The affordable housing lottery has launched for Turin HDFC, a 19-story cooperative building at 609 Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Built in 1971, the structure yields 188 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 24 resale units for residents at 165 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $135,709 to $326,205.
Construction is nearing completion on the Urban League Empowerment Center, a 17-story mixed-use building at 121 West 125th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by The Prusik Group, BRP Companies, L+M Development Partners, and Taconic Partners, the 414-000-square-foot structure will yield 170 affordable housing units, 70,000 square feet of Class A office space, and 110,000 square feet of retail area including a Target and a 28,000-square-foot Trader Joe’s on the ground floor. The development will serve as the home for the National Urban League and the Urban Civil Rights Experience Museum. Congress Builders is the general contractor for the property, which is located between West 126th Street to the north, 125th Street to the south, Malcolm X Boulevard to the east, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard to the west.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 168 West 136th Street, an eight-story residential building in Manhattan’s Central Harlem. Designed by architect Nicholas Kazalas and developed by Haussmann Development and Coltown Properties, the structure yields 27 rental units. Available on NYC Housing Connect are nine units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $107,658 to $198,250.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 811 Lexington Avenue Senior Residences, a four-story residential building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Think Architecture and Design and developed in part by Northeastern Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, the structure yields 63 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 43 units for residents at 50 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $0 to $56,500.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a multi-phase initiative to create up to 4,000 new apartments in Central Brooklyn. Known as the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, projections also anticipate the creation of more than 1,500 income-restricted homes centered on a 13-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue.
