The city is reaching out to Boerum Hill residents to find out what they want to see in two new 100 percent affordable housing developments planned for two city-owned parking lots on Nevins Street and 3rd Avenue.

Outreach for feedback on the new developments at 153 Nevins Street and 108-114 3rd Avenue begins on September 9, when reps for the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development will visit block parties taking place on Bergen, Wyckoff, Warren, and Pacific Streets, according to an HPD press release sent Friday. Next up is an open house hosted by HPD in early fall. More information is available on Nevins and Third project website, where locals can sign up for updates and give feedback about the plans via a questionnaire.

One of the developments will be for older New Yorkers and the other for families, thanks to goals established in 2022 “in collaboration with Council Member Lincoln Restler and community stakeholders,” said HPD. In total, the developments will create approximately 125 new apartments.

view of the parking lot with the tower of 9 dekalb in the background

Through the outreach process, the city will create a community visioning document which will inform its Request for Proposals from developers. Developers whose plans include more deeply affordable units and units for formerly homeless households will be given preference, HPD said.

The corner lot at 153 Nevins Street was acquired by the city in 1986, according to finance records, when it was already vacant and being used for parking, a 1980s tax photo shows. A circa 1940s tax photo shows residential buildings once stood on the site.

The site at 108-114 3rd Avenue is made up of four separate lots between a Shell service station and a medical office, which sits on the corner of Wyckoff Street. Tax photos from the 1940s and 1980s show a history similar to that of the Nevins Street lot, with the sites containing a row of houses in the 1940s that had been razed by the 1980s and replaced by parking. The city gained ownership of the sites in the 1970s, according to PropertyShark.

view of the chain link fence around the corner of nevins and wyckoff streets
The Nevins Street parking lot sits on the corner of Wyckoff

[Photos by Susan De Vries]

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