FAC's Red Hook Homes Near Completion
We’ve known for a while that the Fifth Avenue Committee was working on a large affordable housing project on Wolcott Street, but until recently we were unaware that the nonprofit was also constructing another building (smaller, but with basically the same design) a few blocks away, on Coffey Street. Work on both buildings, which will…
We’ve known for a while that the Fifth Avenue Committee was working on a large affordable housing project on Wolcott Street, but until recently we were unaware that the nonprofit was also constructing another building (smaller, but with basically the same design) a few blocks away, on Coffey Street. Work on both buildings, which will have 60 mixed-income co-ops between them, is nearly complete. About a third of the total units are in the building at 135 Coffey Street, and prospective owners for those co-ops are likely to be selected soon, before residents for the Wolcott Street building, according to an FAC spokesperson. FAC says the Red Hook homes will be the largest affordable homeownership project in Red Hook history, and most of the units will be sold to people who make less than 80 percent of the area’s median income.
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They are ugly, i hate the child guards on ever single window, it makes it look like the projects.
i do not have children in my apartment, so therefore do not need or want child guards.
How Many People Do You Think Apply For It?
There Is A Couple Of Days Left Until They Start Picking People. I want to know how the inside look.
does anyone know where I can take a look at the floor plans for the various units?
well considering prices at the crest are a half million to a million dollars, i’d say these are a tremendous success, given that they are affordable housing…
These buildings look exactly like low rise versions of The Crest on 4th Ave
Add me to the list that has often admired these buildings. I pass by the one across from the school often, and have been meaning to find out more about it. What a surprise that it is affordable housing! I agree it’s one of the best designed (at least exteriorly) apartment buildings I’ve seen in Bklyn recently.
See, it can be done. Very glad to hear they are affordable, and attractive. If only they could manage to do both throughout many parts of Bed Stuy, Bushwick, etc.
BTW, my wife and I have admired these buildings every time we passed them without knowing that they were done by a non-profit. I was very surprised to learn that today, We THOUGHT that a commercial builder had got it right.
The photograph of these buildings is not very good. Up close they have extremely welldone deco-like elements–go look at them before calling them ugly–you’ll be surprised.