Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a $26 million investment through the Long Island Investment Fund to support five new housing developments in Nassau and Suffolk counties. The projects, representing a total investment of $467 million, will create nearly 750 new housing units, including affordable, workforce, and transit-oriented housing. Work is being led by a combination of public and private sector partners, including Empire State Development and New York State Homes and Community Renewal.
Rendering of the Grand at Baldwin, via BHC Architects.
Rendering of the Grand at Baldwin, via BHC Architects.
Awarded projects include The Preserve at South Country Road in Southampton, a $54 million development featuring 79 workforce housing units with dedicated apartments for veterans and individuals with disabilities. In Baldwin, The Grand at Baldwin will deliver 215 rental units, including 22 affordable, across from the Baldwin LIRR station. Bellport will see the development of The Alegria South, a 96-unit, 100-percent affordable housing project tailored to a distressed community.
Rendering of Carriage House, via Nord Development Group.
Rendering of Carriage House, via Nord Development Group.
In Patchogue, the $177 million Carriage House development will add 262 housing units, including 53 affordable apartments, and support infrastructure upgrades in the downtown area. One Carleton Green in Central Islip will convert underutilized land into a three-story, mixed-use building with 96 affordable units. All five projects incorporate transit-oriented or downtown-focused planning principles.
“Under Governor Hochul’s leadership, these Long Island Investment Fund awards are a game-changer for addressing our State’s housing crisis,” said New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas. “By supporting nearly 750 new homes across Nassau and Suffolk counties, including affordable and workforce housing, we’re creating opportunities for families, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to thrive in vibrant, transit-oriented communities. These projects are a critical step toward building a more equitable and accessible Long Island.”
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So many LIRR stations are surrounded by open surface lots and single-story buildings. Adding new train customers is a no brainer.
Open surface lots is a funny way to describe a commuter parking lot. Where do you recommend the train station parking lot be placed? Do you think people who ride the LIRR walk 3 miles from their home to the train station every morning?
Garage
Commuter parking can be accommodated in multistory garages, uses less footprint, and may even include retail at the ground level. It’s exciting to see new housing being developed, for commuters who’d like a central location maybe 3 blocks from rail station rather than 3 miles.
The Democrats in Albany are trying to urbanize the suburbs, because their base is urban and the suburbs are Republican.
Please stop with relating every news item to political problems. Enough !
Suburban has never meant “zero apartment buildings”
There are suburban towns in Long Island featuring apartment buildings which are approx. 100 years old. Rockville Centre, Garden City, Great Neck, Roslyn, Floral Park are examples. In Westchester, you see similar development (on prewar buildings from 1920s) in Bronxville, Mount Vernon / Fleetwood, White Plains, Rye, Hartsdale, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Pelham, New Rochelle, Larchmont, Yonkers – all places which are doing fine. Many suburbs are Republican, and many are largely vote Democratic, including very affluent locations (they are often well educated and informed voters).
Urbanization doesn’t cause people to become democrats. Democrats cause places to become urban. You’ve got it backwards. It’s not an exercise in mind control. It’s people acting on their values. Nothing sinister here.
THIS BETTER BE BUILT UNION!!!
I moved to LI from Brooklyn to have a nice neighborhood to raise my children. I managed that. We don’t need Projects on LI. We could have stayed in Brooklyn. Please think of another way to have affordable housing.