Articles by Jose Hernandez

The affordable housing lottery is open for Archer Green, a 23-story mixed-use development at 92-23 168th Street in Jamaica, Queens. Designed by Edelman Sultan Knox Wood Architects and developed by Omni New York, the 552,156-square-foot building will yield 387 units. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 351 units for residents from 40 to 130 percent of the area median income, ranging in eligible income from $20,160 to $183,300.

Construction recently topped out on Coney Island III, an 11-story all-affordable residential building at 1709 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Designed by S9Architecture and developed by BFC Partners in collaboration with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD), the NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC), Citi, and Goldman Sachs, the structure will yield 420 rental units. The project is the third and final phase of the Coney Island West seaside master plan, which will contain a total of 1,242 homes. The property is located along the waterfront between West 17th and 19th Streets, directly across from Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones.