A rendering reveals 720 East 187th Street, a future six-story mixed-use residential building in Belmont, The Bronx. Designed by IMC Architecture, the structure will yield a total of 34,000 square feet with four affordable housing units sitting above ground-floor commercial space. The project is also known as Crotona Residence and is located at the intersection of East 187th Street and Crotona Avenue.
New York State has awarded $42 million to seven community-based organizations to create 200 scattered-site supportive housing units for adults experiencing chronic homelessness in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens. Administered by the state Office of Mental Health, the funding will support Housing First placements for people enrolled in programs such as Safe Options Support, Intensive Mobile Treatment, and Shelter Partnered Assertive Community Treatment. Awardees include Options for Community Living, Comunilife Inc., CLUSTER, Venture House, and ACMH Inc.
Last week, construction broke ground on 105 West 108th Street, a forthcoming 13-story affordable housing building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Designed by Dattner Architects and developed by The West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, the project will yield 84 permanent senior housing units for adults 62 years and older, with 40 units reserved for adults 55 and over who have experienced homelessness and are living with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder. The upcoming structure is part of phase two of the WSFSSH campus, and is being built on an interior lot by the corner of West 108th Street and Columbus Avenue.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 2700 Atlantic Avenue, a 14-story mixed-use building in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Designed by Peter Pizzimenti and developed by Joel Schwartz under the 2700 Atlantic LLC, the structure yields 227 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 60 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $35,692 to $175,000.
Construction appears to be imminent at 356 Fulton Street, an upcoming mixed-use residenital skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Developed in a joint venture between Rabsky Group and Spencer Equity, the structure is planned to yield nearly 200 condominium units, 299 rental apartments, and 20,000 square feet of commercial space. The $400 million development will rise from a site bounded by Fulton Street, Smith Street, and Red Hook Lane. It’s unclear if MdeAS Architects and SLCE Architects, the original designers, are still part of the project, which called for a 43-story, 496-foot tall, 475,000-square foot tower with 421 units of market-rate and affordable housing, and 100,000 square feet of commercial space.
