The New York Housing Authority is planning to build a 21-story apartment building on a parking lot at the Elliott Chelsea Houses at Ninth Avenue and 25th Street.
The proposed 168-unit building is part of Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan that is aimed at provided new affordable housing for middle-class families on "under-utilized" land owned by the city.
According to an article today by Peter at Curbed.com, "the various zoning changes needed to allow the scheme to go ahead are on the City Planning calendar later this month" and "if the plan gets a thumbs up, then current Elliott Chelsea residents will lose 15 parking slots."
GF55 Partners are the architects of the planned building.
Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Shaun Donovan and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chairman Tino Hernandez announced December 7, 2006 that the City is releasing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of affordable housing at four NYCHA sites located in West Chelsea, Clinton and East New York.
The development of housing at these four sites will yield 600 residential units for low- to middle-income families. This effort is the product of an innovative collaboration between HPD and NYCHA which was implemented as part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's $7.5 billion New Housing Marketplace Plan.
The West Chelsea and Clinton housing will be developed as part of the Mayor's Middle Income Housing Initiative to create up to 22,000 residential units for New Yorkers earning between $60,000 and $145,000. The East New York housing will be affordable to low- and middle-income families. Under the Mayor's New Housing Marketplace Plan, the City has financed 48,812 units of affordable housing.
"Through the Mayor's ten-year New Housing Marketplace Plan, Mayor Bloomberg is fostering unique partnerships with other City agencies, like NYCHA, to create more housing for low- and middle-income New Yorkers," said HPD Commissioner Shaun Donovan. "Over the past twenty years the City has successfully revitalized communities by developing vacant City-owned land taken through tax foreclosure. Now that this portfolio of land is nearly depleted, the Bloomberg Administration is creating
new strategies to expand our housing pipeline. By redeveloping land at NYCHA properties in East New York and the West Side of Manhattan, the City is building mixed-income communities and providing safe, quality housing for working families."
"Our partnership with HPD is consistent with NYCHA's mission to provide housing for New Yorkers," NYCHA Chairman Tino Hernandez said. "The RFP for the West Chelsea and Clinton sites is for the infill development of land at the Fulton Houses, located on 18th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, the Elliott-Chelsea Houses, located at West 25th Street and 9th Avenue, and Harborview Terrace Houses, located on West 55th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues...All of the units at the Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea will be affordable to families earning between $56,720 and $116,985 for a family of four and single households earning between $39,700 and $81,890."
The proposal significantly alters the land-use policies of the city's former urban renewal programs that concentrated on "towers-in-a-park" designs that emphasized views and open space. By filling in the open spaces of projects with new high-rise buildings, the city might be increasing population density and changing the views of many long-term residents, exactly the type of controversy that New York University is generating with its proposal to build a fourth high-rise tower at Silver Towers north of Houston Street.
The proposed 168-unit building is part of Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan that is aimed at provided new affordable housing for middle-class families on "under-utilized" land owned by the city.
According to an article today by Peter at Curbed.com, "the various zoning changes needed to allow the scheme to go ahead are on the City Planning calendar later this month" and "if the plan gets a thumbs up, then current Elliott Chelsea residents will lose 15 parking slots."
GF55 Partners are the architects of the planned building.
Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Shaun Donovan and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chairman Tino Hernandez announced December 7, 2006 that the City is releasing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of affordable housing at four NYCHA sites located in West Chelsea, Clinton and East New York.
The development of housing at these four sites will yield 600 residential units for low- to middle-income families. This effort is the product of an innovative collaboration between HPD and NYCHA which was implemented as part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's $7.5 billion New Housing Marketplace Plan.
The West Chelsea and Clinton housing will be developed as part of the Mayor's Middle Income Housing Initiative to create up to 22,000 residential units for New Yorkers earning between $60,000 and $145,000. The East New York housing will be affordable to low- and middle-income families. Under the Mayor's New Housing Marketplace Plan, the City has financed 48,812 units of affordable housing.
"Through the Mayor's ten-year New Housing Marketplace Plan, Mayor Bloomberg is fostering unique partnerships with other City agencies, like NYCHA, to create more housing for low- and middle-income New Yorkers," said HPD Commissioner Shaun Donovan. "Over the past twenty years the City has successfully revitalized communities by developing vacant City-owned land taken through tax foreclosure. Now that this portfolio of land is nearly depleted, the Bloomberg Administration is creating
new strategies to expand our housing pipeline. By redeveloping land at NYCHA properties in East New York and the West Side of Manhattan, the City is building mixed-income communities and providing safe, quality housing for working families."
"Our partnership with HPD is consistent with NYCHA's mission to provide housing for New Yorkers," NYCHA Chairman Tino Hernandez said. "The RFP for the West Chelsea and Clinton sites is for the infill development of land at the Fulton Houses, located on 18th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, the Elliott-Chelsea Houses, located at West 25th Street and 9th Avenue, and Harborview Terrace Houses, located on West 55th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues...All of the units at the Fulton Houses and Elliott-Chelsea will be affordable to families earning between $56,720 and $116,985 for a family of four and single households earning between $39,700 and $81,890."
The proposal significantly alters the land-use policies of the city's former urban renewal programs that concentrated on "towers-in-a-park" designs that emphasized views and open space. By filling in the open spaces of projects with new high-rise buildings, the city might be increasing population density and changing the views of many long-term residents, exactly the type of controversy that New York University is generating with its proposal to build a fourth high-rise tower at Silver Towers north of Houston Street.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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