Affordable and Green in East New York
Hudson Companies (yes, they of the Third & Bond blog) announced that ground was broken yesterday at the eight-story low-income housing development at 1490 Dumont Avenue in East New York. The 176 rental apartments, made possible by the LAMP program and several city agencies, will be available to households with incomes of $16,000 to $46,000,…
Hudson Companies (yes, they of the Third & Bond blog) announced that ground was broken yesterday at the eight-story low-income housing development at 1490 Dumont Avenue in East New York. The 176 rental apartments, made possible by the LAMP program and several city agencies, will be available to households with incomes of $16,000 to $46,000, with 20 percent of the units reserved for formerly homeless tenants. The project (called the Elder Lane development) will include solar panels, bicycle and car parking, and a 6,000-square-foot enclosed, landscaped courtyard. It will also be “the first residential project in NYC to utilize a vibro-compaction system,” which, as the name implies, uses vibrations to rearrange the soil, making it more dense and less permeable. According to the press release, this saved the project $1.5 million because “the procedure eliminates the need for 50′ piles, as well as structural caps, beams, and slabs.” 1490 Dumont is being launched as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan, which hopes to preserve or construct 165,000 units of affordable housing by 2014. GMAP
that figure you stated was when i also had a second part time job at a gallery. havent been there in quite a long time unfortunately 🙁 that extra money SERIOUSLY helped. i also had it when i was paying a ton less in rent, ah well, i get your point tho MM. also why is it so far fetched that people in my circle might be making only 16K? pretty much all my old roommates in harlem (like all 5 of them at the time) made about that or less. and they werent students, one was, but the rest were working adults. hustling various ways of getting money tho. no one getting any kind of assistance, tho i now realize they all could have qualified for about 100-200 dollars worth of food stamps a month. this is such a weird topic.
*rob*
” but because i choose not to bring children into the world that i cannot afford, i would be poop outta luck to get into a building like this.”
I agree with you 100%
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Rob, these places sound like they’re in YOUR price range, actually.
if i was a “family” of four, then yes, you are correct. but because i choose not to bring children into the world that i cannot afford, i would be poop outta luck to get into a building like this.
*rob*
Rob, you’d have to be stacked like cordwood in an apartment in order to make $1,333 a month, before taxes, work out for you.
The choice to “breed” is complicated, and hopefully involves more love and joy in life than just considering money.
I’m not going to tell you who you know and don’t know, but I find it hard to believe that many people in your circle makes only $16K. If you, who I believe, told us on several occasions that you make in the high $40’s, have to sell your metrocard and eat ramen noodles in order to make it through the month, imagine pulling in only a quarter of that.
You may feel those who do nothing get more than you do, but that opinion comes from not knowing anything about the people in question, and from getting all your info from stereotypes and television. No matter how unconventional, crappy or disadvantaged your upbringing may have been, there are plenty out there who would be happy to have had such a good life, compared to theirs.
“i was thinking of people who don’t work in manhattan, i.e. people who have lower paying jobs in the other boroughs.”
Well, for one, a lot of the people who live here have lower-paying jobs in other parts of Brooklyn east from here, and in Queens and Long Island west of here. The Brooklyn people can still use the subway and the people going west can use the extensive bus network (including the private Queens buses that link to city routes). Granted, it’s not ideal, but again, you don’t NEED a car to live here. A lot of the people who live here also work at places like Kennedy airport, which is relatively close by bus.
“(called the Elder Lane development)”
Probably the ELDERT Lane development…name of a local street.
“Is this the same as a house project (e.g., The Gowanus Houses)? Those are “rental” units too, right?”
Housing projects are run by NYCHA, i.e, the city. This place, it appears, will be run privately.
Rob, these places sound like they’re in YOUR price range, actually.
Until the city is able to provide for all, stop making the unlucky/unconnected subsidize the scammers who work off the books and make like 100K.
Sorry, I re-checked the map and it’s the Euclid Ave. A train stop that’s near here. Still, won’t take you more than 1-1.5 hours to get to Manhattan.