see what that encompasses!
My point was this is more privatizing of public assets. Naming off things which are not (yet) privatized is a poor rebuttal.
The Bloomberg and this plan is taking open space away from the project lands for private developers to reap a profit. We shouldn’t and in past haven’t relied on private $ to fund all these things.
The Brooklyn Bridge Park was BUILT with 150 plus million taxpayer dollars my friend. The private developer scheme is supposed to pay for “upkeep”, and if you followed that issue closely you would know what a scam the Park Corp is running with the books on that (um, that’s me, local residents and every local elected official who has petitioned the Park Corp to open it’s books).
If you knew the history of the piers and waterfront you would knew that we could have had a much more vast public space but for Bloomberg’s rigging the the process so his real estate cronies could get the public waterfront in the face of stiff opposition.
Charter schools are for profit private entities (backed by Hedge Funds) which receive tax dollars that otherwise would go to the public schools.
Water and sewers? Chris Christie just quietly signed a bill fast tracking the PRIVATISATION of the NJ public water system.
Why do you think that wouldn’t happen here?
“things like police, fire, garbage pickup, street sweeping, schools, parks, etc”…Um have you not noticed the country wide trend to privatize ALL of the services you mention? Here in NYC schools and parks are already being privatized with less than favorable results (ie. more cost / less service). Other cities are privatizing police and fire, garbage etc. We’ve more than started down this road here. Do you think it stops at this? And long term, what do you think happens to the low income housing next door to the “market rate” we’re giving to developers (yes giving. Like the Brooklyn Bridge Park land that was leased for 99 yrs at below market so the developers could reap a huge profit)? Used to be that along with the normal graft and patronage of the American political system, the average person at least got a sizable amount of guaranteed services in return for playing nice and being good tax paying citizens. Now…not so much, and less to come.
replying to my reply…to clarify, I could see the entire complex becoming market rate apartments or coops once you open that door, not just the new buildings. I know I’m a little cynical but I’m sure there ARE plenty of people who would love to get rid of public housing so close to multi million dollar brownstones.