PACC Keeps Busy, Breaks Ground on Quincy
A stone’s throw from the Broken Angel, the Pratt Area Community Council is building a 48-unit development for those who earn less than $26,588 a year. According to The Brooklyn Eagle (from the snippet we could see on the free portion of the site — what’s up with a local newspaper charging for content?), PACC…
A stone’s throw from the Broken Angel, the Pratt Area Community Council is building a 48-unit development for those who earn less than $26,588 a year. According to The Brooklyn Eagle (from the snippet we could see on the free portion of the site — what’s up with a local newspaper charging for content?), PACC broke ground on the 6-story, 50,000-square-foot project on Monday. Located at 15 Quincy Street, this site is the same one a reader wrote in about a couple of months ago. Check the discussion on the link below. Anyone seen any drawings?
Development Watch: Question on Quincy [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
It is asanine to argue that affordable housing should only be built in faraway neighborhoods. Affordable housing works best when mixed in throughout a stable community. I also hate it when people here invoke the term “Brownstone Brooklyn” in a snobby way–and I’m lucky enough to own a B-stone in just such a landmarked Bklyn district. (Although I WOULD argue that if you’re going to build anything at all in a historic ‘hood, you should be required to build something that looks nice and respects its surroundings–and I can’t imagine why anybody would disagree with that, anywhere.) I like diversity in my hood. A little rich, a little not-rich, owners, renters, students, different races/cultures, all working together (ideally) and caring about the hood and each other. I, too, I wish entry-level teachers and cops were paid more. I’m just asking: Is $26K REALLY the upper limit on income to be eligible for these apartments? That is, indeed, pretty low. You ask me, housing for that income level would be better if it were more scattered. 48 units is a lot concentrated working poor, and does smack of warehousing to me.
I agree with anon 116
1:33 – Exactly. Some people here are so out of touch with reality.
Many many times more people living on less than 26K in this city than living on more than 200k.
Don’t show your ignorance by making stupid comments.
Tasted space in my opinion what kind of people do you think are gonna live there ? 26 k a yr and under ? Build it in ENY not brownstone brooklyn
back to the real question people:
how can the affordable housing planned for Quincy be considered “inclusionary”
if it is located nearly two miles away from the original luxury development planned for myrtle/flatbush? what is inclusive about that?
Stop QUEEEENZ!
There is literally No part of Queens that makes the best of Brooklyn look like a Ghetto. That being said, there are parts of Queens that are so beautiful–well, it makes you want to weep!
BROOOOOOOOklyn
BrownStonerReader……only a jerk off transplant would write something like that. A real NYer knows that there are parts of Queens, that make the best part of Brooklyn look like the ghetto. Not to offend anyone else, just have to defend my boro.
And what if it were $100 per month?? Are we all praying that within five years time only those making in excess of $250K can live in Brooklyn, barely scraping by?? You ask a good question 11:36. Now get on the phone, call Bloomberg and tell him to raise the starting salaries of entry level teachers, cops, court officers, firemen and assistant ADAs.