Mayor De Blasio Announces Opening of Senior Affordable Housing Development at Essex Crossing
Mayor
With a medical center, senior center, and job training services for young adults also planned for the building,
"I am delighted that long-displaced tenants who want to come home are finally coming home and that we are making good on a decades-old promise to revitalize this important corner of the Lower
After tenement housing in the area was demolished in 1965, re-development plans were sidelined for decades. Planning work, which started under the
"As we push forward under our accelerated and expanded housing plan, we must put our seniors first. It is fitting that the first long-awaited housing development to rise on the Seward Park Urban Renewal site is for our city's seniors, and named after
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"The opening of
So far six tenants, each of who were promised they would return, have moved into the Frances Goldin apartments. Eight other returning tenants will move into the Rollins, at
The building was financed in 2015 under the mayor's Housing New York plan. The larger
"Major developments should deliver major community facilities, benefits, and investments in affordable housing," said Manhattan Borough President
"The official opening of the first building at
About
* 99 Affordable homes for seniors and named for housing advocate
* The homes are reserved for seniors with household incomes of
* NYU Langone's Joan H. and Preston Robert Tisch Center at
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- A senior center.
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- Additional community facility space for nonprofits focused on job training
* The facilities will all open this year.
"For at least 50 years she has been fighting for affordable housing on the Lower
HPD, the State's Housing and Community Renewal, Wells Fargo, the
"I couldn't be happier to return to the Lower
"As a former site tenant, I'm very pleased that we finally have affordable housing on sites left vacant for nearly 50 years," said
"As the lead community partner for
Placing a premium on up front construction of affordable housing, the de
About
* Construction has begun on all but 35 of
* When complete in 2024,
- 561 affordable apartments and condos, and a total of 1,079 new homes.
- A public park, Regal Cinemas,
- New home of the
- The Market Line: A vast bizarre-style marketplace spanning three blocks: It will offer food, fashion and cultural space, including a beer hall and gardens. The first phase will open next year, along with revitalized 77-year-old Exxex Street Market - which never closed.
Under construction:
* Rollins, at
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Market Line market
* Soon to start construction:
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"We're thrilled to celebrate the completion of the first building in
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"Affordable housing that is connected to community facilities benefits the most vulnerable New Yorkers and enriches neighborhoods," said
"Enterprise was honored to help make this component of
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