Lots Cleared for Huge Public Housing Project in Ocean Hill
Three huge lots equal in size to almost an entire block have been leveled to make way for a huge public housing project in Ocean Hill. (You can see the future plans for the site here and here.) The property was formerly the Prospect Plaza housing project, home to 1,200 people, which NYCHA emptied out…
Three huge lots equal in size to almost an entire block have been leveled to make way for a huge public housing project in Ocean Hill. (You can see the future plans for the site here and here.) The property was formerly the Prospect Plaza housing project, home to 1,200 people, which NYCHA emptied out in 2000, promising to rebuild. When we visited a year earlier, the empty, boarded-up apartment houses were still standing.
At 1776 Prospect Place, pictured above and after the jump, the demo work started in May and was signed off on in October. An application for a new six-story building with 101 apartments was disapproved this month. The building that previously stood there was 15 stories.
The area immediately around the public housing sites consists of empty lots or empty apartment buildings, adding up to about eight desolate lots on two and a half blocks between Saratoga and Howard avenues and Prospect and Sterling places, close to Eastern Parkway in Ocean Hill.
Click through to see more photos of the site and a rendering of one of the planned buildings.
City Finally Moves to Redevelop Vacant Housing Project in Ocean Hill [Brownstoner]Â GMAP
Rendering by Dattner Architects via NYY
Don’t you have to go post something about ethics in gaming journalism somewhere, Moon?
Was the permit “disapproved” or approved? Is disapproved different from rejected? Also, is this to me a mix of public housing and affordable housing?
You do a great job, Cate. And when a lazy moron like Moonface wants more info and can’t be bothered with a. looking it up him/herself and/or b. asking nicely, you don’t have to oblige him/her
Thanks for that second link and the clarification.