Affordable Housing Groundbreaking in East NY
In about five minutes, the groundbreaking ceremony for a 103-unit affordable apartment building at 626 Sutter Avenue at Pennsylvania Avenue a/k/a Granville Payne Avenue will get underway. The New York City Housing Development Corporation-funded building — which will go up on this vacant lot and be reserved for low-income households — will also have 19,700…
In about five minutes, the groundbreaking ceremony for a 103-unit affordable apartment building at 626 Sutter Avenue at Pennsylvania Avenue a/k/a Granville Payne Avenue will get underway. The New York City Housing Development Corporation-funded building — which will go up on this vacant lot and be reserved for low-income households — will also have 19,700 square feet of retail space. Check out the rendering on the jump. GMAP
This project can be good and bad for several reasons – I think its good for the overall developement of the nabe(better than vacant barron lots) and poor people have to live somewhere, and we have to maintain a balance in the citys budget, everyone cannot be middle or upper class – however my only concern is the quality new of residents that this project will bring to E. New York. This may drag E. New York down even further.
This project can be good and bad for several reasons – I think its good for the overall developement of the nabe(better than vacant barron lots) and poor people have to live somewhere, and we have to maintain a balance in the citys budget, everyone cannot be middle or upper class – however my only concern is the quality new of residents that this project will bring to E. New York. This may drag E. New York down even further.
Great more poor people for East New York. Can’t we mix up the neighborhood a little more? Maybe a little more yuppies and the such?
This is a government project. You and I are paying the bonds issued, if I understand their site. This is going to subsidize developers.
If you are saying this is different because of who is going to occupy it, then that just strikes me as bizzare.
This is also a big development, not as big as Ratner’s, but the same arguments apply. It’s much larger than what was there before (out of context). How big is too big? That seems pretty subjective to me.
I’m not a big fan of the eminent domain use, however.
As far as “East New York has already gone through some amazingly positive changes in the last 10 years, much of driven by the creation of new affordable housing.”
Remember, these programs are what destroyed the nabes in the first place, ask any of the old timers who moved out to LI in the first place.
great post Clinton HillBilly – I could not agree more, two Completely different animals.
First off, East New York has already gone through some amazingly positive changes in the last 10 years, much of driven by the creation of new affordable housing. Secondly, in response to JoshK’s rather knee-jerk “where’s the anti-Ratner crowd on this?” question, isn’t the answer obvious? There’s no comparison between a project to build a 7-storey apartment building on a vacant lot for low-income residents and a billionaire developer demolishing existing housing (some of which will have to be acquired through eminent domain) to erect 16 skyscrapers ranging from 35-60 storeys for new residents, of whom it is estimated 64% will have incomes in excess of $113k pa. No comparison at all.
Also creating an attarctive, sane development with retail space and other amenities will make it a more viable “project” than the traditional red brick hi-rise nightmare.
c-roy,
This is not a “govt. housing project”.
Its being built by a private developer with government subsidies–sort of like that POS Ratner is trying to build, only much less destructive.
In response to Joshk – I have lived on Brooklyn all my life and trust me no one was clamoring for apartments in fort green and the surrounding towns 10 or 15 years ago, it is only within the past 5 to 6 years that major gentrification took place there. Development take time – E. NewYork may take a bit longer but im sure in 5 to 10 years you will see some real changes.