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
was hoping you’d weigh in ENY, though more on what I threw in as a totally wild guess transport example to explain why providing parking isn’t a “luxury” but more a necessity. anyay, i pointed out in my 10:43 post, i was thinking of people who don’t work in manhattan, i.e. people who have lower paying jobs in the other boroughs. it’s hard to get from borough to borough without going through manhattan (in most cases, i realize that there are some exceptions, let’s not nit pick people).
“does time warner cable service this far outreach of nyc btw?”
No…it’s Cablevision out here.
“b/c that’s the only way that they can get there in under 3hrs/4 busor subway transfers.”
Not exactly. The A train from Liberty Ave., a few blocks from here, will take you to Manhattan in about an hour. The #3 New Pennsylvania Ave. stop is also close, and will get you to Manhattan in about 1 hour. It is far out, and a car is good to have out there, but it doesn’t take anywhere near 3-4 hours to get to the city from here.
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Anyone trying to survive on a $16,000 income in this city needs all the help they can get.
the same can be said for people on 30, and 40, and 70. and i know plenty of people making 16K a year surviving in the city without any form of government assistance, manhattan even if you can believe that! the difference is they aren’t breeding and i guess have multiple roommates.
but, like i said, i really am all for helping people who need it. it’s just that sometimes i feel like it’s not an even distribution of helping people. i feel like the only people who get help are those who seem to intentionally do nothing productive.
also, im sorry if my viewpoints are a little askinder, that’s just who i am and how i feel, disjointed on various issues.
*rob*
Is this the same as a house project (e.g., The Gowanus Houses)? Those are “rental” units too, right?
I’m not being snarky here — I actually wonder if there is a distinction between the two.
agreed MM. and if the city is subsidizing the cost of green solutions, it’s better for the tenants as well as more environmentally responsible.
sparafucile – totally get your point about the A train but was thinking more for people that may have commutes not conducive to the subway / not going into manhattan. I had a friend who was a social worker comming from queens to the bronx and her husband was a teacher commuting from queens to south brooklyn. it was so much easier for them to take long crowded train rides through 3 borough. there are a lot of people who may not be working in manhattan. had another friend who was a home health care worker, her commute would have been beyond unreasonable without a car. i take 2-3 trains or 2 trains with an uncomfortably long walk to get to work and both ends of my commute are in MTA highly served areas.
Sounds like a great project. If green solutions translate into homeowners/renters spending less on energy, then that’s great all around. Anyone trying to survive on a $16,000 income in this city needs all the help they can get.
“does time warner cable service this far outreach of nyc btw”
I think it’s cablevision
This location is a few blocks from the Grant Avenue station of the A train. Granted it’s a long ride from there into the city, but it’s not four bus or subway transfers. It would be a pretty rough place to live without a car, though. This is across from Magic Johnson’s movie theater on Linden Boulevard.